Cardinal McCarrick secretly gave nearly $1 million to group led by cleric accused of sexual misconduct

Washington Post ^ | February 17, 2020 | Shawn Boburg and Robert O'Harrow Jr.

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Cardinal McCarrick secretly gave nearly $1 million to group led by cleric accused of sexual misconduct

In the years before his removal from ministry, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick secretly gave nearly $1 million to a controversial group of Catholic missionaries and supported leniency for its founder after the Vatican punished him for sexual wrongdoing, internal church documents show.

From 2004 to 2017, McCarrick sent the Institute of the Incarnate Word dozens of checks — some as large as $50,000 — from a charitable account he controlled at the Archdiocese of Washington, according to ledgers obtained by The Washington Post.

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The Archdiocese of Washington declined to provide details about the nearly $1 million in contributions to the institute, the largest single recipient of money from McCarrick’s fund.

So much for the transparency promised by Wilton Gregory. And what has happened to that long-promised McCarrick report?

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Ping

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Bad, bad Cardinal.

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Jeez, the Catholic Church has got money burning a hole in its pockets.

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The Catholic church and the Boy Scouts.

What do these have in common that shows they are completely unhealthy?

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Related from 2018: Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is reported to have lived alongside a Maryland house of formation for members of a religious order whose founder has faced Vatican charges of sexual misconduct. St. John Baptist de la Salle is located in Chillum, Md., adjacent to Washington, D.C. The parish is staffed by the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE), and the property serves as the headquarters of the community's Province of the Immaculate Conception. The Institute of the Incarnate Word was founded in 1984 in Argentina by Fr. Carlos Miguel Buela. In 2016, the Vatican affirmed the veracity of allegations that Buela engaged in sexual improprieties with adult seminarians of his community. Buela, who retired in 2010, was forbidden by the Vatican from contact with members of the IVE, and from appearing in public.: [Cath Cauc] Cardinal McCarrick reportedly lived on IVE seminary property during retirement