Judge: Newark Archdiocese Can Be Held Liable for McCarrick's Misconduct

Catholic News Agency ^ | 10/1/21 | Jonah McKeown

[marshmallow]

A New Jersey federal judge ruled this week that the Archdiocese of Newark can be held financially responsible for the abuse committed by Theodore McCarrick, a disgraced former cardinal, according to one media report.

According to a report from the New York Post, District Court Judge Madeline Arleo found that the Newark archdiocese is “vicariously liable” for McCarrick’s actions.

According to the Legal Information Institute, “vicarious liability” refers to liability that a supervisory party, such as an employer, bears for the actionable conduct of a subordinate or associate, such as an employee, based on the relationship between the two parties.

McCarrick was installed as Archbishop of Newark July 25, 1986. He had served in New Jersey as Bishop of Metuchen since 1981, and before that as auxiliary bishop of the neighboring New York archdiocese since 1977.

Arleo wrote that “Despite alleged knowledge of McCarrick’s history of sexual abuse of young men, the diocese appointed McCarrick as bishop in 1981.”

In 1981, McCarrick, then an auxiliary bishop of New York, was appointed by the Holy Father as Bishop of Metuchen.

It was in 1986 that he was appointed Archbishop of Newark, again by the Holy Father.

[Ken Regis]

Good.

[usurper]

Good.

And excellent.

[O6ret]

And rightfully so.

[allendale]

The vile Mc Carrick did not exist in a cultural or political vacuum. His rotten nest is still there but with a different queen lowlife riding herd. The problem will not be solved unless all homosexuals are aggressively purged from the priesthood and the Jesuit order is disbanded.

[Falconspeed]

“since 1977...” and getting attention now. That is (2021 minus 1977) 44 years of deceit and vice. Bishop Quinn (1977-1995) was useless and focused on his personal profits rather than on church growth.