Vatican Faults Many for McCarrick’s Rise, Spares Pope Francis

Vatican Faults Many for McCarrick’s Rise, Spares Pope Francis

Pope Francis reaches out to hug Cardinal Archbishop emeritus Theodore McCarrick on Sept. 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. Jonathan Newton _ The Washington Post via Getty Images

ROME (AP) — A Vatican investigation of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he slept with seminarians.

But the 449-page report determined that Pope Francis merely continued his predecessors’ handling of the predator until a former altar boy alleged abuse.

The Vatican took the extraordinary step of publishing its two-year investigation into the American prelate’s rise and fall to restore credibility to the U.S. and Vatican hierarchies, which have been shattered by the McCarrick scandal.

Francis defrocked the 90-year-old McCarrick last year after a Vatican investigation confirmed decades of allegations that the successful church fundraiser had sexually molested adults as well as children.

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