It was reported by lots of Catholic Media that McCarrick was part of the Lavender Mafia, a homosexual network of priests and Bishops, that looked out for each other. This is why the Media did not go down this path when the sexual abuse crisis came to light back in 2001-2002. Again, most of this was young priests in their 20’s abusing teenage boys 14 to 17. So that was the angle the media went with. Nobody wanted to touch McCarrick in the media. My guess is the documentation finally got through the channels in Rome (not buried by a friend of McCarrick in Rome) and Cardinal Dolan was told to personally investigate.
The incident from 1958 would be consistent with the stuff revealed in 2001-2002, McCarrick, 28 years old grabbed a 16 year old boy inappropriately. This incident was not known among Catholic conservative media 2001-2010, etc. The incidents of him harassing seminarians was out there. However, this would bring the question of homosexual Bishops using their power to weed out orthodox heterosexual priests (if they went public) and having access to seminarians with homosexual orientation who would be ordained as priests.
What happened in 1958 was a crime and sinful, what happened with the 3 adults is sinful (not a crime). Regardless, for me it is time for good faithful priests to expose the homosexual lobby. If that means Bishops with homosexual orientation like McCarrick are exposed that have done similar things, so be it.
McCarrick must have been common knowledge among many good priests because our priest in the 1990’s told us both Cardinal McCormick and Cardinal Mahoney were practicing homosexuals. Our priest was a wonderful, orthodox priest and he was very worried about what was happening in the seminaries at that time. There obviously are a lot more in the hierarchy that need to be exposed. They need to expose these men while they are still active and not wait until a man is 87 like McCarrick.
Not really. The media portrayed it as a "pedophile" issue, hiding the homosexual nature of it, covering for their fellow fags while simultaneously promoting a change in Catholic doctrine to accept and affirm sodomy.