Why does Cardinal Wuerl deserve a $2 million payout?
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, formerly the power base of serial abuser 'Uncle Ted' McCarrick, is the most discredited in the United States. And it intends to stay that way. As the new Catholic publication the Pillar revealed on Wednesday, it's planning to bung $2 million in the direction of ex-Cardinal McCarrick's successor and protégé, Cardinal Donald Wuerl. And this at a time when parishes and schools all over America are facing closure, and Washington is reportedly facing 'an unfunded liability of at least $35 million'. The decision to allocate a fat chunk of money to Wuerl is astonishing. Here's some background. Wuerl was forced to resign as archbishop of Washington in 2018 after a 'lapse of memory' about his old friend's McCarrick's sexual activities.
