McCarrick Report Boniface Ramsey
For more than 30 years, Father Boniface Ramsey tried to tell any Church leader who would listen about his concerns regarding former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s inappropriate behavior with young priests and seminarians.“He certainly got the benefit of the doubt,” Father Ramsey told Our Sunday Visitor in a telephone interview a couple of days after the Vatican released its 450-page report on how McCarrick, the former cardinal-archbishop of Washington, climbed the ecclesial ladder despite well-known rumors of sexual abuse.
Father Ramsey was one of the first people to blow the whistle on McCarrick, whom the Vatican removed from the clerical state in January 2019 after the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith found him guilty of “solicitation in the sacrament of confession and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power.”