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Commentary: Worse than bungling, McCarrick report shows Vatican failed to take abuse seriously

(Patrick Semansky, AP file photo) In this Nov. 14, 2011,photo, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick prays during the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual fall assembly in Baltimore. On Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, the Vatican took the extraordinary step of publishing its two-year investigation into the disgraced ex-Cardinal McCarrick, who was defrocked in 2019 after the Vatican determined that years of rumors that he was a sexual predator were true.