Originally published at The Catholic Thing
Why was McCarrick able to carry on the way he did? There are various theories. For one thing, McCarrick was a prodigious fundraiser for various causes. He was famous as a money machine, and he made friends along the way, both in the United States and in Rome. “Uncle Ted” also had a lot of priests serving under him, and many of them have risen through the ranks. From above him and below him, McCarrick had many protectors – just as Marko Rupnik does today. Theodore McCarrick may be dead, but his ghost haunts the Church.
