Donald William Cardinal Wuerl

Current Role

Former Archbishop of Washington DC
Official Web Site: http://www.adw.org/
Mailing Address: Archdiocesan Pastoral Center, 5001 Eastern Ave., Hyattsville, MD 20782; P.O. Box 29260, Washington, DC 20017, USA
Telephone: (301)853-4520
Fax: 853-5346

What Has Been Reported

• McCarrick personally lobbied for Wuerl to be his successor in Washington DC.
• Wuerl reportedly had a track record of covering up sexual abuse cases when he was Bishop of Pittsburgh.
• Pope Francis accepted Wuerl’s resignation on October 12, 2018 — 60 days after the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report was released incriminating Wuerl in the cover-up of sexual abuse.

Questions

1. The Vatican’s representative in Washington, D.C., knew about the legal settlements for McCarrick in 2004; when were you informed of them?
2. If you were informed of these settlements, did you take that into consideration when Cardinal McCarrick requested to live in different seminaries that train priests for your diocese?
3. If you did not know about them, did Bishop Joseph Tobin or his predecessors in Newark have a duty to inform you of them, given McCarrick’s living arrangements?
4. Why, near the end of the last decade, was McCarrick suddenly asked to leave the seminary and reside instead at St. Thomas Woodley Park under Father Roderick McKee?