Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark commissioned this week an independent review into the results of an independent investigation he previously ordered into the fallout of the 2018 scandals surrounding Theodore McCarrick.
In a statement issued by the Archdiocese of Newark on Monday, Tobin said he had retained the law firm Ropes & Gray LLP “to conduct a comprehensive third-party review of the facts regarding the investigation and report by the Latham & Watkins law firm on behalf of Seton Hall in 2019 regarding the former Archbishop, Theodore McCarrick.”
The new independent review follows the appointment of Monsignor Joseph Reilly as president of Seton Hall University, which is an apostolate of the Newark archdiocese, last year, despite a previous task force of the university Board of Regents telling the priest in 2019 that it was recommending to Cardinal Tobin that he be excluded from university leadership positions.
Reilly was named the university’s president in 2024, despite being named in the results of the previous investigation, which concluded that during his time as rector of the archdiocesan seminary attached to the university campus, Reilly “knew of sex abuse allegations on campus” and failed to follow proper procedures.
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