Matthew O’Brien - Complicit Clergy

McCarrick Stood To Personally Benefit By Securing $25 Million Papal Foundation Grant

April 16, 2019 from First Things by Matthew O’Brien

Scrutiny continues for the U.S.-based Papal Foundation, amid questions of whether some of its grant activity was motivated by a desire to secure leniency for disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick. The ongoing controversy surrounds the foundation’s decision to make an unprecedented grant to a leading Italian hospital whose former leadership had faced accusations of massive … Read more

How Cardinal Wuerl Misled the Papal Foundation

April 16, 2019April 12, 2019 from by Matthew O’Brien

In 2017, Cardinal Donald Wuerl provided false and misleading information to the board of the Papal Foundation to secure a $25 million grant for the Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata (IDI), a scandal-plagued hospital in Rome. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin requested this grant from the Papal Foundation in June 2017, on behalf of Pope … Read more