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By CNA Staff. The Pillar confirmed that Wuerl gave at least one retreat to a group of U. McCarrick was found to have sexually abused both minors and adult seminarians and priests, and Pope Francis laicized him in Feb. But previous reporting by CNA, as well as the recent McCarrick Report , found that Wuerl was made aware in of inappropriate conduct, apparently not of a sexual nature, on the part of McCarrick involving an adult.

Though Wuerl forwarded a report of the alleged misconduct to the apostolic nuncio in Washington, D. Wuerl, 80, was appointed to lead the Washington archdiocese in May Pope Benedict XVI named him a cardinal in He was previously Bishop of Pittsburgh since Wuerl had submitted his resignation to the Vatican in upon turning 75, as is the requirement for bishops.

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