Exactly one year after revelations about the sexual abuse of then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick were made public, the Church in the U.S. remains in a state of serious scandal, and Catholics remain angry and discouraged. But what's next for the Church - what happens after McCarrick - depends as much on the decisions of ordinary Catholics as it does on the policy decisions of the U.S. bishops.
McCarrick told the Washington Post in 2002 that to address the scourge of clerical sexual abuse uncovered that year, "everybody has to have a plan, everybody has to have a procedure, everybody has to have a policy."
His fellow bishops needed to begin "really tackling this in a more comprehensive way," McCarrick told reporters.
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