By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Dec 09, 2020
What’s wrong with this picture?
Last month the Vatican released the long-awaited McCarrick Report, providing some (but not all) details about the clerical culture that protected the former cardinal, and serial abuser, Theodore McCarrick.
Last week Pope Francis named Bishop Michael Fisher, an auxiliary of the Washington, DC archdiocese, to head the Diocese of Buffalo.
The Buffalo diocese has been battered for months by legal charges involving cover-ups of sexual abuse.
Bishop Fisher comes from the archdiocese that McCarrick once headed, and served on the chancery staff under the disgraced former cardinal. He was ordained as a bishop by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who resigned after accusations that he had covered up for McCarrick and covered up for other clerics during a previous assignment as Bishop of Pittsburgh.