Report: Cardinal Gregory cleared of harassment allegation
February 17, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: The Pillar, citing “sources close to the Dicastery for Bishops,” reported that a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington accused Cardinal Wilton Gregory of sexual harassment, and that a Vatican investigation subsequently exonerated Cardinal Gregory.
“An official close to the investigation” said that “the complaint was made by a Washington priest, ordained within the last ten years, who was himself under a canonical disciplinary process, after he allegedly ‘groomed’ a minor female before initiating a sexual relationship with her when she turned 18 years old.”
The Pope accepted the 77-year-old cardinal’s resignation as archbishop of Washington on January 6; Cardinal Robert McElroy, 71, will be installed as archbishop on March 11.
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