The Last Confession

On April 3, 2025, Theodore McCarrick died in quiet exile. No Mass. No eulogy. No public mourning. Rome responded through two of America’s most important bishops, who offered clinical statements about the ex-cardinal who was exposed as a serial predator after decades of sexual abuse – targeting seminarians, minors, and vulnerable clergy – shattered the Catholic Church’s moral credibility. His meteoric rise from Archbishop of Newark to global influence masked corruption, enabled by silence.