You can find it here. I haven't read it yet and will only read the executive summary which is maybe ten pages long (whole report is 461 pages). And below it is the Wall Street Journal coverage.
REPORT ON THE HOLY SEE’S INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND DECISION-MAKING RELATED TO FORMER CARDINALTHEODORE EDGAR MCCARRICK(1930 TO 2017)
http://www.vatican.va/resources/resources_rapporto-card-mccarrick_20201110_en.pdf
The WSJ -
Such allegations against Mr. McCarrick prevented his promotion to important dioceses on three occasions, the report says. But an investigation by the papal envoy to the U.S. concluded that it wasn’t certain that Mr. McCarrick had had sex with the priests who had shared his bed. Pope John Paul named him archbishop of Washington in 2000, and made him a cardinal a few months after that.
The envoy’s 2000 assessment was based on inaccurate information provided by bishops, Tuesday’s report says. In 2019, a Vatican trial found Mr. McCarrick guilty of sexual harassment of adults as well as sexual abuse of minors. He became the first cardinal in modern times to be dismissed from the priesthood.
The McCarrick affair is one of the most important chapters in the Catholic Church’s unfolding sexual-abuse crisis. The extraordinary disgrace of a cardinal has put pressure on the Vatican to explain how it allowed the American to rise to one of the most powerful positions in the church, and to shed light on how much the present and previous pontiffs knew.
The affair threatens to cast a shadow over the record of John Paul in handling sexual abuse allegations. John Paul decided to promote Mr. McCarrick, despite the allegations against him, for reasons including the American’s explicit denial that he had ever had sexual relations with anyone, the lack of direct complaints from any victims, Mr. McCarrick’s reputation as an “exceptionally hardworking and effective bishop,” and his good personal relationship with John Paul, the report says.
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The McCarrick case has dogged Pope Francis since August 2018, when a former papal envoy to the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, publicly accused him of having ignored then-Cardinal McCarrick’s known history of sexual misconduct. Archbishop Viganò said that, after Pope Benedict XVI had imposed disciplinary measures on the then-cardinal, Pope Francis rehabilitated Mr. McCarrick by making him an influential adviser and envoy.
Pope Francis later said he couldn’t remember whether he had been informed about Mr. McCarrick’s record.
Before his downfall, Mr. McCarrick was a star among the U.S. Catholic hierarchy, both for his fundraising prowess and his sophistication about American and global affairs. He brought the Vatican millions of dollars for papal charities from U.S. donors.
After Pope Benedict, who became pontiff in 2005, was told of similar allegations against then-Cardinal McCarrick, the Vatican wrestled with how to handle the American, the report says, eventually pressing him to retire as archbishop. The Vatican asked him to avoid travel and public appearances, the report says, a request he conspicuously flouted under Popes Benedict and Francis.
Tuesday’s report says that, under Pope Francis, who was elected in 2013, Mr. McCarrick “did not act as a diplomatic agent for the Holy See, or with any official mandate from the Secretariat of State.”
Mr. McCarrick, now 90 years of age, stepped down from the College of Cardinals in 2018 after a report that he had abused a teenager in the early 1970s. Mr. McCarrick has denied wrongdoing.
American Catholics have awaited Tuesday’s report with interest since October 2018, when Pope Francis ordered a “thorough study of the entire documentation” regarding Mr. McCarrick in the Vatican’s archives.
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Much of Tuesday’s report deals with Mr. McCarrick’s harassment of adult seminarians and priests during the 1980s and 90s, when he served as bishop and archbishop, respectively, of Metuchen and Newark, both in New Jersey.
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