McCarrick
Proper noun
Meaning
McCarrick (plural McCarricks)
A surname from Irish.
Examples
“In the seventy years of my life,” wrote a solemn McCarrick, “I have never had sexual relations with any person, male or female, young or old, cleric or lay, nor have I ever abused another person or treated them with disrespect.”
If sacrifices had to be made in the course of serving the Lord, Mr. McCarrick and his many enablers made certain they were human ones.
McCarrick would often invite groups of priests and seminarians to the house for the weekend, typically welcoming more people than there were beds the Vatican found.
But the saga of Fulton Sheen’s beatification suggests that some bishops might have other reasons to consider asking for the McCarrick report to be postponed.
John Paul first met Mr. McCarrick in 1976.
Once influential McCarrick, who had played a key role in raising funds for the Holy See from wealthy US donors, was stripped of his cardinal’s title in 2018 and his priest’s status in 2019.