...December 6, 2006, I wrote to my superiors, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and the
Substitute Leonardo Sandri, that the facts attributed to McCarrick by Littleton were of such gravity and
vileness as to provoke bewilderment, a sense of disgust, deep sorrow and bitterness in the reader, and that
they constituted the crimes of seducing, requesting depraved acts of seminarians and priests, repeatedly
and simultaneously with several people, derision of a young seminarian who tried to resist the
Archbishop’s seductions in the presence of two other priests, absolution of the accomplices in these
depraved acts, sacrilegious celebration of the Eucharist with the same priests after committing such acts.
In my memo, which I delivered on that same December 6, 2006 to my direct superior, the Substitute
Leonardo Sandri, I proposed the following considerations and course of action to my superiors:
• Given that it seemed a new scandal of particular gravity, as it regarded a cardinal, was going to be
added to the many scandals for the Church in the United States,
• and that, since this matter had to do with a cardinal, and according to can. 1405 § 1, No. 2˚, “ipsius
Romani Pontificis dumtaxat ius est iudicandi”;
• I proposed that an exemplary measure be taken against the Cardinal that could have a medicinal
function, to prevent future abuses against innocent victims and alleviate the very serious scandal for the
faithful, who despite everything continued to love and believe in the Church.