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May 28, 2019

Former secretary says prominent Church officials knew McCarrick's ministry was restricted

Msgr. Anthony J. Figueiredo, who was former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarricks' secretary for nine months in 1994-95, is pictured in a March 11, 2017, photo.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI had imposed restrictions on the public ministry of former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick in 2008, but they were not formal sanctions and were not followed strictly, even during the papacy of Pope Benedict himself, McCarrick's former secretary said.

Published in International