Cardinal Sean O'Malley says he didn't know about former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's sexual abuse of teen-age boys and young-adult seminarians and that he never saw a letter from a New York priest three years ago describing McCarrick's troubling behavior.
"Allegations regarding Archbishop McCarrick's sexual crimes were unknown to me until the recent media reports," O'Malley said in a written statement Monday. "I understand not everyone will accept this answer given the way the Church has eroded the trust of our people. My hope is that we can repair the trust and faith of all Catholics and the wider community by virtue of our actions and accountability in how we respond to this crisis."
Maine Governor Paul LePage went to a hospital in New Brunswick on Saturday after feeling "discomfort" and later was transferred to a hospital in Bangor, Maine.
