Archbishop Wilton Gregory has the tough task of calming the scandal-shaken Washington archdiocese. Now the church he led in Georgia is under criminal investigation.
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, left, listens as Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory speaks on the day he was announced as the new leader of the Catholic Church in Washington.
“Washington is both a wounded church, and a vital and diverse Catholic community. What we don’t need is PTSD [from another investigation]. Hopefully we’ll avoid that. That depends on the result,” said John Carr, who worked with Gregory at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops during the 2002 crisis and who spoke out in the past year about his own childhood abuse.
The Georgia attorney general’s office did not respond to questions from The Washington Post, including an inquiry about what prompted the state to announce its investigation now. Carr told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 in a joint interview that the office had been working on putting together this investigation since last summer.
When it did, in 2002, Gregory was president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He pressed hard for a zero-tolerance standard for accused priests, which the U.S. bishops eventually enacted.
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