He was also the subject of an unprecedented Vatican investigation, the results of which were released in November. The report, which took two years to compile, found that multiple officials in the U.S. and in Rome were aware of rumors and reports of his sexual misconduct with seminarians, priests and teenage boys, but either did not pass that information to superiors or chose not to look into them.

Source: Washington Post July 29, 2021 16:31 UTC