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“Hide the handsome ones”

That was what was “jokingly” said when Theodore McCarrick would visit seminaries. The McCarrick scandal revealed a fact known by few Catholic laity: seminarians have been, and still are in some places, preyed upon by faculty, staff, fellow students and even bishops, and moral laxity in seminaries is one of the causes of the sex-abuse crisis. [1]