No one’s saying what was said, but that doesn’t stop us from opining

John Kerry yesterday met with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, D.C. Contrary to the drift of media reports, it was Kerry, not the cardinal, who initiated the meeting. “The senator had asked to meet with the cardinal,” explained archdiocesan spokeswoman Susan Gibbs to TAS.

Kerry, sizing up McCarrick as a genial liberal bishop willing to accommodate his renegade Catholicism, originally invited the cardinal over to his house. But Kerry ended up meeting the cardinal at the archdiocesan pastoral center, as that proved more convenient for Kerry after a speech he had given at nearby Howard University.