Priest says he warned Vatican about Cardinal McCarrick in 2000

A New York City priest says he warned senior Roman Catholic officials about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was suspended last month over claims he sexually abused seminary students and an altar boy.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley, of Boston, apologized Monday night for brushing aside the allegations against McCarrick. Father Boniface Ramsey told CBS News' Nikki Battiste he repeatedly complained about the now retired archbishop of Washington, D.C.

O'Malley's admission is all the more startling because he is perhaps the pope's most trusted adviser on stopping sex abuse. He says he had no idea someone had complained about McCarrick and that he never saw that letter. Father Ramsey says he first heard about McCarrick's disturbing behavior as early as 1986, when he was archbishop of Newark.

"I had the impression that virtually everyone knew about it," Ramsey said. "Archbishop McCarrick was inviting seminarians to his beach house. … There were five beds … and there were six people. Archbishop McCarrick arranged it in such a way that somebody would join him in his bed."

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