J. Boniface Ramsey (born October 6, 1945) is an American Catholic priest who was ordained in 1973 as a member of the Dominican Order.
Ramsey was a member of the "voting faculty" that could express a formal opinion as to whether a student should be promoted to the next year.
[1] In November 2000, Ramsey wrote the Apostolic Nuncio in Washington, D.C., Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, regarding rumors of inappropriate conduct on the part of McCarrick's with seminarians.
[2] He said that "McCarrick’s behavior was viewed by many as “odd” or even “crazy,” but not necessarily immoral...The term, ‘sexual harassment,’” had not gained currency, and the seminary administrators didn’t know how to react".
When the news broke in the summer of 2018 that McCarrick's behavior with his seminarians was known to Church authorities, not only in the Vatican but apparently also by many American bishops and others, serious questions were raised as to how he could have been named archbishop of Washington (2000) and then been elevated to the cardinalate (2001).