Theodore McCarrick charged with sexual abuse
Catholic officials required the retired archbishop to stop ministry activities. McCarrick maintained his innocence.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. AP photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File.
Catholic authorities deemed “credible and substantiated” a sexual abuse allegation made against Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, D.C.
They ordered McCarrick to cease all public ministry activities following an investigation by the Archdiocese of New York to assess an account that the cardinal abused a teenager almost 50 years ago while working in that region as a priest.
McCarrick served as a bishop and archbishop in New Jersey before heading the Washington, D.C., archdiocese from 2001 until his retirement in 2006.
