Theodore McCarrick

Bail was set at $5,000 for defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy at Wellesley College in the 1970s. A not-guilty plea was entered on McCarrick’s behalf during his arraignment in Dedham District Court Friday, where he remained silent. Wellesley police charged McCarrick, now 91 and living in Missouri, more than a month…

Defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is facing charges that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy at Wellesley College in the 1970s. Wellesley police have charged McCarrick, now 91 and living in Missouri, with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office confirmed Thursday. The Boston Globe was first to report the charges. McCarrick was…

The Vatican’s report into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has raised uncomfortable issues the Holy See will have to confront going forward, chief among them what it will do about current and future clergy who use their power to sexually abuse adults

Men who have made allegations of abuse by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick expressed shock, outrage and anger after an internal Vatican report revealed the scale of what was known about the clergyman’s behavior and what was ignored

Pope Francis is vowing to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offering prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick

The report says the former Washington archbishop continued to rise through the church despite leaders knowing about allegations of sexual misconduct. Pat Collins reports.

A Vatican investigation of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed multiple reports of sexual misconduct

Former Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing boys at a beach house in New Jersey in the 1980s. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

Former Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing boys at a beach house in New Jersey in the 1980s.

After formally being installed on Tuesday, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory celebrated his first Sunday Mass as the first African-American leader of Washington, D.C.’s Catholic community.

Pope Francis named Archbishop Wilton Daniel Gregory as the new archbishop of Washington, D.C., the Vatican announced Thursday.

The pope accepted the resignation of the embattled archbishop of Washington, D.C., the Vatican announced Friday.

The most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex abuse was sent to prison on Wednesday and will wait two weeks to learn his sentence for molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral two decades ago. Victorian state County Court Chief Judge Peter Kidd revoked Cardinal George Pell’s bail at the end of a sentencing hearing in a packed,...

Following the defrocking of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, survivors of sex abuse in the Catholic Church gathered with advocates to protest in favor of accountability and greater female representation in the Vatican.

Georgetown University has rescinded an honorary degree it bestowed in 2004 on then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked last week after being convicted by the Vatican of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians.

Catholics in Washington say they hope the Vatican’s decision to punish Theodore McCarrick should not be the end to how the Church handles sex abuse. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Reactions from Catholics in Washington, D.C., are pouring in following the news that Pope Francis had defrocked former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of sex crimes.

After Pope Francis defrocked former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Saturday, Catholics in Washington reacted with relief and anger. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing Confession and sexual crimes against minors and adults. News4’s David Culver breaks down how this unfolded and the meaning for the church.

The retired Vatican diplomat who accused Pope Francis of turning a blind eye to the alleged sexual misconduct of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is begging the American to publicly repent for his crimes for the good of the Catholic Church.