Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former head of the Washington Archdiocese, said on Wednesday that he has been removed from public ministry after an allegation that he sexually abused a minor was found to be credible by a review board.
McCarrick, a political force in Washington, maintains his innocence. A review board composed of psychologists, law enforcement experts, jurists, parents, a priest, and a religious sister concluded that an allegation that he abused a teenager almost five decades ago was “credible and substantiated.”
