Senior US Catholic removed from ministry after 'credible' accusations of abuse
One of the highest ranking Catholics in the US has been asked to stop all public ministry after the Vatican found he was credibly accused of sexually abusing a teenage boy almost 50 years ago.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, DC, is now retired. He insists he is innocent after he was accused of committing abuse while a priest in New York. But an investigation by the Church found the allegations to be credible and substantiated, the archdiocese said in a statement....