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There have been many cases of sexual abuse of children by priests, nuns, and other members of religious life in the Catholic Church. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the cases have involved several allegations, investigations, trials, convictions, acknowledgement and apologies by Church authorities, and revelations about decades of instances of abuse and attempts by Church officials to cover them up. The abused include mostly boys but also girls, some as young as three years old, with the majority between the ages of 11 and 14. Criminal cases for the most part do not cover sexual harassment of adults. The accusations of abuse and cover-ups began to receive public attention during the late 1980s. Many of these cases allege decades of abuse, frequently made by adults or older youths years after the abuse occurred. Cases have also been brought against members of the Catholic hierarchy who covered up sex abuse allegations and moved abusive priests to other parishes, whe ...
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Theodore Cardinal McCarrick
Theodore Edgar McCarrick (July 7, 1930 – April 3, 2025) was an American Catholic Church, Roman Catholic bishop and Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal who was Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, Archbishop of Newark from 1986 to 2000 and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, Archbishop of Washington from 2001 to 2006. In 2019, McCarrick was Loss of clerical state, defrocked by Pope Francis after being convicted of sexual misconduct in a canonical trial. Ordained a Priesthood in the Catholic Church, priest in 1958, McCarrick became an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Archdiocese of New York in 1977. He then became Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen, Bishop of Metuchen in 1981. From 1986 to 2000, he served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, Archbishop of Newark. He was appointed Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, Archbishop of Washington in 2000 and made a cardinal in 2001. A prolific fundraiser, he was connected to prominent pol ...
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