Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick pleaded not guilty Friday to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy nearly 50 years ago, despite a Vatican investigation that determined he sexually abused minors as well as adults.

Bishop LaTrelle Easterling responds after former campus minister and university chaplain at American University surrendered his clergy credentials and admitted to clergy sexual misconduct.

There’s still a lot of confusion among Catholics about the sex abuse crisis. And with good reason.

Only 38% of Catholics surveyed had heard of McCarrick, according to a recent survey commissioned by America Media and conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s, court records show.

A Chilean priest defrocked by the pope in 2018 for having sexually abused minors has died at 90.