Alex Wong
Then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives for the funeral Mass of Cardinal James A. Hickey at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Oct. 30, 2004, in Washington, DC.

In October 2018, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had ordered a “thorough study” of all the documentation in the Vatican archives to “ascertain all the relevant facts” surrounding the case of Theodore McCarrick.