—June 20, 2018: Archdiocese of New York announces McCarrick has been removed from ministry after determining the allegation was "credible and substantiated." Dioceses of Newark and Metuchen, New Jersey, reveal they had previously settled two of three allegations by men who alleged misconduct while they were adults.
—July 28, 2018: Pope removes McCarrick from College of Cardinals, suspends him from exercising public ministry and requires him to live a life of prayer and penance pending outcome of a canonical trial.
—Aug. 15, 2018: Pennsylvania grand jury report details sexual abuse suffered by 1,000 children by 300 priests and the bishops who covered it up, fueling a crisis in confidence in the U.S. Catholic hierarchy.
—Aug. 16, 2018: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops asks the Vatican for a formal investigation, or apostolic visitation, into the "moral catastrophe" created by the McCarrick scandal.
—Aug. 26, 2018: The former Vatican ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, accuses Francis of being the last of among two dozen U.S. and Vatican churchmen who allegedly knew of McCarrick's sexual misdeeds but covered them up. In an 11-page screed, Vigano says he told Francis on June 23, 2013 that Pope Benedict XVI had sanctioned McCarrick, but accused Francis of rehabilitating him and calls on him to resign.
—Aug. 28, 2018: Seton Hall University in New Jersey announces it is investigating allegations of sexual abuse and harassment at its two seminaries following the McCarrick revelations and allegations he preyed on seminarians there.