Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the former Archbishop of Washington, was once the most powerful man in the American Church – second, perhaps, only to his predecessor Theodore McCarrick, who has since been exposed as a serial predator. But in October, Cardinal Wuerl resigned, after after a grand jury report alleged that he had reassigned paedophile priests during his tenure as Bishop of Pittsburgh (a claim he denied). He has since come under pressure because he heard an allegation against McCarrick in 2004 – though he says he handled it appropriately.