The former cardinal and archbishop deftly managed to fend off abuse accusations for decades — and never publicly repented before his death.

Theodore E. McCarrick — the former archbishop of Washington and the highest American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church to be accused of sexually abusing minors and seminarians, a charge that stripped him of his ministry, his place in the College of Cardinals and his priesthood, reducing him to the status of a layman — has died. He was 94.