Archbishop Wilton Gregory brings his decades-long experience of fighting child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to the Washington diocese at a time when the community is reeling from a scandal-riddled past.

Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl will be elevated to the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals in November. The 69-year-old Wuerl is the second American to be named to the body of Catholic leaders who are tasked with advising and, when the time comes, selecting the Pope. Wuerl has been the District’s Archbishop since 2006, when he succeeded Theodore Cardinal McCarrick. Of course, this news is a lot more shiny than the last time that Wuerl…