Robert Herguth

Richard McClung died in February when the small plane he was piloting crashed in a community between McHenry County and Rockford. A pending lawsuit accuses McClung, a convicted sex offender, of molesting a young girl while he was a leader and member of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation in the early 2000s. The suit says church leaders knew he was a potential danger and still let him be around kids.

Bishop Ronald Hicks has been an acolyte of Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, and is one of the pope’s first major U.S. appointments since being elected as worldwide leader of the Catholic church following the death of Pope Francis.