U.S. cardinal steps down amid widening sex abuse scandal

U.S. cardinal steps down amid widening sex abuse scandal https://ift.tt/2NSpNaM July 28, 2018 at 08:28PM Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/1UaOSLt

Pope Francis on Saturday accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, one of the U.S. Catholic Church's most prominent figures, who has been at the center of a widening sexual abuse scandal. McCarrick, 88, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., is the first cardinal in living memory to lose his red hat and title. Other cardinals who have been disciplined in sexual abuse scandals kept their membership in the College of Cardinals and their honorific "your eminence".

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