Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, from the College of Cardinals, ordering him to a “life of prayer and penance” because os sex-abuse allegations. The last such resignation occurred in 1927.
McCarrick resigns
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