Updated at 10:14 a.m. ET
The Vatican has defrocked former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, it said Saturday, making him the highest-ranking church official to date to be expelled from the priesthood for sex abuse.
A church tribunal found McCarrick guilty of "solicitation in the Sacrament of Confession and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power," the Vatican said. Pope Francis has approved the ruling and there is no possibility of appeal, the statement said.
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5 comments:
It's about damned time!!!
The Vatican is a disgrace.
Damn, wonder what it feels like to be defrocked?
The way this POPE is destroying the Catholic Church he did him a favor.
francis the commie!
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