Former Washington D.C. archbishop, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, stood down from his position amid decades-old abuse allegations, the Vatican announced on Saturday. He had been removed him from public ministry in June. McCarrick, one of the most senior Catholic figures in the United States, sent his resignation to Pope Francis on Friday. The Pope accepted McCarrick’s resignation from the College of Cardinals the same day and ordered him to “a life of prayer and penance until the accusations made against him are examined in a regular canonical trial.” McCarrick, 88, was accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old altar boy in the 1970s and that the allegations were being investigated by the Archdiocese in New York, where he was ordained in 1958. The Vatican said the claims were “credible and substantiated.” McCarrick has “absolutely no recollection” of the alleged abuse. Since the allegations there have been others to come forward with claims that McCarrick abused them as well, according to CNN. “Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the cardinalate and has ordered his suspension from the exercise of any public ministry, together with the obligation to remain in a house yet to be indicated to him, for a life of prayer and… Read full this story
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