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07-29-2018, 09:10 PM
http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eYETl3F.CmLlfREwCTjHXA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/59e8312536fb43418a2458067bebe8c9.jpg (https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-accepts-mccarrick-resignation-cardinal-following-sex-abuse-111155824.html)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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