Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the College of Cardinals, the Vatican said on the weekend.
The 88-year-old former Archbishop of Washington, DC, who was removed from public ministry in June following historic allegations of sexual abuse, made the offer to resign on Friday evening.
In a statement, Pope Francis directed Cardinal McCarrick to observe “a life of prayer and penance until the accusations made against him are examined in a regular canonical trial” and imposed upon him the obligation to “remain in a house yet to be indicated to him”.
