Ex-cardinal stripped of ecclesiastical offices, reduced to lay state
By. Stephanie Wynne
>VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Eight months after his predatory past was exposed to the world, ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick — once one of the most powerful prelates in the Church — has been laicized.
>The Holy See Press Office announced Saturday that, after decades of sexually assaulting altar boys and seminarians, McCarrick is being stripped of his ecclesiastical offices and dismissed from the clerical state.
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http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2019/02/16/0133/00272.html#en
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/mccarrick-officially-laicized