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    Vatican Defrocks Former Cardinal McCarrick, Finds Him Guilty Of Sex Abuse

    Theodore McCarrick rose to power as a cardinal and archbishop of Washington, D.C. He became the most senior Catholic Church official in modern times to lose clerical status.
    by Jacob Pinter Feb 16, 2019 2 minutes

    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. Pope Francis has approved the ruling and there is no possibility of appeal, the statement said.

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