BBC World Service BBC World Service February 16, 2019 150000
The final appeal by Theodore McCarrick the former archbishop of Washington Archbishop Joshua Luna is one of the most respected Vatican investigators of clergy sexual abuse the decision to dismiss a bishop from the clerical state is always a very grave and serious decision which is never taken lightly but it is also a very important signal that if we're talking about accountability for bishops we are actually doing it it's not talk Choctaw will walk and talk Theodore McCarrick is the 1st cardinal to be defrocked for sexual abuse the Vatican said his crimes were aggravated by his abuse of power...