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Catholic Church bid to strip Savile honour

The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has written to the Pope to ask if Jimmy Savile's papal knighthood can be posthumously removed, the Church has confirmed.

The Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, called for the removal of the late TV presenter's name from papal honours lists to recognise the "deep distress" of abuse victims.

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