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Cardinal McCarrick of US resigns over sex abuse scandal

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has resigned after being implicated in a sex scandal. [Photo/Courtesy]

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a prominent US cardinal who is accused of sexually abusing a teenager nearly five decades ago, the Vatican said yesterday.

Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, was removed from the ministry in June after a review board found there was “credible” evidence that he had assaulted the teen while working as a priest in New York in the early 1970s.

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