Pope defrocks ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick over sexual abuse

The Catholic Church took the extraordinary step Friday night of defrocking Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop and cardinal of Washington, after the church found him guilty of widespread sex abuse. It’s the pope’s most serious punishment yet in the clerical sex abuse scandal. Seth Doane reports.

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