SOUTH BEND (IN)
South Bend Tribune
August 3, 2018
By Caleb Bauer
The University of Notre Dame announced Thursday that it will not immediately revoke the honorary degree conferred to Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who recently resigned his position in the College of Cardinals after allegations surfaced that he sexually abused children and adults.
In late June, McCarrick was removed from public ministry, and last week Pope Francis ordered McCarrick to “observe a life of prayer and penance in seclusion,” after a New York archdiocese review board found allegations against him to be “credible and substantiated.” McCarrick is still yet to be tried in a canonical trial in Rome, but is accused of sexually abusing a teenage altar boy 47 years ago while serving as a priest in New York, abusing another 11-year-old boy and continuing the abuse for 20 years and sexually harassing and touching men seeking to become priests.
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