Cardinal Wuerl asks priests to forgive his 'errors in judgment'
Washington's Catholic archbishop has asked priests to forgive his "errors in judgment" as he faces public pressure to resign amid growing outrage over clergy sex abuse.
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Pope Francis silent on archbishop's call for him to resign
Pope Francis says he "will not say a single word" on an archbishop's call for him to resign over his handling of sexual abuse allegations against a prominent US cardinal in 2013.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington resigns after sex abuse allegation
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who once led the Archdiocese of Washington and was a force in American politics, after a decades-old allegation of sexual abuse of a teenage altar boy forced the Vatican to remove him from public ministry.
