‘McCarrick defrocking a clear signal abuse won’t be tolerated’

Washington: Pope Francis’s decision to defrock former cardinal Theodore McCarrick “is a clear signal that abuse will not be tolerated,” the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said Saturday. McCarrick, 88, who resigned from the Vatican’s College of Cardinals in July, is the first cardinal ever to be defrocked for sex abuse.“No bishop, no matter how influential, is above the law of the Church,” ,president of the bishops conference, said. (AFP)