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December 19, 2022

Fr. Pavone says Vatican didn't tell him directly he was laicized

Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life

In a live morning broadcast on Twitter Dec. 18, Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said he was not told directly by the Vatican that he has been laicized.

Published in International
February 20, 2019

Notre Dame rescinds McCarrick's honourary degree

Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington and then-Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl leave a 2006 news conference after the archbishop was introduced as the new head of the Washington Archdiocese.
SOUTH BEND, Ind., – The University of Notre Dame has rescinded the honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree it conferred on former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in 2008, becoming the latest of a growing number of schools who have rescinded honorary degrees from the defrocked former archbishop.
Published in International
June 27, 2014

Vatican laicizes former nuncio in connection to abuse allegations

Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, former nuncio to the Dominican Republic, is pictured during a 2011 ceremony in Santo Domingo. The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith found the archbishop guilty of sexual abuse of minors and has ordered that he be laicized.

VATICAN CITY - A Vatican investigation has led to the expulsion of a former Vatican ambassador from the priesthood in response to allegations of sexually abusing minors.

Published in Vatican