Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Washington, D.C., cardinal Donald Wuerl after he became entangled in two major scandals involving cover-up of sexual abuse and lost the support of many in his ...

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl from his post as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. The Vatican released a letter from the pope on Friday addressed to Wuerl in which ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., will give the commencement address at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he was once bishop of western Pennsylvania's ...

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh's bishop is speaking about the resignation of his predecessor, Cardinal Donald Wuerl. Channel 11's Courtney Brennan spoke with Bishop David Zubik just a few hours after Pope ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, a moment many victims of clerical sexual abuse had hoped would demonstrate his ...

Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of Washington DC archbishop Donald Wuerl, who has been blamed for not doing enough to deal with paedophile priests. Cardinal Wuerl, 77, had offered to ...

WASHINGTON — As the Archdiocese of Washington celebrated the opening of school with a special Mass on Tuesday, a group of teachers instead marked the occasion by calling for the removal of the capital ...

WASHINGTON -- Washington's Catholic Archbishop is out. The Pope has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl. He's another casualty of the clergy sex abuse scandal that's rocked the church.

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the embattled archbishop of Washington, will travel to the Vatican “in the very near future” to ask Pope Francis to accept his resignation, a spokesman said. In a letter to ...

The Archdiocese of Washington has confirmed that D.C. Cardinal Donald Wuerl was aware of allegations of abuse and improper conduct by former D.C. Archbishop Theodore McCarrick as early as 2004, ...

Archbishop Donald Wuerl's contretemps with the president of Georgetown University ["Archbishop calls GU invitation 'shocking,' " Metro, May 16] is an embarrassment to Catholics and non-Catholics alike ...