The cardinal is among several U.S. Catholic leaders implicated in the growing sex abuse scandal enveloping the church. This month, Wuerl’s name appeared in a Pennsylvania grand jury report, which ...

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 ...

Cardinal Donald Wuerl says he will ask Pope Francis directly to accept his resignation after a sweeping jury report accused him of allowing priests accused of sexually abusing children to be ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who is implicated in the sex abuse cover-up scandal. Reading this in our app? Tap + above the headline to ...

Amid unfolding sex-abuse scandals, Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl as archbishop of Washington. But the pope's gentle words and lack of condemnation angered those ...

The demands that Cardinal Donald Wuerl be dismissed as archbishop of Washington and resign from the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals are proportionate in their degree of outrage with their ...