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McCarrick Defrocked — Interview with Dr. Chad Pecknold, Catholic University of America
Art of Living News Maker Interview Series
2 min readFeb 17, 2019
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, I’m Paul Vogelzang, and this is episode #320.
Certainly a difficult day for all people of faith. The subject of Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, has been stripped of all rights and obligations as a member of the Catholic clergy. This has been quite a topic in our home.
In his capacity as archbishop of Washington, both popes and presidents took advice from Theodore McCarrick. No more. Officially, Theodore McCarrick has been defrocked, or laicized, a rare and severe penalty after allegations of sexual misconduct against the former cardinal were proved credible last summer.
