He was defrocked and died in the Vatican before facing justice.
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This month, the pope defrocked another prominent Chilean priest, the Rev.
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After the bishop was killed, the monk was defrocked, he added.
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He was named transition chair but soon after defrocked from that title.
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McGuire was removed from active ministry in 2007 and defrocked in 2008.
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Under Benedict's watch, the Church defrocked 384 priests accused of child sex abuse.
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But people are more sympathetic now that engagement with China has been defrocked.
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"We assumed he was on his way to being defrocked," Mr. Brown said.
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In September, Pope Francis defrocked — or "reduced to the lay state" — the Rev.
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Quigley was laicized (defrocked) by the Vatican in 2005 and died in 2010.
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It was the first time any cardinal has been defrocked for sexual abuse.
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In 1992, he was removed from the ministry and defrocked, according to multiple reports.
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One priest accused by McDonnell was defrocked, the other was removed from public ministry.
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The next year, the church defrocked Father Geoghan and removed him from the priesthood.
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He was the highest-ranking member of his church to be defrocked in modern times.
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The defrocked priest said he had the boy he assaulted say confession after the assaults.
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It was the first time a cardinal had been defrocked over the child abuse scandal.
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First, he says he was defrocked at Moi's insistence in 1997 and lost his collar.
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The Vatican defrocked Mr. Wesolowski in 2014, then sought to try him in Vatican City.
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Now that he has been defrocked, Mr. McCarrick loses church-sponsored housing and financial benefits.
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Under his watch, the church defrocked 384 priests who'd been accused of child sex abuse.
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He is a defrocked Irish priest who has made an occasional habit of interrupting sports events.
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Geoghan was defrocked by Pope John Paul II in 1998 after abusing at least 150 boys.
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It appeared to be the first time that a cardinal had been defrocked for sexual abuse.
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Saad was defrocked this month over what church officials called violations of monastic life, and later detained.
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He has since accepted the resignation of seven more Chilean bishops and defrocked a number of priests.
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Also last year, 2 other Chilean bishops were defrocked in response to accusations that they molested children.
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Being a defrocked priest in the Republican Party is kind of a fun job in some ways.
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The following of Seyed Aghamiri, who says temporal power corrupts, grew after a clerical court defrocked him.
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The letter comes days after Pope Francis defrocked ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, expelling him from the priesthood.
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Even the rabbi, a family friend named Cyrus Bloom, is "self-defrocked," another victim of moral restlessness.
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He has pushed out bishops in Chile and last week defrocked the American former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
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Geoghan, a then-defrocked priest, was accused of abusing 130 boys in his care over 30 years.
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In 1848, Noyes, a defrocked Yale-educated minister, founded the Oneida Community in the wilderness of New York.
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One priest accused by McDonnell was defrocked, while the other was removed from public ministry, diocesan records show.
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One of those accused priests was defrocked, while the other was removed from public ministry, diocesan records show.
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In 2017, the Diocese of Brooklyn named eight former priests who were defrocked for child sexual abuse offenses.
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The Vatican unveiled in 2014 that it had defrocked more than 800 priests since the start of the crisis.
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Amid the renewed eruption of the scandal last year, Francis stiffened the penalty against Father Karadima and defrocked him.
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Fernando Karadima, a former priest who was defrocked by the Vatican for abusing teenagers during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Signed by Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, the document was posted online just a day before Pope Francis defrocked Mr. Karadima.
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The former cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, was the first Catholic leader at that level to be defrocked for sexual abuse.
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In February, the Vatican found former cardinal and archbishop of Washington Theodore McCarrick guilty of abuse, and defrocked him.
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Francis has so far accepted seven of them but has also defrocked two Chilean bishops accused of molesting minors.
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Karadima was found guilty of sexual abuse in a Vatican investigation in 2011, and defrocked last year by the Pope.
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Capparelli was accused of groping teenage boys in the 1970s and 85033s and defrocked in 1992, according to media reports.
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Juan Barros as a bishop, despite his closeness to a notorious serial abuser who had been defrocked by the Vatican.
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He said he saw his abuser's name, and that he continued serving in parishes and schools until he was defrocked.
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It also is loath to do so for bishops, because theologically speaking, defrocked bishops can still validly ordain priests and bishops.
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The other is Meg Williams, 45, a defrocked accountant now getting by as a part-time worker in an animal shelter.
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He was one of several men who accused now-defrocked Santiago parish priest Fernando Karadima of sexually abusing them as boys.
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It was the first time a cardinal was defrocked for sexual abuse, though the scandal has tarred the church for decades.
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He was found guilty of sexual abuse in a Vatican investigation in 2011, and last month was defrocked by the Pope.
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Suspicion immediately fell on a monk known by his monastic name of Isaiah, who was defrocked by Pope Tawadros a week later.
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"His offenses are just so egregious, and he has shown no sign of remorse," she said of McCarrick before he was defrocked.
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She said it was not releasing the names of dead priests who had been defrocked because they were no longer a threat.
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McCarrick, the sixth to be disciplined, was by far the most notorious and is the only one to be laicized, or defrocked.
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In July, after the film's release in France, a church tribunal defrocked Preynat, finding him guilty of the sexual abuse of minors.
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He was, however, found guilty of sexual abuse in a Vatican investigation in 2011, and was defrocked by the Pope last year.
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The measure does not mean Phra Dhammachayo has been defrocked as neither the king nor the government has the power to do that.
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McCarrick became the first cardinal to step down in a century and the highest-profile Catholic figure to be defrocked over sexual abuse.
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In fact, the USADA didn't earn its chops until it ensnared Lance Armstrong, the now-defrocked seven-time Tour de France winner in 2012.
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Other examples include monks caught for dealing drugs and some who were defrocked for sexual relations with followers and other behavior seen as immoral.
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Last summer, McCarrick was removed from the College of Cardinals and exiled to a friary in Kansas; earlier this year, he was laicized—defrocked.
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John J. Geoghan, a defrocked priest who had been shifted among a half-dozen parishes amid accusations of abusing 130 boys over 30 years.
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Wesolowski was recalled in 2013, defrocked and arrested in the Vatican in 2014, but died shortly before his trial was due to start in 2015.
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Jacobs is actually a Christian missionary dedicated to converting Jews — that is to say, to weakening the Jewish community — and a defrocked one at that.
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In 2017, Jones beat Roy Moore, a twice-defrocked state Supreme Court Justice accused of sexual misconduct with teenagers, by a point and a half.
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Mr. Shanley was defrocked by the Vatican in 286 and convicted in 2005 of raping a boy repeatedly during the 1980s in a suburban parish.
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The only thing standing in its way is the local priest — the same man whose accusations led to a cardinal's being defrocked by the pope.
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Karadima, who has denied any wrongdoing, was found guilty of sexual abuse in a Vatican investigation in 2011, and last month was defrocked by Pope Francis.
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Apart from the eight active bishops who have resigned in Chile, last year Francis defrocked two other Chilean bishops who had been accused of molesting children.
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The defrocked monk, identified by his monastic name of Isaiah, confessed to collaborating with others to kill Bishop Epiphanius, abbot of St. Macarius Monastery, prosecutors said.
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It has defrocked priests, worked with local police and the pope has declared a "zero tolerance" where clerics could not appeal a conviction on technical grounds.
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The intrigue deepened days later when the Coptic authorities defrocked a younger monk, Isaiah, who had clashed with the bishop in the weeks before his death.
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Pope Francis last month defrocked the onetime leader of the American church after an internal investigation determined Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually molested children and adult men.
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But while more than 800 rogue priests have been defrocked and some sent to prison, diocesan and parish superiors have largely been spared sanctions and discipline.
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He had served as a confessional priest for one of two defrocked monks charged with the murder of the Bishop Epiphanius on July 29, fellow monks said.
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He was defrocked amid accusations that he had sexual relations with several women — a major violation of the precepts guiding monks&apos behavior — and had impregnated one.
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He was officially defrocked upon his return to Thailand in 2017 following a US court's ruling on an extradition request from Thailand's Department of Special Investigations (DSI).
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When Father Karadima was found guilty by a Vatican commission, he was not defrocked but ordered to spend the rest of his life in prayer and penitence.
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The Newark archdiocese said that Mr. Capparelli, who was ordained in 1980, served in several parishes and schools before he was removed from ministry and later defrocked.
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The random defrocked monk would probably not meet all the Chapin girls, who would probably never meet all the people who go to all-night Weimar Berlin parties.
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He will likely be dismissed from the priesthood, which would make him the highest profile Roman Catholic figure to be defrocked in modern times, according to Vatican sources.
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The director said he got the idea for the film after seeing a newspaper photo of a house where defrocked priests had been sent to live in penance.
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He was defrocked in 2005 amid claims he had corrupted minors, a year after an investigation into accusations that he abused a 13-year-old boy was dropped.
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One of the sources said that if he is defrocked, McCarrick will be the highest profile Roman Catholic figure to be dismissed from the priesthood in modern times.
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On Saturday, Francis defrocked Theodore E. McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, D.C., after a church finding that he had sexually abused minors and adult seminarians.
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Dominican Republic, 2014 Jozef Wesolowski, a former Vatican ambassador to the Dominican Republic was found guilty of sexual abuse of minors by a Vatican tribunal and defrocked in 2014.
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Upon his return, Wiraphon was forced to leave the monkhood, according to DSI spokeswoman Woranan Srilum, and later images, after he was defrocked, show him wearing plain white clothes.
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Three of those clerics are dead, two are in prison, one was defrocked, one has agreed to leave the priesthood, and one is still in active ministry, in Rome.
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In 2017, Jones beat Roy Moore, a twice-defrocked state Supreme Court justice who had been accused of sexual abuse and sexual assault, by a point and a half.
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This month, the pope defrocked Theodore E. McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, after a canonical trial found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians.
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The former cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, was the first Catholic leader at that level to be defrocked for sexual abuse, a turning point in the Vatican's approach toward the scandal.
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In a worldwide sex abuse scandal, which first became prominent in Boston in 2001, abusers were shunted from parish to parish instead of being defrocked and handed over to authorities.
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Dong, who says he never went to seminary and taught himself the Bible during the chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution when many clergy were imprisoned or defrocked, is a maverick.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Patriarch Filaret was defrocked and excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox church, and accused by his opponents of being a KGB agent, having a secret family and embezzling money.
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The rabbi who appeared alongside Vice President Pence and invoked "Jesus the Messiah" while mourning the victims of a Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting was defrocked more than a decade ago.
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Father Fernando Karadima was defrocked, or "reduced to the lay state" by the pope on Thursday, a move the Vatican called "exceptional" and done "for the good of the Church".
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According to the grand jury report, in 2014, the Vatican said it had defrocked about 850 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned 2,500 worldwide during the previous decade.
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Just last week, the Vatican defrocked Theodore McCarrick, an ex-cardinal and the former archbishop of Washington, who was accused of abusing at least three minors and harassing adult seminarians.
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But in recent years, especially as Pope Francis has struggled to respond to the sex abuse crisis, Benedict received a positive re-evaluation for having defrocked hundreds of abusive priests.
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He has also faced criticism for misleading statements about what he knew of the misconduct of his predecessor, former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked by Pope Francis in February.
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In that case, the bishop of Crema, had ruled that Inzoli would be removed from the public ministry while remaining a priest but a Church tribunal ruled that he be defrocked.
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But any churchgoer can lodge a complaint against openly LGBTQ clergy or LGBTQ allies, which then go before the Church's Judicial Council, which has defrocked several LGBTQ clergy in the past.
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Pope Francis defrocked Theodore E. McCarrick, above, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, after a canonical process that found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians over decades.
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Hundreds of priests have been defrocked in recent years, and all of Chile's 24 bishops offered to resign last year in the wake of allegations of sexual abuse and a cover-up.
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The Archdiocese found that allegation "credible and substantiated," and turned it over to the Vatican, which eventually expelled McCarrick from the priesthood; he's the first cardinal to be defrocked over sex abuse.
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The Vatican has defrocked disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who had served in the Catholic Church for 60 years before resigning in 2018 over accusations of child sex abuse, the AP reports.
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But the GOP has to worry about a crowded field that includes Roy Moore, the defrocked former judge who lost to Jones after facing credible allegations of sexual misconduct from decades ago.
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Details: The timetable for the sentencing isn't clear, but McCarrick could potentially be "defrocked," meaning he would no longer be a priest, and "lose his church housing and financial support," the Post reports.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A suburban Boston priest has been defrocked by the Vatican after an investigation by the Roman Catholic church found him guilty of child sexual abuse, the Boston Archdiocese said on Thursday.
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Several were later defrocked, and some priests were actually convicted in Massachusetts and sent to prison there—because, unlike Wesołowski, they were not citizens of the Vatican and therefore subject to US law.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Disgraced former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick is almost certain to be defrocked in the next few weeks over allegations against him, including sexual abuse of minors, two Vatican sources said.
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Theodore E. McCarrick, a former cardinal and the archbishop of Washington before Cardinal Wuerl, was defrocked in February after church officials found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians over decades.
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The Brooklyn diocese hid Father Lara's secret from the public, but quietly posted Mr. Lara's name on its website on Thursday morning, confirming that he had been laicized, or defrocked, for the abuse.
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Bishop Daily was named as a defendant in dozens of suits filed by people who claimed that Father Geoghan, who was later defrocked, had molested them in his three decades as a priest.
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There have also been accusations from within his own hierarchy that he covered up the misconduct of a top prelate, Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington who has been defrocked.
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If the cardinal is found to have acted inappropriately, that could lead to him losing his clerical status or being "defrocked," a severe punishment imposed by the Pope that is not subject to appeal.
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In what seems like an especially explicit episode of The Young Pope, a Catholic priest in Padua, Italy, will likely be defrocked after admitting to organizing sex parties in the rectory at his church.
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NBC is reporting that Loren Jacobs, a religious figure claiming to be a rabbi who spoke at a campaign event with Vice President Mike Pence, was defrocked by the group that originally ordained him.
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The two men are among the eight priests who the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn revealed on Thursday had been laicized, or defrocked, by the Vatican for the sexual abuse of children since 211.
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Theodore McCarrick, the first Catholic cardinal to be defrocked over sexual abuse allegations, sent over $2900,220006 to powerful clergy in the Church over almost two decades, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
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Earlier in October, the pope defrocked the former archbishop emeritus of La Serena, Francisco José Cox Huneeus, 84, and Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández, 53, who was archbishop emeritus of Iquique, following local and Vatican investigations.
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The Vatican has defrocked Theodore McCarrick, an ex-cardinal and the former archbishop of Washington, in the most significant punishment to date in the widespread sex abuse scandal that has consumed the Roman Catholic Church.
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The pope also defrocked Father Fernando Karadima, an 88-year-old Chilean priest who was accused of sexually abusing teenage boys over many years and who was at the center of the Chilean abuse scandal.
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Pope Francis has defrocked the Chilean priest at the center of the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy, invoking his "supreme" authority to stiffen a sentence originally handed down by the Vatican in 2011.
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The Vatican defrocked McCarrick in February after finding him guilty of sexually abusing children and adults, making him one of the most high-profile Church figures to be dismissed from the priesthood in modern times.
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Later in the day, the diocese posted the names of seven more former priests who were defrocked for child sexual abuse offenses, in an effort to protect children who might come into contact with them.
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If defrocked, Pell would be the highest profile figure to be dismissed from the priesthood in modern times and only the second Roman Catholic prelate to lose the title of cardinal in nearly 100 years.
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"Even if, at the end of this affair, there are no legal consequences, we have a duty by canon law to take disciplinary action," Cipolla said, who has already started the process to get Contin defrocked.
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Wuerl's predecessor, Theodore McCarrick, was defrocked after an internal investigation found him guilty of sexually abusing minors and adults during his tenure, marking the first time a cardinal was cast out of the church for abuse.
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The Chilean bishops defrocked on Saturday were accused of sexual abuse, and their punishments were announced by the Vatican soon after the pope discussed the problem of clerical sexual abuse in Chile with President Sebastián Piñera.
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The move appears to be the first time any cardinal has been defrocked for sexual abuse — marking a critical moment in the Vatican's handling of a scandal that has gripped the church for nearly two decades.
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Late last year, the recently defrocked chief of Russia's antidoping agency wrote an email to a British reporter, saying he wanted to write a tell-all book about sports doping in Russia and the country's secret laboratory.
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He was found guilty in a Vatican investigation in 2011 and ordered to live a life of "prayer and penitence", but was not defrocked at the time, the final years of the reign of former Pope Benedict.
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The fall of Theodore E. McCarrick, the once-powerful cardinal who was defrocked last week for sexual abuse of boys and young men, has inflamed accusations that homosexuality is to blame for the church's resurgent abuse crisis.
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The Church has repeatedly been criticized for its handling of the sexual abuse crisis, which exposed how predator priests were moved from parish to parish instead of being defrocked or turned over to civilian authorities around the world.
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Having narrowly failed to become Patriarch of Moscow, he led a breakaway Ukrainian church in 1992 and was duly defrocked and disgraced by his erstwhile colleagues in Moscow, some of whom he had helped to consecrate as bishops.
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The Church has repeatedly come under fire for its handling of the sexual abuse crisis, which exposed how predator priests were moved from parish to parish instead of being defrocked or turned over to civilian authorities around the world.
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Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who became the first cardinal or bishop from the U.S. to ever be defrocked in the history of the Catholic Church this week, will reportedly remain in church housing until he finds a permanent residence.
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In 21918, a feud broke out in Paris between Stanislas de Guaïta, of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose + Croix, and Joseph Boullan, a defrocked priest who was rumored to have sacrificed his own child during a Black Mass.
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MONTSERRAT, Spain (Reuters) - Tourists and worshippers visiting Catalonia's imposing mountain-side Montserrat Monastery on a sunny Sunday this month appeared to pay little heed to two men with placards demanding that the local abbot be defrocked for covering up sexual abuse.
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Francis also reinstated an Italian priest who had been defrocked by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, in 2012 after being convicted of child sex abuse, only to again remove him from ministry earlier this week, according to National Catholic Reporter.
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The New York Times reported that McCarrick's expulsion likely marks the first time a cardinal or bishop in the U.S. has been defrocked by the Roman Catholic Church and represents the first instance of a cardinal being dismissed over sexual abuse.
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Of the 120 men on the list, 53 either admitted to abusing a child, were convicted for abuse, or were involved in a financial settlement over allegations of abuse; most of these men have passed away or have been defrocked.
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The style of these suburban women may not involve turning up the political volume, but Mr. Jones can only hope they turn out in unusual numbers to express by ballot their disgust at everything they think the defrocked judge represents.
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It appears to be the first time that a cardinal or bishop in the United States has been expelled from the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church, and the first time any cardinal has been defrocked, or laicized, for sexual abuse.
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The Church has repeatedly come under fire for its handling of the sexual abuse crisis, which has exposed how predator priests were moved from parish to parish instead of being defrocked or turned over to civilian authorities in countries around the world.
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The public posting was meant to partly answer victims and their advocates who have pleaded for decades for the publication of all of the names of priests credibly accused or defrocked for child sexual abuse, to prevent the abuse of additional children.
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The decision comes as the Church continues to grapple with a decades-long sexual abuse crisis that has exposed how predator priests were moved from parish to parish instead of being defrocked or turned over to civilian authorities in countries across the globe.
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The list, which includes Theodore McCarrick, the defrocked and once-powerful US cardinal, comes as the church -- both in the United States and around the world -- wrestles a wave of scandals that have spurred criminal investigations, roiled the faithful and damaged the institution's moral credibility.
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CAIRO – Prosecutors on Saturday ordered a recently defrocked monk to be detained for four days pending an investigation into his alleged involvement in the death of the abbot of a prominent monastery in the desert northwest of Cairo, Egypt&aposs state news agency said.
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It was the site of a January riot in which prisoners used fire extinguishers and furniture to battle guards, and the place where defrocked Roman Catholic priest John Geoghan was murdered by another inmate in 2003 after being convicted of sexually abusing a boy.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has defrocked a 88-year-old Chilean priest who sexually abused teenage boys over a period of many years and is at the center of a wider abuse scandal that is still under investigation, the Vatican said on Friday.
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Mr. Owen, with a spot-on American accent, plays T. Lawrence Shannon, a defrocked priest with an appetite for underage girls who finds himself in Mexico in a new and reluctant guise as tour guide to a busload of Americans who want him fired.
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We have the Alabama race as "lean Republican," pending the resolution of a messy GOP primary that includes the seat's previous occupant, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as well as the man Jones defeated in a 20163 special election, defrocked former judge Roy Moore.
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Perhaps most famously, in the 2004 men's Olympic marathon in Athens, the Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima lost his sizable lead when he was tackled by Neil Horan, a defrocked Irish priest who has made something of a minor career out of interrupting sports events.
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Here are some of the other possibilities that didn't make the cut: DEPARTED ACTOR, DEPRESSED DRY CLEANER, DEBUNKED CAMP COUNSELOR, DETESTED EXAMINER, DEBRIEFED LAWYER, DECOMPOSED SONG WRITER, DEFROCKED DRESSMAKER, DEPOSED MODEL, DISCHARGED SHOPPER, DISCOUNTED CENSUS TAKER, DISSOLVED PUZZLER, DISBARRED BALLERINA, DISCONCERTED MUSICIAN, DISINTERESTED BANKER.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. – A man who has accused a since-defrocked priest of molesting him as a 13-year-old is asking Pennsylvania&aposs highest court to allow the release of a grand jury report into allegations of decades of child sexual abuse in six Roman Catholic dioceses.
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Image 2 of 2 CAIRO – It reads like a murder mystery set in an exotic locale: an abbot found dead in a desert monastery; a monk defrocked and arrested; another held by police and hospitalized after trying to kill himself — or did his fellow monks stage a revenge attack?
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Last month, Francis defrocked Father Fernando Karadima, the 88-year-old Chilean priest whose abuse of teenage boys is central to an abuse scandal in which some of Mr. Karadima's followers who have gone on to become powerful bishops are accused of witnessing and covering up his abuse.
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In other words, two decades after McCarrick should have been removed from his offices, defrocked and handed over to the civil authorities, he was instead wielding remarkable influence in the church … right up until the moment when a lifetime's worth of crimes were finally dragged into the light.
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Father Kingsley said that his own parish, Saint Martin de Porres, did not escape the shadow of the scandal: Christopher Lee Coleman, a predecessor of Father Kingsley's as parochial vicar, was among eight Brooklyn priests defrocked for child sexual abuse, according to a report last fall from the Brooklyn Diocese.
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The list of names included Theodore McCarrick, the former cardinal who stands to be one of the highest-profile Catholic figures in modern times to be defrocked, and a parish priest who was the first to be criminally charged as part of the New Jersey attorney general's investigation into clergy abuse.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Pope Francis has defrocked a once-prominent priest whose case has been at the center of public outrage about clerical sexual abuse and its concealment in Chile — a rare move that Vatican officials said showed his determination to tackle a scandal that has roiled the Catholic Church here and around the world.
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The other was Roy Moore, a twice-defrocked State Supreme Court justice described last month by the conservative National Review as "nothing more than a bigoted, theocratic and ignorant buffoon," who has argued variously that Muslims shouldn't be allowed in Congress, that homosexuality should be illegal, that multiple Midwestern communities are currently governed by Shariah law and that the Sept.
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"Tony Blair, who led Labour for 15 years, urges voters to deny the party a majority Love's Tory's also lost"I'm telling [Tory voters] to vote for what they believe in and what the Conservative Party has stood for all my life…What I think that means in practical terms is they either vote for defrocked Conservative candidates…or they vote for Lib Dems.
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RYAN: JOE, WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER A LONG TIME, GO AHEAD, THAT'S WHAT I GO BY. KERNEN: THEYRE SAYING IT WAS CAUSED – THEY'RE TELLING SENATOR COLLINS, MURKOWSKI AND McCAIN ALL TO TAKE A BOW FOR ELECTING THIS -- FOR GETTING THIS TWICE DEFROCKED SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, LUTHER STRANGE, BUT THEY'RE ALSO POINTING AT MITCH McCONNELL AS WELL THAT THIS IS THE KIND OF THING THAT HAPPENS TO VOTERS WHEN THEY GET TOTALLY DISGRUNTLED ABOUT THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING.
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So there is more than one way to go about this winning thing, but if the Cubs do fall down anywhere on the pitching side, it's in the defrocked starter section of their bullpen: Trevor Cahill and Travis Wood both have strong, nigh-identical ERAs of 2.28 and 2.25, respectively, but their record, along with that of the recently slump-bound Adam Warren (11 runs in 15.1 innings, including four home runs, going back to May 1) mask some underlying problems: too many walks or home runs, not enough strikeouts, or all of the above.
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