July 28, 2018 – Comunicato della Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, 28.07.2018

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/07/28/0548/01187.html

Yesterday evening the Holy Father received the letter in which Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington (U.S.A.), presented his resignation as a member of the College of Cardinals.

Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the cardinalate and has ordered his suspension from the exercise of any public ministry, together with the obligation to remain in a house yet to be indicated to him, for a life of prayer and penance until the accusations made against him are examined in a regular canonical trial.