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 ...

WASHINGTON — When Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington learned that Pope Benedict XVI would resign, like every other Catholic in the world, he found himself thrust into an unprecedented period in ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...