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Karen Liebreich is the author of "Fallen Order: Intrigue, Heresy and Scandal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio." The Vatican is showing signs of making progress in its halting attempts to address the clerical sexual abuse scandal that has cast a shadow over the Roman Catholic Church for more than two decades. On Saturday, the Vatican announced the defrocking of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, for sexually abusing minors and adult seminarians. McCarrick was expelled from the priesthood just days before leaders of Catholic bishops' conferences around the world meet Feb. 21-24 at the Vatican for an unprecedented summit on sexual abuse. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
