(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 23, 2015 Pope Francis (L) reaches out to hug Cardinal Archbishop emeritus Theodore McCarrick after the Midday Prayer of the Divine with more than 300 US Bishops at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on September 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. – Pope Francis has defrocked the former cardinal in a first for the Roman Catholic church over accusations American Theodore McCarrick sexually abused a teenager 50 years ago, a Vatican statement said February 02, 2019. McCarrick, 88, who resigned from the Vatican’s College of Cardinals in July, is the first cardinal ever to be defrocked for sex abuse. (Photo by Jonathan NEWTON / POOL / AFP)