Former Cardinal Expelled As Pope Confronts Abuse

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A Sign That Top Prelates Are Not Immune to Severe Discipline

By ELIZABETH DIAS and JASON HOROWITZ Pope Francis has expelled Theodore E. McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Wash- ington, from the priesthood, after the church found him guilty of sex- ually abusing minors and adult seminarians over decades, the Vatican said on Saturday. The move appears to be the first time any cardinal has been de- frocked for sexual abuse — mark- ing a critical moment in the Vati- can’s handling of a scandal that has gripped the church for nearly two decades. It is also the first time an American cardinal has been removed from the priesthood. In a statement on Saturday, the Vatican said Mr. McCarrick had been dismissed after he was tried and found guilty of several crimes, TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES including soliciting sex during Saleh Raken was playing near his home in Baida, Yemen, when a land mine blew off his lower leg. Mines have killed as many as 920 civilians and wounded thousands. confession and “sins” with minors and with adults, “with the aggra- vating factor of the abuse of power.” While the Vatican has de- Critical of U.S., Hidden Calamity in Yemen’s Civil War: A Million Land Mines frocked hundreds of priests for sexual abuse of minors, few of the Spying Suspect Nearly four years after Saudi is horrendous,” said Loren Persi church’s leaders have faced se- By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Arabia plunged into Yemen’s civil Vicentic of Landmine Monitor, an vere discipline. The decision to la- war, Saudi and Yemeni command- Houthi Tactic Against independent nonprofit group. NEHIM, Yemen — Desperate icize, or defrock, Mr. McCarrick is Drifted to Iran ers say that hundreds of thou- Saudi-Led Forces “Most of the casualties we see re- “almost revolutionary,” said Kurt to break through enemy lines, the ported are civilians.” sands of unmarked land mines Martens, a professor of canon law Saudi-backed forces fighting in planted by their opponents, the A Western mine-removal com- Hurts Civilians at the Catholic University of Yemen are sending untrained sol- Houthis, have emerged as per- pany hired by the Saudis esti- This article is by Alan Blinder, Ju- America. diers to clear minefields, some- haps their most formidable de- mates that the Houthis have laid lie Turkewitz and Adam Goldman. “Bishops and former cardinals times using only their bayonets. fense. more than a million mines, more Monica E. Witt, a former United are no longer immune to punish- “I removed two and the third The hidden explosives, the com- groups and other monitors say the than one for every 30 Yemenis and States Air Force intelligence spe- one exploded,” said Sultan Ha- manders say, have helped keep minefields will leave Yemen rid- a concentration as high as that in ment,” Professor Martens said. cialist, made her way through the mad, a 39-year-old Yemeni soldier the conflict close to a standstill de- dled with buried explosives that any other country since World “The reverence that was shown in gleaming doors and majestic who lost a leg clearing mines on spite the superior air power and could kill or maim unsuspecting War II. the past to bishops no longer ap- lobby of one of Tehran’s largest the front line near Marib, an an- other resources of the Saudi-led civilians for decades before the Crouching behind a low stone plies.” luxury hotels in 2013, on her way cient city in central Yemen. He coalition. devices can all be removed, as wall over the edge of a ridge in the The expulsion of Mr. McCarrick to a conference that was all about was among more than a half dozen they have in Afghanistan, Co- district of Nehim on a recent over- is the most serious sign to date bashing American culture. The mines have also killed as soldiers waiting at a clinic in many as 920 civilians and lombia and Cambodia. cast afternoon, Brig. Gen. Mohsen that Pope Francis is addressing There, in a crowd filled with al-Khabi could almost make out the clerical sex abuse crisis, after fringe academics, Holocaust de- Marib to be fitted for prosthetic wounded thousands, according to “The scale of the problem is ex- niers and the lover of the terrorist limbs. mine removal experts. Rights ceptionally large, and the impact Continued on Page 14 Continued on Page 18 known as Carlos the Jackal, Ms. Witt at last found herself among people as critical of her country as she was. “What she G.O.P. in Bind Asylum Policies said was she had been in- As Trump Grabs Wearing Down volved in hor- rific war crimes with Billions for Wall Many at Border the Air Force,” said Kevin Barrett, a con- By CARL HULSE This article is by Jose A. Del Real, Monica Witt troversial and GLENN THRUSH Caitlin Dickerson and Miriam Jor- dan. scholar of Is- WASHINGTON — Senator lam who had an extensive conver- Shelley Moore Capito, Republican TIJUANA, Mexico — Pushed sation with Ms. Witt in the gilded of West Virginia, spent the last two beyond their limits by prolonged lobby of the Parsian Azadi hotel. weeks hammering out a deal on waits in dangerous and squalid “And she just felt really bad about federal spending and border secu- conditions in parts of Northern it.” rity with colleagues from both par- Mexico, thousands of caravan Less than seven months after ties, reassured by a sense that members who had been waiting to the Tehran conference, according Congress was finally asserting it- seek asylum in the United States to an indictment unsealed on self as a civil, stabilizing force. appear to have given up, Mexican officials said, dealing President Wednesday, Ms. Witt defected and The feeling did not last. On Fri- Trump an apparent win after a became a spy for the Iranian secu- day, President Trump mounted rity service. It was the climax of a humbling week for his immigra- one of the most serious executive radicalization that was rooted in tion agenda. branch challenges to congres- Ms. Witt’s military service and About 6,000 asylum seekers sional authority in decades, cir- that accelerated while she was in who had traveled en masse, many DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES cumventing Congress with an graduate school. The F.B.I., of them in defiance of Mr. Trump’s emergency declaration. It would around the time Ms. Witt earned Progressives object to the use of tax breaks to lure wealthy corporations like Amazon to New York. exhortations that they were not allow him to unilaterally divert bil- her graduate degree, alerted her welcome, arrived in Northern lions of dollars to a border wall and that Iran’s intelligence service Mexico in late November as part had its eye on her. presented his Republican allies on of a caravan that originated in “There weren’t warning signs Amazon’s Exit Reignites a Debate Over Growth Capitol Hill, who labored on a leg- Honduras. Since then, more than in terms of ‘go to authorities’ islative compromise, with the ex- 1,000 have accepted an offer to be warning signs,” said Cory Ellis, create the thousands of jobs that scuttled project as evidence that cruciating choice of either defend- returned home by the Mexican who knew Ms. Witt when they By PATRICIA COHEN Amazon promised to bring to the the left doesn’t understand how to ing their institution or bowing to government, the officials said. An- city. generate growth. In a tweet, Lloyd his whims. were enrolled in the same mas- The political opposition that other 1,000 have decided to stay in Blankfein, senior chairman of The president’s move left Sen- ter’s degree program at George prompted Amazon to walk away The clash has consequences far Mexico, accepting work permits ate Republicans sharply divided, Washington University. Still, he from building a corporate head- beyond New York, going to the Goldman Sachs, lashed out at pro- that were offered to them last fall, and it remains to be seen whether said, she did not hide her strong quarters in New York City fea- heart of a national debate that is gressive Democrats, labeling at the height of international con- they will act collectively to try to feelings against American foreign tured a touchstone of the progres- likely to dominate the 2020 presi- them as both “anti-progress” and sternation over how to deal with policy. “Everyone just kind of sat sives’ economic agenda: ending dential race: What is the best way “anti-Democratic.” Continued on Page 20 the growing presence of migrant and watched it.” tax policies that unfairly reward to spread prosperity? Those views feed into a power- caravans. American law enforcement and and pamper the wealthy. As Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ful, long-held narrative popular- Mr. Trump resorted on Friday intelligence officials have been But it also exposed a political fumed that some of his fellow ized by Ronald Reagan that Dem- TEPID, THEN WARM Remarks by to declaring a national emergency left to cope with the repercussions vulnerability, leaving unclear Democrats put “the state’s eco- ocratic policymakers had — as Mike Pence and Joseph R. Biden after he failed to secure funding of what several of them have pub- what alternative strategy they are nomic future” at risk, others in- then-Senator Barack Obama put it got different reactions at a securi- from Congress for a border wall Continued on Page 19 offering to encourage growth and side and outside the party saw the Continued on Page 23 ty conference in Munich. PAGE 4 Continued on Page 20

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