pope francis accepting retired american cardinal theodore mccaric s offer to resign from the college of cardinals, as the former washington, d.c. archbishop faces sex abuse allegations. kitty logan is in london with the details. kitty. reporter: the pope formally accepted the resignation on saturday. the cardinal is one of the the most prominent in the church. the resignation letter was received on friday. historical allegations of sexual abuse date back more than 50 years, first surfaced in june. one man claims mccaric abused him when he was a teenager. another man alleges mccaric forced him into an abusive relationship when he was 11. dithe catholic church was taintd by sex abuse scandals in the past. they re now determined to clean up their image. the vet can says the pope wants to send a strong message that sexual abuse will not be tolerated. what this means is no matter
i feel as confused as i think most americans do right now. i think it feels a little bit like, you know, when you re in the supermarket and there is musak in the background, it s there, it s a constant noise but you can t quite make out the song exactly. i just want to go back to something else and do a 30,000-foot view about where we are and how we got here. none of this what we re talking about right now would have been possible but for two things. one, the gradual disillusion of faith and trust in institutions that s been happening over the last 10, 15 years. some of it by their own behavior, whether it was the catholic church covering up sex abuse scandals, sports covering up doping, obviously 9/11 and the weapons of mass destruction. some of it is that people as part of the institutions, even politicians, things are rigged, things are corrupt, right? people start to believe that. and then, so donald trump didn t invent this. this has been part of it. and then, the tribalism that
august of 2616. i am curious. women calling for a select committee to investigate theus olympic committee and usa gymnastics now, how does this scandal compare to other recent sports scandals in recent history? usa swimming and with sex abuse scandals. there is a culture that is really unsafe especially for young girls and young aths let, we have to change that. and congress investigating is a good start. thank you both for your reporting, and for being here today. thank you. breaking news, casino mobile steve wynn steps down as finance chair in wake of sexual misconduct investigation. what the move could mean to republicans he donated to and
is doing any of that looking at their refugee politics looking at what they re doing with their us territory politics to greece for example and i think that we can support that and tech can t take that any longer and i thank you so much this morning for coming on the program to share your views on the closer chair one of the chairwoman of the young socialists within the s.p.d. party here in berlin we appreciate it. pope francis has arrived in chile for what promises to be a difficult visit many chileans have turned away from the roman catholic church because of sex abuse scandals and its positions on marriage and abortion chilean president michelle bachelet welcomed francis upon his arrival and thousands lined the streets of the capital santiago to greet the pontiff but there were also protests by members of. the community and other groups opposed to the post pope s visit security has been stepped up following several attacks on churches and she lay last week. with the recent church at
the russians when it was actually president-elect trump. oops! the washington post reporter dave wiegle, let s not forget him. he tweeted from the trump rally showing lots of empty seats. didn t look good. turns out, he took the picture before the audience had actually entered the arena. cute. he did apologize later. not surprisingly, polls show the american public is losing faith in how the media are covering trump. a quinnipiac poll found 58% of american voters disapprove of the way the media covers the president and 38% approve. 53% of voters said the media focuses too much on negative stories about trump. so the media s answer today? more negative stories about trump. in an attempt to revive some slagging ratings and distract from their sex abuse scandals, the network dragged out trump a