Bishop Hubbard, facing multiple claims of sexual abuse, asks

<p style="margin-bottom:11px">In a nearly unprecedented move by a bishop, a retired head of the Diocese of Albany, New York, has asked the Vatican that he be "returned to the lay state," or laicized.</p>

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