Disgraced D.C. archbishop moved to friary in Kansas

Theodore McCarrick, the first cardinal in U.S. history to resign due to sexual abuse allegations, will remain in church housing. But he’ll be a long way from Washington, D.C. The 88-year-old archbishop has moved to a friary in Kansas, the Archdiocese of Washington announced on Friday.

Bishop Gerald Vincke, the leader of the Diocese of Salina, Kansas, said he doesn’t know why the friary in his diocese was chosen to house McCarrick, but he has a guess: “It’s very remote,” he said by phone on Friday. “When you’re in the friary, you feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere.”

Cardinal Donald Wuerl said that he’d already gotten approval for McCarrick to move to the friary from the Rev. Christopher Popravak, who leads the Franciscan Capuchin community of friars there.