'One strike and you're out' warning to paedophile priests

The Catholic church in the US is to adopt a ‘‘one-strike-you’re-out’’ policy for paedophile priests involved in future sex abuse case, it was decided in the Vatican today.

But Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Archbishop of Washington, said there was still some questions about whether a similar tough policy should be applied to cases that occurred in the past and have now come to light.