Stika resigns
The Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee tendered his resignation more than two years after priests asked the Vatican to help their struggling diocese.
Pope Francis accepted Tuesday the resignation from office of Bishop Rick Stika, the embattled Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, who was accused in 2021 of several failures of leadership, including the cover-up of sexual assault allegations made against a diocesan seminarian.
The Vatican appointed Archbishop Shelton Fabre of Louisville to serve as apostolic…