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Monday, August 27th, 2018

Ex-Nuncio Accuses Pope Francis of Failing to Act on McCarrick’s Abuse

Author:     Edward Pentin
Source:     National Catholic Register
Publication Date:     | AUG. 25, 2018
 Link: Ex-Nuncio Accuses Pope Francis of Failing to Act on McCarrick’s Abuse
Stephan:   I have never in my life heard a senior curia official, an archbishop no less, publicly charge the Pope with dishonesty and propose he resign. The Roman Catholic Church, I think, is in very serious trouble. Chile, Pennsylvania, Ireland, the horror stories just keep piling up.  The sexual dysfunctionality of the clergy is so pervasive it is an institutional crisis from which the church may never recover.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Credit: Edward Pentin

In an extraordinary 11-page written testament, a former apostolic nuncio to the United States has accused several senior prelates of complicity in covering up Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s allegations of sexual abuse, and has claimed that Pope Francis knew about sanctions imposed on then-Cardinal McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI but chose to repeal them.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 77, who served as apostolic nuncio in Washington D.C. from 2011 to 2016, said that in the late 2000s, Benedict had “imposed on Cardinal McCarrick sanctions similar to those now imposed on him by Pope Francis” and that Viganò personally told Pope Francis about those sanctions in 2013.

Archbishop Viganò said in his written statement, simultaneously released to the Register and other media, (see full text below) that Pope Francis “continued to cover” for McCarrick and not only did he “not take into account the sanctions that Pope Benedict had imposed on him” but also made McCarrick “his trusted counselor.”  Viganò said that the former archbishop of Washington advised the Pope to appoint a […]

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1 Comment

  1. S B on Monday, August 27, 2018 at 6:30 am

    Ahh, the church will recover. People need it (or the idea of it) too much. See article #1. Perhaps people will guard their children & themselves more carefully now.