National Review. Vatican preparing a response
Accusations By MAIREAD MCARDLE September 10, 2018 4:15 PM Top advisers to Pope Francis said on Monday that the Vatican is preparing an official response to accusations that the pope helped cover up an …More
Accusations
By MAIREAD MCARDLE
September 10, 2018 4:15 PM
Top advisers to Pope Francis said on Monday that the Vatican is preparing an official response to accusations that the pope helped cover up an American cardinal’s sexual misconduct.
The statement from the “C-9,” the nine cardinals who advise Francis on Church matters, came on the first day of a three-day meeting with the pope, one of several throughout the year.
The Holy See’s planned response will address accusations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò — former Vatican ambassador to the United States — that Pope Francis covered up sexual abuse by now-disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
Viganò roiled the Church with his bombshell statement last month that he’d warned Francis in 2013 about McCarrick, a former archbishop of Washington, D.C., who had for years been dogged by rumors of sexual abuse of both minors and seminarians. More than two dozen other current and former Vatican officials also covered up for McCarrick, Viganò …More
By MAIREAD MCARDLE
September 10, 2018 4:15 PM
Top advisers to Pope Francis said on Monday that the Vatican is preparing an official response to accusations that the pope helped cover up an American cardinal’s sexual misconduct.
The statement from the “C-9,” the nine cardinals who advise Francis on Church matters, came on the first day of a three-day meeting with the pope, one of several throughout the year.
The Holy See’s planned response will address accusations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò — former Vatican ambassador to the United States — that Pope Francis covered up sexual abuse by now-disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
Viganò roiled the Church with his bombshell statement last month that he’d warned Francis in 2013 about McCarrick, a former archbishop of Washington, D.C., who had for years been dogged by rumors of sexual abuse of both minors and seminarians. More than two dozen other current and former Vatican officials also covered up for McCarrick, Viganò …More
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Let me guess the contents of the response:
Blah blah blah . . . Merely rumors . . . blah blah blah . . . Mercy . . . blah blah blah . . . Everyone was doing it . . . blah blah blah . . . Obviously,it is a vendetta by Vigano' because he was fired . . . blah blah blah . . . Conspiracy by those opposing reform . . . blah blah blah . . . McQueerick is no longer a Cardinal and is awaiting trial . . . …More
Let me guess the contents of the response:
Blah blah blah . . . Merely rumors . . . blah blah blah . . . Mercy . . . blah blah blah . . . Everyone was doing it . . . blah blah blah . . . Obviously,it is a vendetta by Vigano' because he was fired . . . blah blah blah . . . Conspiracy by those opposing reform . . . blah blah blah . . . McQueerick is no longer a Cardinal and is awaiting trial . . . blah blah blah . . .
It must be kept in mind that the head of the C-9 is the corrupt Maradiaga, a nobody from nowhere, who wants to save his own arse.
Blah blah blah . . . Merely rumors . . . blah blah blah . . . Mercy . . . blah blah blah . . . Everyone was doing it . . . blah blah blah . . . Obviously,it is a vendetta by Vigano' because he was fired . . . blah blah blah . . . Conspiracy by those opposing reform . . . blah blah blah . . . McQueerick is no longer a Cardinal and is awaiting trial . . . blah blah blah . . .
It must be kept in mind that the head of the C-9 is the corrupt Maradiaga, a nobody from nowhere, who wants to save his own arse.