Former
Vatican Official Calls For Pope Francis’ Resignation, Claims He
Knew About Abuse
26
August, 2018
Former
Vatican ambassador Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano released a statement
on Sunday, claiming that Pope Francis was aware of numerous abuse
allegations as far back as 2013 and specifically chose not to seek
any further action. In addition, Vigano is subsequently calling for
the Pope’s immediate resignation.
In
his statement, Vigano wrote, “In this extremely dramatic moment for
the universal Church, he must acknowledge his mistakes and, in
keeping with the proclaimed principle of zero tolerance, Pope Francis
must be the first to set a good example to Cardinals and Bishops who
covered up McCarrick’s abuses and resign along with all of them.”
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RT
says:
A
former Vatican ambassador to the US says that he told Pope Francis
about allegations of sexual abuse against a prominent priest in 2013
and claims the pontiff did nothing to act on the information.
Archbishop
Carlo Maria Vigano made the shocking revelation in a lengthy
statement released
on Sunday, one day after the pope met with survivors of clerical
abuse in Dublin, Ireland.
Vigano,
75, said he told Francis about claims of sexual abuse against
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington DC,
on June 23, 2013, shortly after he became pope. McCarrick resigned
last month over claims he sexually abused seminary students and an
alter boy.
Vigano ended
his statement with a call for the head of the Catholic church to step
down and “acknowledge
his mistakes and, in keeping with the proclaimed principle of zero
tolerance, Pope Francis must be the first to set a good example to
Cardinals and Bishops who covered up McCarrick's abuses and resign
along with all of them,” he
writes.
In
the statement, Vigano said he told Francis that the Congregation for
Bishops had a “dossier
this thick” about
McCarrick. “He
corrupted generations of seminarians and priests and Pope Benedict
ordered him to withdraw to a life of prayer and penance," Vigano
added.
The
former ambassador says the pope did not respond to his plea and
said McCarrick was left to continue his role in the church. The
former archbishop says the pope must now “honestly state when he
first learned about the crimes committed by McCarrick, who abused his
authority with seminarians and priests”.
On Saturday,
Francis met with survivors of clerical sex abuse in Ireland and
referred to people who cover up child abuse in the Catholic Church
as “caca,” a
Spanish word which the official translator interpreted as “filth
you would see in the toilet.”
“The
failure of ecclesiastical authorities — bishops, religious
superiors, priests and others — to adequately address these
repugnant crimes has rightly given rise to outrage, and remains a
source of pain and shame for the Catholic community,”the
pontiff said. “I
myself share these sentiments.”
On
Sunday, hundreds of people staged a ‘Stand4Truth’ march in Dublin
in support of victims of clerical abuse as a counter-event to
coincide with Pope Francis’ mass in the city. Protesters are
calling on the pope to apologize for abuses perpetrated by clergy and
concealed by church leaders, and for records to be passed on to a
criminal investigation
Read the full testimony HERE
Read the full testimony HERE
This
painful testimony from an elderly sexual abuse survivor has gone
viral ahead of Pope Francis' first visit to Ireland.
From 2009.
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