In an extraordinary 11-page written testament, one which the NYT’s Ross Douthat called a “truly historic bombshell”, a former papal nunco, or Vatican ambassador, to the US, it does what many have called for, and offers testimony concerning “who in the hierarchy knew what, and when,” about the crimes of Cardinal McCarrick. The testimony implicates a host of high-ranking churchmen. And the pope.
Annnnnd in the evening's *other* news, this document is quite possibly a truly historic bombshell in the life of the Roman Catholic Church. https://t.co/cxY3xNi76g
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) August 26, 2018
Vigano said that he told Pope Francis in 2013 about allegations of sexual abuse against a prominent priest — and that Francis took no action. Now, the former official, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, 77, is calling for Francis to step down.
Vigano made the allegations in a lengthy statement that concludes with a call for Francis’ resignation:
“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.”
The former Vatican official, 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 then said in his written statement 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.” Vigano said that the former archbishop of Washington advised the Pope to appoint a number of bishops in the United States, including Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago and Joseph Tobin of Newark.
CBS News spoke by telephone to Vigano, who confirmed he wrote the statement and said he was speaking out now “to combat the grave situation in the church, to protect the church and also to stop future abuse.” He told CBS News producer Anna Matranga that he had no agenda and was stating facts.
Vigano, who retired in 2016 at age 75, described an exchange with Francis on June 23, 2013, shortly after he became pope, about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., who resigned last month over claims he sexually abused seminary students and an altar boy.
Vigano writes that he told Francis about the allegations: “Holy Father, I don’t know if you know Cardinal McCarrick, but if you ask the Congregation for Bishops there is a dossier this thick about him. He corrupted generations of seminarians and priests and Pope Benedict ordered him to withdraw to a life of prayer and penance.”
Vigano writes the pope did not respond to the statement, and McCarrick continued in his role as a public figure for the church.
“Pope Francis has repeatedly asked for total transparency in the Church. He must honestly state when he first learned about the crimes committed by McCarrick, who abused his authority with seminarians and priests. In any case, the Pope learned about it from me on June 23, 2013 and continued to cover him.”
Pope Francis addressed the sex abuse scandal on Saturday in comments made in Dublin. “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,” he said. “I myself share these sentiments.”
Pope Francis accepted McCarrick’s resignation on July 28. McCarrick has maintained his innocence, but this month, a Pennsylvania grand jury issued a report that said more than 300 priests abused more than 1,000 children, and likely thousands more, over seven decades.
Father Boniface Ramsey of New York told CBS News this month that he repeatedly complained about McCarrick and heard about his disturbing behavior as early as 1986.
Nearly 100 of the accused clergy are from the Pittsburgh diocese alone, where Donald Wuerl, the current cardinal of Washington, D.C., was the bishop for 18 years.
In his statement, Vigano wrote that Wuerl also knew about McCarrick. “His recent statements that he knew nothing about it … are absolutely laughable. The cardinal lies shamelessly,” Vigano wrote.
In an interview with CBS News correspondent Nikki Battiste before the grand jury report, Wuerl said that he was quick to deal with allegations and that he was not aware of any rumors about McCarrick.
“If there were allegations, we dealt with them immediately,” he said. “All the time that [McCarrick] was here and certainly all the time that I’ve been here, there was never any news. If I could tell you no one ever came to me and said this person did this to me. No one. No one. And remember, we were just talking about Pittsburgh. I was in Pittsburgh…we weren’t following the rumors of different parts of the country.”
Wuerl also suggested to CBS News that McCarrick had paid a price for his actions. “He has resigned and his resignation has been accepted. And he’s been told to stay in seclusion…that’s a pretty substantial penalty to be paying.”
Vigano’s statement calls on the church to take action.
“To restore the beauty of holiness to the face of the Bride of Christ — so tremendously disfigured by so many abominable crimes, if we truly want to free the Church from the fetid swamp into which she has fallen, we must have the courage to tear down the culture of secrecy and publicly confess the truths that we have kept hidden.”
As Douthat concludes, “This is either an extraordinary and vicious slander or an act of revelation that should be the undoing of just about every figure mentioned in its pages. It has an apocalyptic feel either way.”
His full testimony is below (pdf link)
Testimonyxcmvx Xenglish Corrected Final Version by Zerohedge on Scribd
Noose.
castrate then noose
Yes, the firing squad and guillotine must be reserved for more honorable folks.
Nothing will happen.
If not this life, then maybe the next one. As far as I know, after death, there’s no statute of limitations on degeneracy – and if you think they’ll get off scot-free, think again.
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” – KJV
These words are attributed to the heretic Jewish carpenter Himself. Me, I’d rather burn the b@$tards with fire.
KJV is inaccurate. It’s all ESV these days.
FFS
Because the quote isn’t written in modern style to suit you, it’s inaccurate?
Are you being an idiot on purpose or too stupid to recognize an older, classical writing style that’s still in print?
““We have over 230 priests that we know of that have been sexually abusive in this area,” she said of her accounting of those who have been accused. “And our population centers are much smaller. So it details that there is an even greater issue in the Kansas City, St. Louis, Missouri areas and the Archdiocese of Kansas than what we’re seeing in the grand jury report out of Pennsylvania.””
https://www.kansascity.com/living/religion/article217007790.html
“The brief response came shortly after Hawley announced that his office is conducting a “thorough and robust investigation” of potential clergy sex abuse in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Hawley said his office had full cooperation from St. Louis church officials, and he encouraged other dioceses in the state to allow similar investigations.
“Today, I have received a letter from the (St. Louis) archbishop confirming that he and the archdiocese will open to my office their files and will allow us to conduct a thorough, impartial review of potential clergy abuse in the Archdiocese of St. Louis,” Hawley told reporters in a telephone news conference.”
https://www.kansascity.com/living/religion/article217236020.html
Why did this guy not go full blown public 5 years ago?!He might have saved a few kids form abuse.
I think there are lots of reasons why they kept quiet all these years. Once you keep a secret like that for so long, I think there is a very real fear of going public and all that goes with going public about something like this. The report out of PA is 800 pages long.
Trunews did an hour long report just on this subject on Aug 15. At the 22:40 till about the 25 minute mark they read just two accounts of what happened. It’s so sick I can’t imagine what’s in that 800 pages but it’s public so you can read it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laCXCyQXnfg
Mary,decades back would get it to a degree,was in Boston when it hit the fan(law and mccormick of course rewarded for cover ups)but now feel has been in open already so many times seems this guy should have if no action taken within a few weeks gone full blown in the media.I as a survivor of this evil(not by church members)have no patience for protocols/following rules ect. except getting the truth out/kids some help/punishing the guilty and not going on witch hunts but getting the truth.
Catholic church torturing peasants, burning scientists, working to keep the Bible from being understood by the masses. Dragging peoples bones through the street, and then transforming into a Gay Pedophile club and child rape organization. So far beyond a few bad apples. Then the cherry on top, have a Pope who deems himself a SJW and wraps his communism in his religion. Put a fork in it already, let Babalon the great die already, no more $$ and no more fake prestige as if talking to the Pope means something. They can sell their gold toilets and other gaudy shit to pay for their wine drinking in the Vatican as they just try and find new heathens to fool.
Everyone of my local catholic churches has pedophiles in them. 3 local churches, one priest even went to jail since he kept on raping more recently and kids now adays and families are more quick to call the police then back in the day.
You know, my brother and I both attended the same Catholic elementary school. He absolutely hated the Catholic church with a passion. While I left the Church as soon as I was old enough, I never hated my nun teachers and I didn’t know the priests well enough to form an opinion one way or the other. My brother had been an alter boy and he was a very nice looking young man. Now it makes me wonder if there was something else behind the hate that he never talked about.
Keep in mind, he was 17 years older than me and passed on almost 9 years ago so I will never know.
I’m not a Catholic but it is an important and venerable institution of Western civilization. It, like our own FBI/DOJ cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of criminals and degenerates.
Pope Francis, like James Comey, has got to go otherwise the rot will continue. It maybe that the Church will have to end celibacy for the priesthood otherwise it will not be able to attract the kind of men it needs to reform itself. That is a decision it will have to make in the future but right now the Church must cleanse itself of the perverts and child molesters who made it their home.
Any organization, right down to the Order of the Moose and the Rotary club, deteriorates over time. They tend to hit their high water mark right after formation and then gradually recede. The lucky ones regenerate with a new, sudden influx of people.
I’ve tried to get involved in my town, but it’s hard to find a club, religious or otherwise, that isn’t stuffed with old baby boomer coots resting on their laurels. They become insular and self defining. “The whippersnappers these days are just all wrong.”
They don’t vote in the Catholic church except at the Cardinal level for Pope. Regeneration is not possible in that organization.
In medieval times this man calling for the Pope to step down would have been boiled in oil. Thank you Protestant Reformation. We couldn’t have spiritually liberated ourselves without you, we would be living in poverty stricken open sewers like most if the Catholic world, with stray dogs running around.
Modern organized Protestantism led by degenerates is hardly any better.
When queers and pedophiles are allowed to run the churches on things not of the Gospels, sooner or later the congregations fall away and the spiritual void will be filled with other ideologies.
Walk away.
4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:
7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
Psalm 26:4-10 KJV (archaic reference intentionally for JR)
If these rumors floating around about international child trafficking is true, and it is discovered that the Catholic Church has been a linchpin in it, then we may very well be witnessing its final days. Wouldn’t that be something?
Here’s hoping. The fewer churches around, the better.
Actually many people in the various Eastern Orthodox Churches believe that a total collapse of the Roman Church in the West is eminent, and are preparing for missions to move into formerly Catholic regions to fill the void. Wouldn’t that be something?
Don’t be silly. They only get rid of popes who uncover the massive corruption and financial criminality in the Vatican Bank (John Paul I).
Butt fucking faggots. It’s an organized pedophile club.