Archbishop carlo maria vigano 11 page letter
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Former ambassador Vigano accuses Vatican of covering up McCarrick scandal for years
Vigano claims that two of his predecessors in Washington, Archbishops Gabriel Montalvo and Pietro Sambi, "did not fail" to notify the Vatican about allegations against McCarrick as early as 2000, the year when Pope John Paul II appointed McCarrick archbishop of the capital city.
Vigano says Sambi forwarded one specific accusation against McCarrick to the Vatican's then sekreterare of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, in 2006. The accusation, Vigano says, was made bygd a präst of the Charlotte diocese who was laicized for abusing minors.
The former ambassador says he wrote a report on the accusations in his role at the time as the Vatican's Delegate for pontifikal Representations, which was given to Bertone and now Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, who was then Bertone's second-in-command and fryst vatten now head of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
Vigano says his report was "kept by my superiors, and w
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Catholic sex abuse: Pope critic Archbishop Vigano 'in hiding'
A former Vatican diplomat who accused the Pope of covering up reports of clerical sex abuse is lying low over fears for his safety, it is claimed.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano wrote in a letter that Pope Francis knew of allegations against a US cardinal five years before accepting his resignation.
Italian blogger Aldo Maria Valli later said the archbishop had told him that he had "purchased an aeroplane ticket".
The senior priest has made no further comment since the weekend.
Recounting a meeting between the pair, Valli describes what the archbishop told him, external, writing: "He will leave the country. He cannot tell me where he is going. I am not to look for him. His old mobile phone number will no longer work. We say goodbye for the last time."
An English translation of the blogpost has been published on Catholic Journal OnePeterFive, external.
Similar claims that the archbish
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Finding Vigano
In Search of the Man Whose Testimony Shook the Church and the World
In 2018, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano released an 11-page testimony that rocked the world. In it, he called out the corruption of the Church, especially with regards to its handling of the sexual abuse crisis—addressing most specifically the case of disgraced Cardinal Theodore McCarrick—and stunningly called for the resignation of Pope Francis. And then he was gone . . . at least physically. In these pages, longtime Vatican journalist Robert Moynihan, publisher of Inside the Vatican magazine, brings to bear his vast experience in the corridors of power in Rome as well as his longstanding friendship with Vigano to produce a book that both provides an incisive look at the content of the Testimony itself, but also, through interviews conducted in-person with Vigano at undisclosed locations, a personal look at the man whose conscience compelled him to speak out about the “filth” in which the Church h