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by Joshua J. McElwee
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Knock, Ireland --
A former Vatican ambassador to Washington has published an 11-page
letter filled with accusations against dozens of former and current
high-level officials in the Catholic Church, claiming there was a
systemic cover-up of allegations that now former cardinal Theodore
McCarrick was sexually abusing seminarians.
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by Joshua J. McElwee
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Dublin, Ireland -- One
of the eight Irish abuse survivors who met with Pope Francis Aug. 25
says that during the meeting the pontiff told the group he is not
planning to implement new procedures to hold bishops who cover-up clergy
abuse to account, citing measures the Catholic Church already has in
place to do so.
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by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
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Dublin, Ireland -- Before
celebrating Mass in a Dublin park, Pope Francis solemnly asked
forgiveness for the thousands of cases of sexual and physical abuse
perpetrated by Catholics in Ireland.
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by Michael Sean Winters
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Archbishop
Carlo Maria Vigano's testimony proves one thing: The former Vatican
ambassador to the United States is to the clergy sex abuse crisis what
Oliver Stone is to the assassination of President John Kennedy, a
trafficker in conspiracy theories who mixes fact, fiction and venom to
produce something explosive but also suspicious. When you finish reading
this testimony, as at the end of Stone's 1991 movie "JFK," you can only
conclude that the product tells us more about the author than it does
about the subject.
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by Joshua J. McElwee
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ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM DUBLIN --
Speaking aboard the Aug. 26 flight back to Rome from Ireland, Francis
said the former Vatican ambassador's 11-page document of unsubstantiated
claims "speaks for itself."
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