DUBLIN, Ireland—A former papal ambassador to the U. S. has claimed that Pope Francis knew as early as 2013 about charges that the former archbishop…
DUBLIN, Ireland—A former papal ambassador to the U. S. has claimed that Pope Francis knew as early as 2013 about charges that the former archbishop of Washington, ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, had been sexually active with seminarians and priests and that Pope Benedict XVI had privately disciplined him over the charges.
In a letter published by two conservative Catholic outlets, LifeSiteNews and the National Catholic Register, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò wrote that Pope Francis had ignored then-Cardinal McCarrick’s record…
