Pope Francis silent on Archbishop's call for him to resign
By Delia Gallagher and Sheena McKenzie, CNN


Dublin, Ireland (CNN) — Pope Francis says he "will not say a single word" on a former archbishop's call for him to resign over his handling of sexual abuse allegations against a prominent cardinal in 2013.
In a statement seen by CNN on Sunday, former Archbishop and Vatican ambassador to the US Carlo Maria Vigano said he told the Pope about allegations of sexual abuse against high-profile American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick five years ago, but that the Pontiff did nothing about it.
McCarrick, 88, who once led the Archdiocese of Washington and was a force in American politics, resigned last month after a decades-old allegation of sexual abuse of a teenage altar boy. The Pope also ordered McCarrick's suspension from public ministry.

Vigano called for the Pontiff to resign over his failure to act. "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," Vigano said in a lengthy statement dated August 22.
Speaking to the press Sunday on his flight back to Italy from Ireland, Pope Francis said, "I will not say a single word on this," although he added that after some time passes, "I may speak."
The Pope told reporters he believes the statement from Vigano speaks for itself. "I read the statement this morning, and I must tell you sincerely ... read the statement carefully and make your own judgment," he said.
'Serial predator'
"He [Pope Francis] knew from at least June 23, 2013, that McCarrick was a serial predator," Vigano said in his statement, adding, "although he knew that he was a corrupt man, he covered him to the bitter end."
"It was only when he was forced by the report of the abuse of a minor, again on the basis of media attention, that he took action [regarding McCarrick] to save his image in the media," Vigano continued.
A source close to Vigano -- who retired in 2016 at age 75 -- confirmed the letter is genuine.


Cardinal Wuerl rejects allegatons
Vigano also said Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl was aware of reports of sexual abuse by his predecessor McCarrick.
"Cardinal Wuerl, well aware of the continuous abuses committed by Cardinal McCarrick and the sanctions imposed on him by Pope Benedict, transgressing the Pope's order also allowed him to reside at a seminary in Washington D.C.," said Vigano.
"In doing so, he put other seminarians at risk," he added.
Wuerl rejected Vigano's allegation in a statement published by the Catholic News Agency on Sunday.
Edward McFadden, spokesperson for archdiocese of Washington, disputed the notion that Wuerl ignored allegations about McCarrick.
"In spite of what Archbishop Vigano's memo claims, Cardinal Wuerl did not receive any documentation or information during his time in Washington regarding any actions taken against Archbishop McCarrick," he said.
But the bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, told his parishioners he thinks the allegations are "credible."
"Let us be clear that they are still allegations, but as your shepherd, I find them to be credible," the Most Reverend Joseph E. Strickland wrote in a letter to members of the diocese.
Strickland's letter did not say why he believes the allegations are credible. CNN has reached out to his office for explanation.
Vigano's statement comes at a delicate time for Pope Francis, who has been on a visit to Ireland where he has been grappling with the fallout of a Pennsylvania grand jury report into clerical sexual abuse spanning decades, while also meeting with survivors of Ireland's own sex abuse scandal.


The Pennsylvania report found that more than 1,000 minors had been sexually abused by more than 300 Catholic priests over seven decades.
In an unusually blunt letter released by the Vatican last week, the Pope directly referred to the Pennsylvania report and acknowledged the Catholic Church's failure to act, adding "we showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them."
Visit to Ireland
On Saturday, the Pope again spoke in Dublin of his shame over the "appalling crimes" of historic child abuse in the Catholic Church and said outrage was justified, although he did not mention the Pennsylvania scandal specifically.
Meanwhile, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who spoke ahead of the Pope on Saturday, did not skirt the current abuse revelations that have emerged in Pennsylvania.
"In recent weeks, we have all listened to heartbreaking stories from Pennsylvania of brutal crimes perpetrated by people within the Catholic Church, and then obscured to protect the institution at the expense of innocent victims," he said. "It is a story all too tragically familiar here in Ireland."

Pope Francis concluded his 32-hour visit to Ireland with a Sunday Mass at Phoenix Park in Dublin, with hundreds of thousands of people braving wet and windy weather to attend. Thousands more gathered in the city center for protests against clerical sexual abuse.
"We ask forgiveness for the abuses in Ireland," said Pope Francis at the Mass, listing a litany of abuses including clerical sex crimes, a lack of compassion and action by church leaders and the separation of single mothers and children.
"We ask forgiveness for all the times that we, as the church, did not provide survivors of any kind of abuse compassion, to look for justice, and the truth, and concrete actions, so we ask forgiveness," Pope Francis said at the Mass.

Hmm

I read the Pensylvania report about the decades of clergymen sexually abusing young men entrusted in their care and passing it off as "horsing around."
The ended up destroying so many young men and women's life's under the guise of mentoring them religiously.
It is just sickening that catholic priests would hide under religion to assault their wards and instead of the Catholic church and the pope to expose these stinking paedophiles they are protecting them.
The popes attitude comes across as hypocritical and disgusting.
The mind boggles at the rot the Vatican sits upon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7xP0l_Y_UA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHQJCmsFd9k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6yTF8TdLiM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz5W97XmNw8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP6XU_Hymbo

This is a report of how a catholic priest abused five (5) girls from the same family for a decade and the diocese concerned did a FAT nothing.
Sickening.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEh0VkzZqqM

Dantedasz:
This is a report of how a catholic priest abused five (5) girls from the same family for a decade and the diocese concerned did a FAT nothing.
Sickening.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEh0VkzZqqM

I just watched the video and I feel like throwing up. Five sisters from one family abused by this monster who escaped justice by dying before he could be charged to court.

Yahweh might've ordered the abuse. let's not call the wrath if Yahweh on us

Dantedasz:
This is a report of how a catholic priest abused five (5) girls from the same family for a decade and the diocese concerned did a FAT nothing.
Sickening.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEh0VkzZqqM

Just seeing this.
Sad. And the church keeps on sheilding and protecting these animals calling themselves priests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_W87Ix5J8


Children snatched from their mothers and abused by Catholic Nuns In Ireland.

Abuse of children in a school for dumb children in Italy. The catholic priests abused the children sexually and thought the truth would never come out because The children were mutes but now due to technological advances the children who are now grown can express themselves and finger their abusers who have been conveniently transfered to South America by the Catholic church authorities. Please watch the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFDqSuUOLR8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q2HSJ6cbMY


Sexual and financial corruption in the Vatican goes all the way to the top.Why did Pope Benedict resign the papacy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8MRimOkagY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2r9gz-SU3Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3jqpyRQjGc

Be careful Dantedasz.

You are presenting lies from the pit of Hell.

Satan is using you to challenge the power of true Men of God.

You must fear for your eternal soul.

This matters are for God to judge only

We must submit ourselves to the rulings of His anointed ministers in the church.

Aaronsrod:
Be careful Dantedasz.

You are presenting lies from the pit of Hell.

Satan is using you to challenge the power of true Men of God.

You must fear for your eternal soul.

This matters are for God to judge only

We must submit ourselves to the rulings of His anointed ministers in the church.

This is hilarious.
Did you watch any of those videos?
Did you watch the video of five sisters sexually assaulted and abused by one priest in the US?
Did you watch the video of the Irish man who as a kid was anal raped by a Catholic priest in the toilet? Did you watch him lament how the clergy man ripped his anus apart and blood was dripping all over the toilet floor?
Did you watch the video of the dumb (physically challenged) ladies abused by nuns and priests serially?
Was it that you refused to believe and chose to protect the church the se way the pope chose to sheild all the Catholic clergy men implicated in sexual abuse and chose to reinstate them to positions of authority?
The children abused by priests do not deserve justice as long as the name of the Catholic church is protected?
You make me wanna puke,with this your sanctimonious post.
For your information this thread will continue running whether you like it or not and I will update it every day with relevant information.
And while you are at it have you ever asked yourself why the last pope resigned from his position? The answer is on one of the videos posted .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diZquWkg4Wg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ_iuBvbYZ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcW4osgDhr0

TheMadame:
I read the Pensylvania report about the decades of clergymen sexually abusing young men entrusted in their care and passing it off as "horsing around."
The ended up destroying so many young men and women's life's under the guise of mentoring them religiously.
It is just sickening that catholic priests would hide under religion to assault their wards and instead of the Catholic church and the pope to expose these stinking paedophiles they are protecting them.
The popes attitude comes across as hypocritical and disgusting.
The mind boggles at the rot the Vatican sits upon.

the guy was using sarcasm.

CAPSLOCKED:

THE CATH. CHURCH WAS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PRIMARY GOAL OF MISLEADING THE MASSES AND MOLESTING YOUNG PEOPLE.

this is just the wrong thing to say

Ubenedictus:
the guy was using sarcasm.

Sarcasm in a case of child abuse?Sarcasm in cases of priests raping children through the anus.
Continue to defend evil because you are a catholic.Children have been sexually abused in that church all over the world but all that concerns Catholics is to protect the name of their church. Why not spare a minute for uncountable children who have been abused? I shudder to think of the numerous scandals swept under the carpet in the catholic church in Africa if Europe and America is so bad.

TheMadame:



Sarcasm in a case of child abuse?Sarcasm in cases of priests raping children through the anus.
Continue to defend evil because you are a catholic.Children have been sexually abused in that church all over the world but all that concerns Catholics is to protect the name of their church. Why not spare a minute for uncountable children who have been abused? I shudder to think of the numerous scandals swept under the carpet in the catholic church in Africa if Europe and America is so bad.

I am not the person who used sarcasm, you can address him.


I consider child abuse to be a despicable depravity that should always be condemned and the perpetuators brought to justice.

unfortunately it present in the Catholic Church and even Protestant churches in Christianity and other religions, even in schools and groups, it is not only a Catholic problem and we must all be committed to stopping it wherever it is found.