WASHINGTON (DC)
Fox News
October 7, 2018
By Greg Norman
A Vatican official close to Pope Francis is blasting allegations that the leader of the Catholic Church helped cover up the sexual misconduct of an American cardinal, writing in a letter published Sunday that the claims are a “political set-up without a real foundation.”
The fiery rebuke from Cardinal Marc Ouellet comes six weeks after Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano named more than two dozen current and former Vatican officials and accused them of knowing about – and helping hide – the alleged misdeeds of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
“In response to your unjust and unjustified attack, dear Viganò, I conclude therefore that the accusation is a political set-up without a real foundation that can incriminate the Pope, and I reiterate that it deeply hurts the communion of the Church,” Ouellet said Sunday.
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