LONDON (UK)
National Catholic Register
October 5, 2018
By Ed Condon
Amid a British investigation into sexual abuse, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster is expected to face questions regarding the way his archdiocese handled allegations of misconduct made against his predecessor, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor.
Cardinal Nichols is scheduled to testify in November before the Independent Inquiry in Child Sexual Abuse, a panel established by the British government in 2014 and charged with reviewing sexual abuse and institutional response in the country’s Catholic dioceses, the Anglican Church and other British institutions.
In his most recent letter, released to media Sept. 27, former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò alleged that Pope Francis was responsible for halting “the investigation of sex-abuse allegations against Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor.”
Sources close to the case have told CNA the investigation was marked by procedural irregularities long before it reached Rome and before the election of Pope Francis.
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