That's how sources familiar with Carlo Maria Viganò describe the Italian archbishop, who served as the Vatican ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2016.
His reputation makes the publication Saturday of Viganò's written "Testimony" about the Theodore McCarrick affair all the more inconvenient for those in the Catholic hierarchy who tried to bury the truth about the disgraced American prelate.
Noise: The suggestion, circulated by his critics, that Viganò considers himself an enemy of Francis and has been nursing a grievance over shabby treatment meted out to him upon his return to Rome from his post in Washington.
On the contrary, the document suggests Viganò began memorializing his concerns about McCarrick and raising them with his superiors long before Francis became pope.
As the document spread across the Catholic world, defenders of Pope Francis and the mainly liberal hierarchs implicated by Viganò pointed to the fact that McCarrick celebrated Masses and gave homilies during the period when he was supposedly under sanctions.
Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, a former first counsellor at the Washington embassy, told the Catholic News Agency: "Viganò said the truth. That's all." In his document, Viganò recounts how, when he first arrived in Washington, Lantheaume told him about the private sanctions against McCarrick.
As things stand, the smart money is that Viganò won't topple Francis.
https://nypost.com/2018/08/27/the-catholic-abuse-scandal-now-leads-all-the-to-way-the-vatican/
His reputation makes the publication Saturday of Viganò's written "Testimony" about the Theodore McCarrick affair all the more inconvenient for those in the Catholic hierarchy who tried to bury the truth about the disgraced American prelate.
Noise: The suggestion, circulated by his critics, that Viganò considers himself an enemy of Francis and has been nursing a grievance over shabby treatment meted out to him upon his return to Rome from his post in Washington.
On the contrary, the document suggests Viganò began memorializing his concerns about McCarrick and raising them with his superiors long before Francis became pope.
As the document spread across the Catholic world, defenders of Pope Francis and the mainly liberal hierarchs implicated by Viganò pointed to the fact that McCarrick celebrated Masses and gave homilies during the period when he was supposedly under sanctions.
Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, a former first counsellor at the Washington embassy, told the Catholic News Agency: "Viganò said the truth. That's all." In his document, Viganò recounts how, when he first arrived in Washington, Lantheaume told him about the private sanctions against McCarrick.
As things stand, the smart money is that Viganò won't topple Francis.
https://nypost.com/2018/08/27/the-catholic-abuse-scandal-now-leads-all-the-to-way-the-vatican/
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