A Former Top Level Vatican diplomat backed up the claims made by Archbishop Vigano claiming they were true.
Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, the former first counsellor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington D.C., has said that the former nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, told “the truth†in his explosive statement released to the press on Aug. 25.
The 11-page document contains specific allegations that senior bishops and cardinals have been aware of the allegations of sexual abuse against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick for more than a decade. Archbishop Viganò also states that, in either 2009 or 2010, Pope Benedict XVI imposed sanctions on McCarrick “similar to those now imposed upon him by Pope Francis†and that McCarrick was forbidden from travelling and speaking in public.
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CNA contacted Msgr. Lantheaume and requested an interview with him to discuss the account attributed to him by Archbishop Viganò. Lantheaume, who has now left the Vatican diplomatic corps and serves in priestly ministry in France, declined to give an interview, and said he had no intentions of speaking further on the matter.
“Viganò said the truth. That’s all,†he wrote to CNA.
This is a bombshell claim. As we have reported Archbishop Vigano claimed that Pope Francis knew about the allegations against Theodore McCarrick and covered it up. This is the first person to come out and back up that claim. Pope Francis says he refuses to speak on this issue.
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