What happened?
Pope Francis has said he does not remember if he was told about Theodore McCarrick’s predations. In an interview with Valentina Alazraki, the Pope was asked whether he had been told it by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who claims he informed the Pope on June 23, 2013. The Pope told Alazraki: “When says he spoke to me that day he came … I do not remember if he told me about this. If it is true or not. No idea!”
Originally, this was missing from the Vatican News website’s Italian transcript. It only included a section where the Pope said, “Of McCarrick I did not know anything, obviously, nothing, nothing. I said that several times, that I did not know, no idea.”
