A month on, the Holy See is preparing to address the archbishop’s ‘testimony’
On Monday, the “C9” Council of Cardinal Advisers, gathered in the Vatican for their 26th working session, issued a statement expressing “full solidarity” with Pope Francis “in the face of what has transpired in recent weeks” and noting that the Vatican is “about to formulate the eventual and necessary clarifications”.
“What has transpired” is: the former apostolic nuncio to the United States, Carlo Maria Viganò, published an explosive 11-page “testimony” late last month, alleging a systematic and decades-long cover-up of abuse and misconduct committed by the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore McCarrick.
