It has been more than two weeks since the former papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, released his 11-page “testimony” concerning what he called the “heart-breaking case of the Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick.”
While neither Pope Francis nor any senior curial cardinals have directly addressed Viganò’s claims, or spoken substantively on the ongoing McCarrick scandal, on Sept. 10 a statement from the C9 Council of Cardinals suggested that “the Holy See is about to formulate any necessary clarifications”














