Among the biggest of the pieces that dropped in the major Papal interview with Noticieros Televisa’s long-time Vaticanologist, Valentina Alazraki and the document dump on which Crux and CBS jointly reported, was the one about Pope Francis’s knowledge of the character and proclivities of his old acquaintance, the disgraced former bishop of Óran, Gustavo Zanchetta. The short version is: Pope Francis knew enough. Here is a portion of the exchange, in the Catholic Herald’s English translation:
PF: Yes, then. There had been an accusation, and, before asking him to resign, I immediately brought him here with the person who accused him. an accusation telephone.
