On Sunday, “Everybody Loves Raymond” star Patricia Heaton, called Pope Francis out for his response to the Catholic church sexual abuse scandal.
In August, Francis was accused by Vatican Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano of ignoring accusations made against Theodore McCarrick. Vigano released an extensive statement last month in which he said, there was a “conspiracy of silence not so dissimilar from the one that prevails in the mafia.”
Following the release of this statement, the Pope responded saying, “Read the document carefully and judge it for yourselves.”
Francis then went on to repeatedly ask the public to forgive the church for the abuses but has refused to launch any further investigation into the matter. This was what Heaton addressed on Twitter.
Austen Ivereigh, the founder of Catholic Voices, issued a series of six tweets saying, “SIX THOUGHTS ON THE VIGANÒ DEBACLE. The attempt by the embittered ex-nuncio to get the pope to take the bullet for the McCarrick scandal has been exposed as a fraud, as the pope knew it would be once reporters pored over Viganò’s half-truths & inconsistencies.”
1/6 SIX THOUGHTS ON THE VIGANÒ DEBACLE. The attempt by the embittered ex-nuncio to get the pope to take the bullet for the McCarrick scandal has been exposed as a fraud, as the pope knew it would be once reporters pored over…
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