This week the Vatican announced that it would be responding to allegations that “Pope Francis covered up” sexual abuse by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Claims of this action were recently brought to light by former Vatican Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò who wrote an open letter to the pope calling him out for his lack of action in the cases of sex abuse in the Catholic church.
In his 2010 book, On Heaven and Earth, Francis famously claimed that sex abuse by clergy “has never occurred in [his] diocese.” According to Life Site News, evidence stating to the contrary has recently come to light which describes Francis’s involvement in several cover-ups of clerical sexual predators in South America, including in his own archdiocese. The outlet reports that Francis continued his involvement in at least two of these cases during his papacy.
French news program Cash Investigation released a documentary in 2017 where six individuals claimed that they were sex abuse victims in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. The individuals told reporters that they had been sexually abused by clergy so they wrote to Pope Francis, then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, to inform him of the abuse. The individuals reported that they did not receive an answer.
To date, Pope Francis has only expressed regret for being a part of one cover-up. The pope expressed regret for being a part of the Barros…
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