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[Catholic Caucus] McCarrick Legacy and Abuse ContinuesProtégés promoted, whistleblowers punishedThe results of the much-awaited McCarrick Report came as no surprise. The results were similar to what former President Bill Clinton's lawyers might have prepared had they been tasked with investigating allegations that their boss was having an affair with a White House intern. Julio César Grassi, Battista Ricca and Gustavo Zanchetta From the very beginning, people were naïve to believe that Vatican investigators who report to Pope Francis would find him guilty of covering up for McCarrick. One only has to look at how Francis has handled sexual abuse and...

Exclusive: EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo Interviews Archbishop Viganò About McCarrick Report More than any other person except for Theodore McCarrick himself, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is responsible for triggering the 449-page Vatican report released this week that details what other Church leaders knew about the disgraced ex-cardinal’s decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct, and the actions they took or failed to take with respect to what they had learned.As the report itself documents, the archbishop was the first senior Vatican figure to call concretely for action to be undertaken against McCarrick, at a time when Archbishop Viganò was serving as a...

Sex Abuse Report Damns Pope, Top Cardinal UK investigation 'calls out the blatant hypocrisy of Pope Francis' LONDON (ChurchMilitant.com) - At noon Tuesday — two hours before the release of the Vatican's long-awaited McCarrick report — the United Kingdom's Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) published a damning report lambasting Pope Francis and archbishop of Westminster Cdl. Vincent Nichols.IICSA report published Tuesday, damning the Holy See In contrast to the Vatican's report, which commends Francis for acting promptly against the homopredator cardinal, the IICSA quasi-governmental investigation condemns the "Holy See's limited response" against abusive clerics which "manifestly did not demonstrate...