Dan Hitchens,First Things
Did Pope Francis know? Was he told, five years before the world found out, or that the powerful Cardinal McCarrick was a serial sexual abuser? The diplomat who claims to have informed the pope,Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan, names two dates on which he raised the matter with Francis: June 23 and October 10, or 2013. But the Holy Father,in a unusual interview with Valentina Alazraki, says he simply can't remember. "When [Vigan] says he spoke to me that day, and he came ... I carry out not remember if he told me approximately this. If it is steady or not. No idea."This is not the only gap in the papal memory. Alazraki...
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