Pope Francis covered up McCarrick abuse, former US nuncio testifies

That would be great!!

 

Me too when I get there.

 

Yes. Me too.

 

It all sounds like the kid who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar...... allot of silence and denial. Shameful, but very happy it is all finally coming out. Thank God!

 

Thank you Mac. This is very important. Hugely important.

 

Several words of scripture come to mind. “He has laid the axe at the root of the tree...”
“His winnowing fan is in his hand...”
“You brood of vipers...”

 

Yes... I had first thought that there might be some hidden, weird reason why the media was covering this abuse. I still wonder that, honestly, and don't necessarily trust the secular media to report everything well. I do trust these good Catholic journalists, bloggers, priests, and bishops, though. Something is going to happen. Something must happen.

 

I also don't think that this current Pontiff will give up so quickly. Satan's work, sadly, may have just begun.

 

sunburst, Thank you for posting this video, it's very good imho.

Blizzard, I'm not keeping up with all of the posts but do you know if there is anything else posted in regard to what Edward Pentin stated about Archbishop Vigano being concerned for his own life and that his life is in danger? Thank you.

I did find the following on the Church Militant which states Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume fears for his life also.

Vatican Ambassador: ‘Viganò said the truth’
News: World News

Rodney Pelletier • ChurchMilitant.com • August 27, 2018 24 Comments
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vatican-ambassador-vigano-said-the-truth
Ex-Vatican ambassador affirms the testimony of Abp. Carlo Viganò
DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, the temporary Vatican ambassador to the United States in July 2011, is confirming Abp. Carlo Viganò's explosive testimony regarding Pope Francis' complicity in covering up for homosexual predator bishops.

Speaking to Catholic News Agency (CNA), Lantheaume is declaring, "Viganò said the truth. That's all."

On Facebook, however, he went into greater detail, asserting, "[The testimony] says the whole truth. I am a witness. The nuncio Viganò is the most honest Prelate that I know in the Vatican." [emphasis added]

He cautions, "These may be the last lines I write… if I am found chopped up by a chainsaw and my body sunk in concrete, the police and the hacks will say that we have to consider the hypothesis of suicide!!!" [emphasis added]

Earlier in the exchange, which is in French, Lantheaume responds to comments, adding "[The storm is] worse than you think, ready yourself." [emphasis added]

When another person adds, "You're not reassuring us dear father!" he responds, "My goal is not to reassure you, but to tell the truth! Bishops are neither unscathed nor untouchable: they are all just as much sinners as are others!!! let it be said once and for all… they do not enjoy papal infallibility!" [emphasis added]

He goes on further, "But of course as soon as one tries to tell the truth, you have your head cut off, or you 'have a bad spirit'…. it's been over twenty years since I said what I had to say…. now believe what you want, but I can tell you as being the direct witness that Viganò is telling the truth: I was the direct witness!" [emphasis added]

As a member of the Vatican's diplomatic corps, Lantheaume was a direct witness to the "stormy conversation" referenced in Viganò's testimony between the previous papal ambassador, Abp. Pietro Sambi, and then-archbishop of Washington, D.C. Theodore McCarrick.

Lantheaume took over as the Vatican's temporary diplomat after the death of Abp. Pietro Sambi, the Vatican's ambassador to the United States from 2005 until his death in July 2011, when Viganò was appointed as the Vatican's diplomat to the United States soon after. He recounts in his testimony:

Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, then first Counsellor of the Nunciature in Washington and Chargé d'Affaires ad interim after the unexpected death of Nuncio Sambi in Baltimore, told me when I arrived in Washington — and he is ready to testify to it — about a stormy conversation, lasting over an hour, that Nuncio Sambi had with Cardinal McCarrick whom he had summoned to the Nunciature. Monsignor Lantheaume told me that "the Nuncio's voice could be heard all the way out in the corridor."
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Curiously, Viganò refers to Sambi's death and that of his predecessor, Abp. Gabriel Montalvo, as "premature."

Since Viganò's testimony was released on Saturday night, others have stepped forward to confirm its contents.

Father Carlos Martin commented that a source from within the Vatican says Viganò's testimony "has hit the Curia like an atomic bomb."

Martin adds that, in the Vatican, Viganò was a "highly respected individual who had been regularly promoted for doing his job well."

He further added that his source in the Vatican noted, "The feeling in the Curia right now is that the response of Viganò's enemies will to try to discredit him personally, both because of the impeccability of Viganò's character and the impossibility of his having interpreted the facts incorrectly." Tweet

He continues, "Their only hope will be to try to take energy away from the perversion and corruption that he uncovered. They will likely state that he is a bitter man who is seeking personal aggrandizement after having been exiled from Rome. When this occurs, don't buy into it. Viganò is retired. He has nothing personally to gain from this."

Since Viganò's testimony went public, two cardinals have personally and confidentially confirmed to Church Militant the testimony is correct in its assessment. [emphasis added]

Cardinal Raymond Burke commented to LifeSiteNews, "The corruption and filth which have entered into the life of the Church must be purified at their roots," adding, "The declarations made by a prelate of the authority of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò must be totally taken to heart by those responsible in the Church."

He also called for an investigation into "each declaration … according to the Church's time-tried procedural law."

Bishop Joseph Strickland of the diocese of Tyler, Texas responded to Viganò's testimony on Sunday morning, calling it "credible" and requiring all his priests "to include this notice in the masses on August 26, and post it on their websites and other social media immediately."
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PS- Did anyone happen to watch the live broadcast tonight from the Church Militant at 7pm ET? And if so, can you give a brief overview of what they covered?
Thank you.

 

Some catholic media should translate this article to English. It is another bomb.

Aldo Maria Valli, the Italian journalist Viganò chose to publish his report recounts how Viganò contacted him and met with him. The additional details he provides are critical to understand why Viganò did it and what is at stake in the Church. Very much worth it to use google translator to get at least a sense.

This is the most important piece of information published after Vigano report. Seriously, if you know anyone in Life site news or ncregister, forward to them. Ask them to publish.

https://www.aldomariavalli.it/2018/...iale-ed-ecco-perche-ho-deciso-di-pubblicarlo/

 

Jarg, hank you for posting this. I "google translated" it and I am certain that there are some small errors but I think it is still can be understood.

So Monsignor Viganò gave me his memorial. And that's why I decided to publish it
Saved in: Blog | by Aldo Maria Valli
Doctor, I need to see you. "
The tone of the voice is quiet, but I feel a note of apprehension. On the phone there is Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò, the former nuncio in the United States.
I do not hide my surprise. We have seen each other sometimes, on the occasion of public meetings, but we can not say we know each other.
He explains to me that he is a regular reader of mine, who appreciates my courage and my clarity, sometimes united with irony. I thank him and ask: but why see us?
The answer is that he can not say it on the phone.
Okay, so let's see each other, but where?
Naively I propose my editorial staff, or the bar a few meters, which is my editorial bis.
"No, no, for heaven's sake. As far as possible from the Vatican, far from prying eyes ".
By nature I am not a conspirator, but I feel that the monsignor is seriously worried.
"So at my house? At dinner? I warn you that there will be my wife and there will be some of the daughters ".
"At home he's fine".
"Should I come and get you?".
"No, no, I will come, with my car".
And so it happens.
When the archbishop arrives, on a warm evening of almost summer, I see a man older than I remembered. He smiles, but it soon becomes clear that something oppresses him. It has a weight in the heart.
After the presentations of his wife and daughters, and after he has blessed the table, to ease the tension a little we joke about our common Lombard roots (he is from Varese, we from Rho). The monsignor arrived at the appointed time, splitting the minute: in Rome it is very rare that it happens.
Then Viganò immediately enters the subject. He is worried about the Church, fearing that at its summits there are people who do not work to bring the Gospel of Jesus to the men and women of our time, but to bring confusion and yield to the logic of the world. Then he begins to talk about his long experience in the Secretariat of State, at the head of the Vatican City Governorate and as a nuncio, in Nigeria and in the United States. He makes many names and cites many circumstances. It is not easy for my wife and my girls to follow him. Even though I have been a vaticanist for more than twenty years, I find it hard to orient myself. But we do not interrupt it because we understand that it needs to speak. The impression is that he is a lonely and sad man for what he sees around him, but not exacerbated. In his words there is never a bad word about the many people he mentions. The facts are eloquent. Sometimes he smiles and looks at me, as if to say: "What should we do? Is there a way out? ".
He tells me that he called me because, despite not knowing me in person, he esteems me, above all for the courage and freedom that I demonstrate. He adds that my blog is read and appreciated even in the "sacred palaces", although not everyone can say it openly.
I ask him something about his experience in the Governorate and he tells us how he managed to save the Vatican's coffers a lot of money by enforcing the rules and putting order in the accounts.
Comment: "Well, monsignor, after that repulisti certainly you will not be made friends!". He smiles again and replies: "I know it well! But if I had not done it I would not have respect for myself ".
He is a man with a profound sense of duty. At least it seems to us. In a few minutes a harmony is established between us.
My wife, catechist in the parish, and the girls are literally speechless in front of certain stories. I always say, joking but not too much, that good Catholics should not know how things work in the high hierarchies, and I confirm this tonight. However, I am not sorry to have invited the archbishop home. I believe that the sorrowful testimony of this man, of this elderly servant of the Church, is telling us something important. Something that, even in pain and confusion, can help our life of faith.
The monsignor says: "I am seventy-seven years old, I am at the end of my life. I do not care about men's judgment. The only judgment that matters is that of the good God. He will ask me what I have done for the Church of Christ and I want to be able to answer that I have defended and served until the end ".
The evening passes like this. We have the distinct feeling that his excellence did not even realize what he had in his plate. Between a mouthful and the other he never stopped talking.
When I take him back to his car I ask myself: but, in the end, why did he want to see me? Out of respect, and for lack of confidence, I do not ask him the question, but before saying goodbye, he says to me: "Thank you, we will meet again. Do not call me. I will make myself alive ". And get in the car.
I am a journalist and therefore in these cases the first impulse is to put myself on the computer and write down everything he told me, but I hold back. The monsignor did not forbid me to write. On the contrary, he did not tell me anything about it. But it is out of the question that he made me some revelations. I understand then that the meeting was a kind of trial. The archbishop wanted to see if he can trust me.
He spends more than a month and calls me again. The request is the same as last time: "Can we meet?".
"Of course yes. Let's go back to my house? I warn you, however, that there will be one more daughter, the eldest, and there will also be her two children, our grandchildren. "
"It does not matter," says Viganò. "The important thing is that at a certain point we get a space to talk".
And so his excellency the former nuncio in the US returns to visit us. And this time it seems a bit 'less tense. It is obvious that he likes to be with this big, rowdy family. At one point, his cell phone rings. A video call from the United States. She is the nephew: "Oh sorry Uncle, I did not want to disturb!" Viganò smiles amused and shows with his cell phone the whole club at the table, including the grandchildren. "What a lovely company!", Says her niece. And then, addressed to me: "I take this opportunity to say that I esteem it very much".
The tension is dissolved. Our three-year-old grandson buzzes around the monsignor and calls him Carlo Maria. Viganò is amused and it seems that for a few moments he has forgotten his worries.
But again, after the blessing of the table, the archbishop is a river in flood. So many stories, so many circumstances, so many names. But this time it focuses more on the American years. He cites the McCarrick case, the former cardinal found guilty of serious abuses, and makes it clear that everyone knew, in the US and in the Vatican, for a long time, for years. Yet they have covered.
I ask: just everyone all?
With a nod, the archbishop replies yes: just everyone.
I would like to ask other questions, but it is not easy to enter into the uninterrupted flow of dates, news, meetings, names.
The juice is that even Pope Francis, according to Viganò, knew. Yet he let McCarrick circulate undisturbed, making fun of the bans imposed on him by Benedict XVI. Francesco knew at least since March 2013, when Viganò himself, responding to a question from the pope during a face-to-face meeting, told him that there is a large dossier on McCarrick at the Vatican and there is nothing to read.
Compared to our previous meeting there is the news of the results of the investigation by the grand jury of Pennsylvania, and Viganò confirms that the picture is correct. Sexual abuse is a more extensive phenomenon than one might imagine, and it is not correct to talk about pedophilia, because in the vast majority of cases it is a matter of homosexual clerics that hunt for adolescent males. More correct, says the monsignor, is to talk about efebophilia instead. But the point is that the network of complicity, silence, cover and mutual favors is extended beyond all words, and involves all the leaders, both in America and in Rome.
We remain, once again, stunned. Because of my work something we had sensed, but for Catholics like us, born and raised in the bosom of Mother Church, it is really difficult to swallow such a bite.

cont'd

 

cont'd from above,

My question is therefore as naive as possible: why?
And the Monsignor's answer freezes the blood: "Because those cracks mentioned by Paul VI, from which Satan's smoke would have slipped into the house of God, have become chasms. The devil is working great. And not to admit it, or turn your face to the other side, it would be our greatest sin ".
I realize that that moment face to face, to which the monsignor held so much, there was not. He spoke in front of everyone. I ask him if he wants me and him to move to another room, without a wife, daughters or grandchildren, but he says no, that's okay. We understand that it is good. For us it's a bit like listening to a grandfather who makes us tales about distant worlds, and we would like so much that at some point he said it was only fiction. Instead the world he is talking about is ours. It is our Church. They are our supreme pastors.
The basic question remains: why is the monsignor telling us all this? What do you want from me?
This time I ask him and the answer is that he wrote a memorial in which there are all the circumstances he spoke to us about. Including the meeting of 23 June 2013 with the pope, when he, Viganò, informed Francesco about the McCarrick dossier.
So?
"So - he says - if you allow me, I will let you have my memorial, which shows that the Pope knew and did not act. And then she, after evaluating it, will decide whether to publish it or not in her blog, which is so popular. I want you to know. I do not do it lightly, but I think it is the only road left to attempt a change, an authentic conversion".
"I see. Will it only give it to me? "
"No. I will give it to another Italian blogger, an Englishman, an American and a Canadian. Translations will be made in English and Spanish ".
Once again, the monsignor does not ask me for confidentiality. I understand that you trust. We therefore agree that, at your request, we will meet again and I will pass the memorial.
In fact, after a few days he calls me back and we make arrangements. I can not say where we saw each other, because I gave my word.
The monsignor presents himself with sunglasses and a baseball cap. He asks that my first reading of the document take place in front of him, so he says, "if something does not convince you, we can discuss it right away".
I read everything. Eleven pages. He is amazed at my speed and looks at me: "So?"
I say: "It's strong. Detailed. Well written. A dramatic picture ".
He asks: "Will he publish it?".
"Monsignor, do you realize it's a bomb? What should we do?".
"I entrust him to her. Think about it".
"Monsignor, do you know what they will say? That she wants to take revenge. Who is gnawed by resentment for having been dismissed from the governorship and other events. That she is the raven who brought out Vatileaks's papers. They will say that she is an unstable, as well as a conservative of the worst kind ".
"I know I know. But I do not care. The only thing that matters to me is to bring the truth to the surface, so that a purification can begin. At the point where we are there is no other way ".
I'm not anguished. Deep down, I have already made the decision to publish, because I feel that I can trust this man. But I ask myself: "What effect will it have on the simplest souls? On good Catholics? Do not we risk doing more harm than good? ".
I realize that I asked the question aloud and the monsignor replied: "Think about it. Evaluate calmly ". We shake hands. He takes off his dark glasses and we look straight in the eye.
The fact that you do not force me, that you do not seem anxious to see me publish everything, causes me to trust even more of him. One of his maneuvers? Are you manipulating me?
At home I talk with Serena and with the girls. For me their advice is always very important. What to do?
These are days of questions. I re-read the memorial. It is circumstantial, but of course it is the version of Viganò. I think readers will understand it. I will propose the version of the archbishop after which, if someone has arguments in the opposite direction, he will propose other versions.
My wife reminds me: "But if you publish it, they will think that, by the very fact of publishing it, you are on your side. Do you want?".
Yes, I like it. Will they judge me biased? Patience. After all, I'm biased. When I'm a reporter I'm just a reporter, trying to be aseptic as possible, but in my blog I've already broadly lined up and readers know how I think about a certain turn that the Church has taken in recent years. If then someone will propose me documents that prove that Viganò mind, or that his version of the facts is incomplete or incorrect, I will be happy to publish those too.
I hear the monsignor on the phone. I tell him my decision. We agree the day and time of publication. He says that on the same day and at the same time they will also publish the others. He decided for Sunday, August 26 because the pope, returning from Dublin, will have the opportunity to reply by answering questions from journalists on the plane. He warns me that among those who publish will be added the newspaper "La Verità". He tells me he has already bought a plane ticket. Will go abroad. He can not tell me where. I will not have to look for it. The old mobile number will no longer be used. We say goodbye for the last time.
So it went. Not that the doubts inside me are over. I did well? Did I hurt? I keep asking. But I'm serene. And I read the words that Monsignor Vigano wrote at the conclusion of his memorial: "Let us pray for the Church and for the Pope, let us remember how many times he asked us to pray for him! Let us renew our faith in the Church our mother: I believe the Church, one, holy, catholic, apostolic! Christ will never abandon his Church! He has generated it in his blood and continually revives it with his Spirit! Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us! Virgin Mary Queen, Mother of the King of glory, pray for us! ".
Aldo Maria Valli

 

Well, I hope too that this begins the much needed process of closing off those chasms of smoke. I think we have not seen the half of it. The windows and doors will have to be opened to clear out the Church of this smoke.
Prayers for this man, I hope that he is somewhere safe and reasonably secure.

 

Father Z has done a translation on his blog:

Italian journalist: “How Archbishop Viganò gave me his memo. Here’s why I decided to publish it.”

 

I find it interesting that Archbishop Vigano immediately addressed accusations that were made against him but Pope Francis has not said a word to defend himself, not a word. I wonder what the spin doctors will come up with next. We should continue our prayers for Archbishop Vigano (and Pope Francis) and for the truth to be exposed.

I love the following comment from this article, "Strange, after all these years he [Pope Francis] refuses to comment to the press..? I wish he would have done that sooner."

Viganò Defends Himself in Face of Attacks
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vigano-defends-himself-in-face-of-attacks

Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D. • ChurchMilitant.com • August 27, 2018 41 Comments
Ex-papal nuncio denies claims that he ordered documents related to sex abuse investigation be destroyed
ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - A former papal nuncio is defending himself in the face of accusations impugning his integrity.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former apostolic nuncio to the United States, who published explosive testimony Sunday alleging Pope Francis covered for homosexual predator Abp. Theodore McCarrick, issued a two-page statement* Monday responding to charges that he thwarted a sex abuse investigation in 2015.

"These accusations — alleging that I ordered the two Auxiliary Bishops of Minneapolis to close the investigation into the life of Archbishop John C. Nienstedt — are false," he wrote.

Nienstedt was forced to resign from his role as head of the archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2015 after the Ramsey County Attorney's Office filed criminal charges against the archdiocese for the way it handled priestly sex abuse. It was the first criminal prosecution of a Catholic archdiocese in U.S. history.

Reports surfaced in 2016 claiming Viganò had shut down the investigation and had ordered that a document incriminating Nienstedt be destroyed.

"I never told anyone that Greene Espel should stop the inquiry, and I never ordered any document to be destroyed," Viganò insists in Monday's statement. "Any statement to the contrary is false."

Greene Espel is the law firm hired by Griffith to conduct the investigation, which Viganò claims did so "in an unbalanced and prosecutorial style."

On the same day the reports on Viganò's alleged conduct were released, Pope Francis ordered that an investigation be opened into Vigano.

"Mr. Jeffrey Lena — an American lawyer working for the Holy See — went to the Congregation for Bishops where he found documents proving that my conduct had been absolutely correct," Viganò explained in his statement. "Mr. Lena handed a written report exonerating me to the Holy Father."

"In spite of this, the Vatican Press Office did not deem it necessary to release a statement refuting the New York Times article," Viganò added.

Viganò has come under fire by critics attempting to discredit him after he published an 11-page statement testifying that Pope Francis was aware of McCarrick's homosexual predation but "continued to cover him," even making him "his trusted counselor" in naming bishops for appointment, including Cdl. Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey (McCarrick's former diocese) and Cdl. Blase Cupich of Chicago, Illinois.

"In this extremely dramatic moment for the universal Church, he [Pope Francis] must acknowledge his mistakes and, in keeping with the proclaimed principle of zero tolerance, Pope Francis must be the first to set a good example for cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick’s abuses and resign along with all of them," Viganò wrote.

Since then, leftist authors have mobilized against Viganò, impugning his motives and attacking his credibility, with Michael Sean Winters of The National Catholic Reporter — a newspaper condemned by the Church — even calling Viganò's supporters "drunken yahoos" taking part in a "putsch" against Pope Francis.

The pope himself has refused to comment on the grave allegations, telling the press on the papal plane back from Ireland Sunday to make up their own minds on the matter.

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Statement by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò regarding the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis

Accusations against my person appeared in the media – in July 2016, when I had already left my mission in Washington, D.C. – following the publication of a memorandum written by Father Dan Griffith, the thendelegate for the protection of minors in the Archdiocese.
These accusations – alleging that I ordered the two Auxiliary Bishops of Minneapolis to close the investigation into the life of Archbishop John C. Nienstedt – are false. Father Griffith was not present during my meeting at the Nunciature with the Archbishop and the two Auxiliaries on April 12, 2014, during which several affidavits containing accusations against Archbishop Nienstedt were handed to me.
These affidavits were collected by the firm, Greene Espel, who was retained by Father Griffith on behalf of the Archdiocese to investigate Archbishop Nienstedt. This firm belongs to the group “Lawyers for All Families,” who fought against Archbishop Nienstedt over the approval of same-sex marriage in the State of Minnesota.
In one of these affidavits, it was claimed that Archbishop Nienstedt had had an affair with a Swiss Guard during his service in the Vatican some twenty years prior.
Private investigators from the Greene Espel firm had conducted an inquiry in an unbalanced and prosecutorial style, and now wanted immediately to extend their investigation to the Pontifical Swiss Guard, without first hearing Archbishop Nienstedt.
I suggested to the bishops who came to the Nunciature on April 12, 2014, that they tell the Greene Espel lawyers that it appeared to me appropriate that Archbishop Nienstedt be heard before taking this step – audiatur et altera pars – which they had not yet done. The bishops accepted my suggestion.
But the following day, I received a letter signed by the two auxiliaries, falsely asserting that I had suggested the investigation be stopped.
I never told anyone that Greene Espel should stop the inquiry, and I never ordered any document to be destroyed. Any statement to the contrary is false.
However, I did instruct one of the auxiliary bishops, Lee A. Piché, to remove from the computer and the archdiocesan archives the letter falsely asserting that I had suggested the investigation be halted. I insisted on this not only to protect my name, but also that of the Nunciature and the Holy Father who would be
unnecessarily harmed by having a false statement used against the Church.
The very day the news appeared in the New York Times, on July 21, 2016, the Holy Father asked Cardinal Parolin to phone the Nuncio in Washington, D.C. (Christophe Pierre), ordering that an investigation into my conduct be opened immediately, so that I could be reported to the tribunal in charge of judging abuse cover-up by bishops.
I informed the Vatican Press Office in the persons of Father Lombardi and Mr. Greg Burke. With the authorization of the Substitute of the Secretary of State, then-Archbishop Becciu, Mr. Jeffrey Lena – an American lawyer working for the Holy See – went to the Congregation for Bishops where he found documents
proving that my conduct had been absolutely correct.
Mr. Lena handed a written report exonerating me to the Holy Father. In spite of this, the Vatican Press Office did not deem it necessary to release a statement refuting the New York Times article.
The Nunciature also responded to Cardinal Parolin with a detailed report, which restored the truth and demonstrated that my conduct had been absolutely correct.
This report is found in the Vatican Secretariat of State and at the Nunciature in Washington, DC.
On January 28, 2017, I wrote to both Archbishop Pierre and Archbishop Hebda (who had succeeded Nienstedt), asking them to publicly correct the Griffith memorandum. In spite of repeated emails and phone calls, I never heard back from them.

August 26, 2018
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PS - I was a little upset by the document that I Google translated above but I am a bit relieved now to see that the word translated as memorial should have been memo. I suspected that something was wrong there and I'm glad that Father Z provided a better translation.

Edited to add:
Here is some new spin,


Viganò Testimony Receives Mixed Response From US Bishops
August 27, 2018 Several U.S. bishops have responded to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò's testimony, including Cardinal Blase Cupich, Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Bishop Robert McElroy...
www.ncregister.com/.../vigano-testimony-receives-mixed-response-from-us- bishops
(8 hours ago)

 

This is the translation on FR Z website on the paragraph you refer to. It’s much closer to the original in Italian:

And the response the Archbishop (Viganò) gave froze my blood, “Because those fissures Paul VI talked about, through which the smoke of Satan would enter into the house of God, have become an abyss. The devil is at work on a huge scale. And not to admit it, or to turn your face in another direction, would be our greatest sin.” http://wdtprs.com/blog/2018/08/ital...e-his-memo-heres-why-i-decided-to-publish-it/

In other words, the magnitude of the curren battle is beyond any human/political capabilities, operations or moves. The devil is devouring the Church from the inside. This can only be won through supernatural means...

 

Hi Carol, didn´t find anything else but then I didn´t look extensively. Edward Pentin, however, is a serious professional so I think what he says is credible.