McElroy: Francis’s Response to Trump? by Timothy Flanders

By Timothy Flanders, One Peter Five, January 7, 2025

Back in 2018 during the “Summer of Shame,” the successor to (Cardinal) McCarrick was Donald Wuerl. The latter claimed he knew nothing of McCarrick’s crimes crying to heaven, but many were skeptical, and with good reason. He initially denied knowledge, and then admitted he did, in fact, know.

After the Vatican assured us that they would speedily get to the bottom of the McCarrick scandal, a man aligned with McCarrick and his agenda was appointed in 2019: Wilton Gregory, shortly thereafter Cardinal.

The next year, the McCarrick report was released by the Vatican in 2020. Vatican News reported that Cardinal Wilton Gregory praised the report as a “step forward in accountability.” The defendants in the case were allowed investigate their own innocence. Turns out they were innocent!

So let’s review: the Vatican is exposed by Archbishop Viganò as corrupt with McCarrick. Then the Vatican appoints a new successor who praises the report which denies what Viganò claimed. Viganò, meanwhile, was on a path that later led to his excommunication.

But it seems that the substantial claims of Viganò – that the Vatican knew about McCarrick – have never been substantially tackled head on by the Vatican. But Wilton Gregory helped the Vatican’s image through the worst scandal since the first sex scandal in the early 2000s. Now Gregory’s time has come, and a new successor has been appointed.

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