Ouellet’s response to Vigano

October 25, 2018
Brian Gagan
San Francisco
 
Archbishop Vigano has fallen on his own sword (“Cardinal Ouellet responds to Vigano on McCarrick case,” Oct. 11). Based on his supposed integrity, the prestige we were supposed to give him in listening to his attack on Pope Francis has now been taken away by what Cardinal Ouellet says about him in his open letter. Not only does Cardinal Ouellet refute the accusations by Archbishop Vigano against the pope, but he also castigates him for his “scandalous rebellion” and alludes to his “bitterness” in being passed over for the College of Cardinals.
 
Pope Francis has called for a thorough study of the Vatican handling of the McCarrick scandal, but what we know so far, based on what Cardinal Ouellet’s letter tells us, is that Archbishop Vigano is misleading us by politically motivated accusations against the pope and has twisted the facts in a dishonest manner.

 

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