US Church divided over claims that pope ignored sex abuse 1 SHARES Share it! Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who was the Vatican envoy in Washington between 2011 and 2016, sparked a firestorm when he claimed last week that Pope Francis ignored his warnings in 2013 about alleged abuse by then prominent US cardinal Theodore McCarrick. “It is a time of turmoil for all of us,” says Paul Elie, a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University, a Catholic university in the nation’s capital. For Elie, these dissenting voices are a direct result of Francis’s tolerance of differing views. “People on the left say the leadership of the Catholic Church (in the US) has become the ‘Republican Party at prayer,'” added Doyle, a theologian who is himself a practicing Catholic.

Source: Manila Bulletin August 29, 2018 19:07 UTC