ROME (ITALY)
Catholic News Agency
January 14, 2019
By Michael W. Chapman |
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the Vatican’s former top diplomat to the United States, released a public letter on Sunday calling on accused sex-abuser Archbishop Theodore McCarrick — a power player in the U.S. church — to “confess and repent” of his “sins, crimes and sacrileges, and do so publicly” because “your eternal salvation is at stake.”
“As has been reported as news by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the accusations against you for crimes against minors and abuses against seminarians are going to be examined and judged very soon with an administrative procedure,” said Archbishop Vigano in his Jan. 13 letter.
“No matter what decision the supreme authority of the Church takes in your case, what really matters and what has saddened those who love you and pray for you is the fact that throughout these months you haven’t given any sign of repentance,” wrote Vigano. “I am among those who are praying for your conversion, that you may repent and ask pardon of your victims and the Church.”
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