Nearly a year later, Pope Francis denied claims made by a former apostolic nuncio to the United States who accused him and other church officials of failing to act on accusations of abuse of conscience and power by former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick.
Pope Francis waves outside St. Patrick in the City Church in Washington, Sept. 24, 2015, while accompanied by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, then the apostolic nuncio to the United States. In a published report May 28, 2019, Pope Francis denied Archbishop Vigano's claims that the pontiff and other church officials failed to act on accusation of abuse of conscience and power by former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
