In a letter dated October 7th, Cardinal Marc Ouellet penned an open reply to Archbishop Viganò’s most recent appeal to Ouellet to “bear witness to the truth” concerning the alleged sanctions placed on Cardinal McCarrick by Benedict XVI and subsequently lifted by Pope Francis. Viganò claimed that, as Prefect for the Congregation of Bishops, Cardinal Ouellet had at his disposal “key documents incriminating McCarrick and many in the curia for their cover-ups.”
The cardinal’s reply to Viganò was the first public response by any high-ranking Vatican official since Viganò released his original bombshell “testimony” six weeks ago. In his response, Ouellet chastised the archbishop for his “open and scandalous rebellion” which Ouellet implied resulted from Viganò’s “bitterness and delusions.”
The cardinal then offered a critique of Viganò’s “monstrous accusation” based on his own personal consultation with the relevant archives. He claimed there are no documents signed by either pope imposing or revoking an “obligatory mandate of silence and to retire to a private life, carrying canonical penalties.”
Cardinal Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago has called Ouellet’s letter “authoritative and compelling.” https://dtyry4ejybx0.cloudfront.net/images/blank.gif
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https://www.crisismagazine.com/2018/cardinal-ouellets-response-to-archbishop-vigano-lacks-credibility