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    Who is Carlo Maria Vigano, the man accusing Pope Francis of covering up sex abuse?

    by Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times Aug 28, 2018 4 minutes

    The Roman Catholic Church went into crisis mode this week after a Vatican official published an 11-page letter alleging that Pope Francis and U.S. Catholic leaders covered up sexual abuse by an American cardinal.

    In the unusually detailed and direct letter, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former Vatican ambassador to the U.S., made unsubstantiated claims that Francis, Pope Benedict XVI and several American cardinals and archbishops had teamed up over the years to protect Theodore McCarrick, who as a cardinal was one of the most powerful figures in the church.

    Vigano, who released the letter as the pope was visiting Ireland, blamed church

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