Archbishop Accuses Pope of Sex Abuse Cover Up, Reportedly Flees Country Citing Threats to His Life

 As TFTP reported  earlier this week, a former Vatican diplomat released a historical  11-page testament accusing the catholic church — up to and including the  pope — of not only failing to act on the child abuse scandal, but also  being complicit in covering it up. 

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano wrote  in a letter that Pope Francis knew of the allegations for years and did  nothing to stop it. Now, it has been reported that Vigano has been  forced into “hiding” because he is in fear of his life. As TFTP reported,  Vigano released the bombshell report accusing the  pope of covering up the allegations and asked for his resignation. “Pope Francis has repeatedly asked for total transparency in the  Church.

 He must honestly state when he first learned about the crimes  committed by McCarrick, who abused his authority with seminarians and  priests. In any case, the Pope learned about it from me on June 23, 2013  and continued to cover him,” Vigano wrote. Now, these statements appear to have gotten the retired archbishop in  a world of hurt and the high-level catholic church officials may want  to silence him. This week, Italian blogger Aldo Maria Valli said that the archbishop  told him that he purchased an airplane ticket and that he would never  see him again.

 “He will leave the country. He cannot tell me where he is  going. I am not to look for him. His old mobile phone number will no  longer work. We say goodbye for the last time.” 

Valli said of what the archbishop told him. Valli’s claims were also backed up in a report for EWTN, in which Catholic journalist Edward Pentin confirmed it, saying Viganò fears for his safety and that his life is in danger. “Also what’s being discussed is the safety of archbishop Vigano,” Pentin reported on Monday. “He fears that by coming forth with a lot of these allegations that his life is actually in danger.” 

As OnePeterFive noted in a report,  a former apostolic nuncio, widely respected for his professionalism and  decency, forced to go into hiding at age 78 for simply telling the  truth about his fellow apostolic successors. There is perhaps more  wisdom in this than there appears to be at first glance. 

Viganò’s  colleague, Monsignor Jean François Lantheaume, whose job it was to  inform Cardinal McCarrick of the news that Pope Benedict XVI had levied  sanctions against him because of his abuses, said earlier this week, after confirming the veracity of the Viganò report: 

These may be the last lines I write… if I am  found chopped up by a chainsaw and my body sunk in concrete, the police  and the hacks will say that we have to consider the hypothesis of  suicide!!!

As TFTP reported earlier this month,  the recent revelations of abuse in the church is just the tip of the  iceberg. A scathing grand jury report revealed that hundreds of Catholic  priests in the state of Pennsylvania sexually abused young children, a  portion focuses specifically on Pittsburgh where nearly 100 priests are  accused of running a pedophile ring where they helped each other prey on  helpless children with no oversight. 

The report claims that at least 99 priests in the Pittsburgh Diocese  were involved in the pedophile ring—nine of whom were not named—and they  received help from local officials who refused to explore  investigations into the abuse because it was considered “bad publicity”  for the Catholic Church. 

The priests are accused of working together in a predatory ring that was ongoing for years in which they “manufactured  child pornography, shared intelligence on victims and gave large gold  crosses to certain boys to mark them as already being ‘groomed,’ for  abuse,” according to a report from Penn Live. 

The abuse has been ongoing for decades, victims have been warning us,  and no one has listened until now. If archbishop Vigano happens to  commit suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head, twice, we  may come to find out why it took decades for this disgusting ring of  predators to be exposed.