DUBLIN • On the final day of Pope Francis' mission to Ireland, as he issued candid apologies for devastating clerical sex abuse scandals, a former top Vatican diplomat alleged in a letter published last Sunday that the Pope had joined top Vatican officials in covering up the abuses and called for his resignation.
The bombshell letter written by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former top Vatican diplomat in the US and a staunch critic of the papal leader, seemed timed to do more than simply derail the Pope's uphill efforts to win back the Irish faithful, who have turned away from the Church in large numbers.
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