COVER-UP ACCUSATION
Pope mum on sex abuse claim
He says statement "speaks for itself"
Pope Francis said on Sunday he will not respond to a former top Vatican official who accused him of having known for years of allegations of sex abuse by a prominent US cardinal, calling on the pontiff to resign in an unprecedented broadside against the pope by an insider. Francis, speaking to reporters on the papal plane returning from a trip to Dublin, said a statement containing the accusations "speaks for itself". In a detailed 11-page bombshell statement given to conservative Roman Catholic media outlets during the pope’s visit to Ireland, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano accused a long list of current and past Vatican and US church officials of covering up the case of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who resigned in July in disgrace. Reuters
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