"Why did Francis, knowing that Rupnik was additionally accused of gross sacrilegious assaults on former religious sisters, approve a plan to return him to parish ministry, meaning that Rupnik, despite vague talk of prosecuting him, remains a priest in good standing while Francis has not even met his accusers? Help me out, Claire [& all abuser enablers]!"
A member of the Vatican press corps, of , accuses me of being ‘ill-informed’ about Pope Francis. Here are five questions about which I do need information. Can she supply it?
1. Why did Francis lie on camera about commissioning a $1m report trying to exonerate Argentinian child abuser Fr Julio Grassi?
2. Why did Francis, having been informed that the now-convicted Bishop Zanchetta was a financially corrupt predator, make him Assessor of the Vatican Treasury when he had already resigned his see in disgrace?
3. Why did Zanchetta, according to signed testimony from senior clerics in Orán, claim that the Pope had personally advised him to hide the source of funds he used for various projects?
4. Why did Francis, having invited his Jesuit ally Fr Marko Rupnik to conduct a Vatican retreat while the latter was facing excommunication for absolving one of his sexual victims in the confessional, subsequently immediately lift the excommunication?
5. Why did Francis, knowing that Rupnik was additionally accused of gross sacrilegious assaults on former religious sisters, approve a plan to return him to parish ministry, meaning that Rupnik, despite vague talk of prosecuting him, remains a priest in good standing while Francis has not even met his accusers?
Help me out, Claire!
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