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Archbishop Vigan\u00f2 congratulates Cardinal McCarrick of Washington at a gala dinner sponsored by the Pontifical Missions Societies in New York in May 2012 (CNS)<\/em><\/p>\n

Look at the picture. It says it all. Vigano (on the left) was the one man on US soil from 2011-2016 who could have done something about McCarrick (on the right). By his own<\/em>\u00a0confession, Vigano knew about McCarrick\u2019s crimes. But, as you see here, he wined and dined and feted McCarrick with papal medallions. They were ever so chummy.\u00a0 Then, this past summer, when McCarrick\u2019s crimes became public, Vigano realized the jig was up and people would demand to know why he did nothing.<\/p>\n

Solution: invent the lie that he had placed McCarrick under Double Secret Probation and then scream at the top of his lungs that Francis\u2013the one guy who had actually done something about McCarrick\u2013was the guilty party who lifted those imaginary sanctions and should RESIGN!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

It was easy.\u00a0 He, of course, did not not go to real media because they would have asked for evidence before publishing his phony \u201ctestimony\u201d.\u00a0 Indeed, when the Washington Post asked for such evidence, Vigano\u2019s response was to say that now was the time for \u201cprayer and silence\u201d before disappearing into hiding.\u00a0 So Vigano turned exclusively to hack right wing Catholic sites to break his phony story.\u00a0 And since he had in EWTN, Raymond Arroyo, the National Catholic Register, 1 Peter 5, Lifesite News and various other passionate members of the Francis-hating Right Wing Media a willing group of accomplices who have hungered for years to destroy Francis and achieve a palace coup, he knew he could count on them to marshal all their resources in a shock and awe campaign to destroy Francis and, most importantly, distract from his own failure to do a thing about McCarrick.<\/p>\n

The problem was, his lies quickly fell apart and he fled from view, refusing to provide any evidence for his lies. All that was left was the stench of the feces he had flung and a base of suckers and accomplices who did their best to smear it on and thickly as they could.\u00a0 That same base of suckers and accomplices now believe they are anointed by God to likewise heap all blame for the scandal on gays and libs while excusing themselves, like Vigano, for their utter failure to confront straight priests and their conservative enablers, like Vigano.<\/a><\/p>\n

So now Vigano is back, making an ostentatious display of public piety for the delectation of that same base. \u201c Repent! For the sake of your soul<\/a>!\u201d he dramatically says to McCarrick, the very man he failed to call to repentance when he had the power to do something about him.<\/p>\n

This is all\u2013100%\u2013CYA from Vigano. He is a master of pointing fingers to keep people from ever asking \u201cWhere were you<\/em>\u00a0from 2011-2016? Why did you<\/em>\u00a0do nothing when you yourself admit you knew?\u201d<\/p>\n

It is only natural that conservative Catholic culture warriors at war with the Francis since the day he was elected would fasten on this visible-from-space fraud as their hero.\u00a0 They have been so wrong about so much so many times for so long, why should they not be epically wrong here too?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"