The Council of Cardinal Advisors issued a statement today (September 10, 2018) expressing their "full solidarity with Pope Francis in the face of what has happened in these last weeks" -- namely the attack against him by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former Vatican ambassador to the United States, according to the America Magazine website.
The council added that it was aware that the Holy See is preparing "the eventual and necessary clarifications" in response to the grave allegations Archbishop Vigano made in August.
Archbishop Vigano had accused the pope of covering up the abuses committed by Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and of lifting the sanctions he believes Pope Benedict XVI imposed on the former Washington cardinal. Vigano also stunned the Catholic world by calling for Francis' resignation.
The council members said in their statement that the Vatican is preparing a response to what Archbishop Vigano stated in his letter, the contents of which have become a source of scandal and division in the Catholic Church -- particularly in the United States -- and a direct attack on the pope and his moral authority.
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