Top Vatican cardinal accuses papal critic of ‘calumny and defamation’

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Cardinal Marc Ouellet talks during a news conference to announce the canonization of Fray Jun’pero Serra at the Vatican
Cardinal Marc Ouellet talks during a news conference to announce the canonisation of Fray Junipero Serra at the Vatican April 20, 2015. REUTERS/Tony Gentile

October 7, 2018

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A top Vatican official on Sunday issued a scathing open letter accusing an archbishop who launched an unprecedented attack on Pope Francis of mounting a “political frame job devoid of real foundation”.

Cardinal Marc Ouellet said in the detailed, three-page letter that calls by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano for the pope to resign because he had allegedly covered up sexual misconduct by a senior American Churchman were “calumny and defamation”.

(Reporting by Philip Pullella; editing by Agnieszka Flak)

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