From Crux Now:
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, then nuncio to the United States, congratulates then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington at a gala dinner sponsored by the Pontifical Missions Societies in New York in May 2012. The archbishop has since said McCarrick already was under sanctions at that time, including being banned from traveling and giving lectures. Oblate Father Andrew Small, center, director of the societies, said Viganò never tried to dissuade him from honoring the cardinal at the gala. (Credit: CNS photo/Michael Rogel, PMS.)
ROME – Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former nuncio to the United States who called on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly lifting sanctions placed on Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, now says those “sanctions” were “private” and neither he nor now-retired Pope Benedict XVI was ever able to enforce them.
While Vigano went into hiding after publishing his “testimony” Aug. 25 about McCarrick – and about Francis and a host of other current and former Vatican officials – the former nuncio has continued to speak to the writers who originally helped him publish the document. Francis has not said anything since Aug. 26 when he told reporters traveling with him to study the document and do their own research. Even if the sanctions were private, Vigano claimed Francis was aware of them.
Former nuncio now says sanctions against McCarrick were ‘private’