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Pope orders 'thorough study' of Vatican documents in McCarrick abuse case

Pope Francis leads the audience for Slovakia’s pilgrims at the Paul VI Hall in Vatican, October 6, 2018.

Pope Francis has ordered a “thorough study” of all documents in Vatican offices concerning disgraced former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, in the Holy See’s first response to accusations raised against the pontiff in the case.

In a document released in August, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the Vatican’s former ambassador to the United States, said the pope knew for years about sexual misconduct by McCarrick with adult male seminarians but did nothing about it.

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