From The New York Times on Michael Barbaro, this is the name.

Today, an archbishop in the Catholic Church is accusing Hope Francis himself of being

part of the effort to cover up the latest sex abuse scandal.

What it means that that accusation is coming from inside the church.

It's Tuesday, August 28th.

So, Hope Francis went on a trip to Ireland that was highly anticipated because in May, Ireland took

their first steps to legalize abortion. And so, that was seen as a huge sign that the Catholic

Church in Ireland was no more in a certain sense. He was going to have to try and convince the Irish

to come back to a church that had treated them not very well. Ireland had suffered one of the worst

sexual abuse crises in all of Europe. So, the Pope had a tough trip ahead of him no matter what.

Jason Horowitz is the Rome Bureau Chief. And then we all wake up on Sunday morning and there's this letter.

So, this letter is a more than 7,000 word essentially,

screwed against Hope Francis and his allies in the American Church in the Vatican.

And it's a sort of a nuclear bomb that immediately becomes the focus of Francis' trip to Ireland.

I just want to begin by asking you about a story that's been emerging overnight. Alligations being

leveled against the Pope. Tell us about that.

Three things immediately stood out. The first was the accusation by Archbishop Vignot that

Francis had actually personally covered up the abuse of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of the United States.

Who of course resigned just a month ago as a Cardinal in Washington, D.C. The allegations surrounded the abuse of some seminary students.

McCarrick had been abusing seminarians and that Francis had this knowledge as far back as 2013.

The other accusation is that Francis' predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, actually sanctioned McCarrick.

That his abuse was so known inside the Church that the predecessor to Francis sanctioned him.

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