Gloria.tv's hort take on Ouellet's threatening letter to Archbishop Viganò, which I'm about to post in full.
From Gloria.tv
Cardinal Marc Ouellet replied on October 7 with an "Open Letter" to Archbishop Viganò who asked him in September to “bear witness to the truth”regarding the McCarrick case. But Ouellet now preferred to bear witness to his unconditional allegiance to Pope Francis' shortfalls.
Ouellet calls Viganò’s statements “incomprehensible and extremely reprehensible” because they “seriously affect the reputation of the Successors of the Apostles”.
He disputes “very much” that Francis was interested when Viganò spoke to him in June 2013 about the McCarrick case because - so Ouellet - McCarrick was already 82 years old and Francis was allegedly overwhelmed by the amount of information he received from other nuncios he met the same day.
Ouellet admits that as a Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops he has never brought up the McCarrick case to Francis until these recent days.
Further he disputes Viganò's statement that McCarrick was ever “sanctioned” by Benedict XVI [but this is a play on words], “The ex-cardinal, who had retired in May 2006, had been strongly urged not to travel and not to appear in public, in order not to provoke other rumours about him” as Ouellet puts it.
He claims that the Vatican [allegedly] did not have “sufficient proves” of McCarrick’s wrongdoings and he blames the Washington Nunciature for not produced “recent and decisive” information about the case.
Nevertheless, Ouellet wonders how McCarrick could make such a career [The answer is: because, as a liberal, he was protected by the media and the Church establishment].
The bulk of Ouellet’s letter are personal attacks against Viganò combined with indiscriminate hailing of Francis whom Ouellet calls at the end “an outstanding pastor, a compassionate and firm father, a prophetic grace for the Church and for the world”.
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