Never has the media so staunchly defended a Catholic like they have Pope Francis

It wasn’t long ago when the press took allegations of systemic sexual abuse within the Catholic Church seriously. It was The Boston Globe who broke their bombshell report in 2002 about the cover-up by the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston became a global controversy. And now 16 years later, another bombshell report reveals systemic abuse from the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania.

According to the report released by a grand jury earlier this month, leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania have been covering up the abuse of over 1,000 children committed by over 300 priests. It notes that “there are likely thousands more victims whose records were lost or who were too afraid to come forward.”

And since then, allegations of a coverup have reached The Vatican.

Former ambassador from the Vatican to the U.S. Archbishop Vigano claimed in a letter that Pope Francis was informed about the abuse by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick back in 2013 and that he had lifted the sanctions that were placed against the accused predator that were set by his predecessor Pope Benedict. Vigano urged the pope to resign.