should have a religious news thread or somethin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.27fad55f82eaSimmering opposition has suddenly exploded across the Catholic world, with a former Vatican ambassador accusing the pope of covering up sexual abuse — and demanding that Francis step down.
The accusations came in a 7,000-word letter written by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò that could be viewed as an act of courage or unprecedented defiance. Either way, it sheds light on the opposition movement, and particularly its insistence that homosexuality within the church — and Francis’s inability to keep it at bay — is to blame for the sexual abuse crisis.
“We are a step away from schism,” said Michael Sean Winters, a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter. “I think there is a perception among the pope’s critics that there is vulnerability here — on the part of the pope and in the Vatican generally.”
tldr longstanding conservative opposition to Pope Francis just erupted into an internal putsch within the Catholic Church trying to force him to resign using the sexual abuse scandals breaking out in Pennsylvania, Australia, and Chile, with a retired archbishop formally accusing Francis of protecting a pedophile cardinal.