I have confirmed the above comment with the recipient, M. Louis Paul Arnaud on Facebook as being genuine. I am grateful to M. Arnaud for granting me permission to publish it here so that the world may come to know the depth of the evil and the danger to those who speak out. The whole conversation below is confirmed as genuine and is translated from the original French.
Louis Paul Arnaud
Is what he says true? His accusations against the Pope are very serious.
Jean François Lantheaume
All say the whole truth. I am a witness. The nuncio Vigano is the most honest Prelate that I know in the Vatican
Julien Fafart
That’s terrible, pray, the storm will be terrible
Jean François Lantheaume
Worse than you think Juju. Ready yourself…
Charly Blainville
You’re not reassuring us, dear Father!
Jean François Lantheaume
My goal is not to reassure you, but to tell the truth! Bishops are neither unscathed nor untouchable: they are all just as much sinners as are others !!! let it be said once and for all… they do not enjoy papal infallibility…! But of course as soon as one tries to tell the truth, you have your head cut off, or you “have a bad spirit”…. it’s been over twenty years since I said what I had to say…. now believe what you want, but I can tell you as being the direct witness that Vigano is telling the truth: I was the direct witness! these may be the last lines I write… if I am found chopped up by a chainsaw and my body sunk in concrete, the police and the hacks will say that we have to consider the hypothesis of suicide !!!
“Monsignor Jean-François Lantheaume, then first Counsellor of the Nunciature in Washington and Chargé d'Affaires ad interim after the unexpected death of Nuncio Sambi in Baltimore, told me when I arrived in Washington — and he is ready to testify to it — about a stormy conversation, lasting over an hour, that Nuncio Sambi had with Cardinal McCarrick whom he had summoned to the Nunciature. Monsignor Lantheaume told me that ‘the Nuncio’s voice could be heard all the way out in the corridor.’”
CNA contacted Msgr. Lantheaume and requested an interview with him to discuss the account attributed to him by Archbishop Viganò. Lantheaume, who has now left the Vatican diplomatic corps and serves in priestly ministry in France, declined to give an interview and said he had no intentions of speaking further on the matter.
“Viganò said the truth. That’s all,” he wrote to CNA.
