With no doubt at all, the drama unfolding around Pope Francis right now after an accusation that he ignored sexual misconduct warnings about ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick really has only two protagonists: Francis himself and the man making the charge, Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former papal ambassador to the United States.

However, the supporting cast of figures with bit parts in the story is so sprawling that a brief guide to the players is in order.

American lawyer Tim Busch
Busch is a prominent Catholic conservative in Orange County, California, and an attorney who owns luxury hotels and the Napa-based vineyard Trinitas Cellars. He’s also the founder of the “Napa Institute” and holds a yearly meeting at his Napa Valley resort for several hundred wealthy

Catholic philanthropists, with speakers generally representing a “who’s who” of the conservative Catholic world.

In 2017, he hosted a meeting for conservative Catholics in Trump Tower in Washington, D.C.

Soon after the Viganò letter was released, Busch told the New York Times that he had been made aware of the missive two weeks before its release.

Busch – who was also a co-honoree with Viganò at the Rector’s Dinner of the North American College, the national seminary of the U.S. hierarchy, in 2016 – has publicly praised Viganò for the great service he provided the Church in the release of his letter.

Italian journalist Marco Tosatti
Tosatti, known to a generation of Italians as the regular Vatican writer for .......http://naijachurchnews.com/whos-drama-cover-accusation-pope-francis/