It [sex abuse] never happened in my diocese.” Before and after the election of Pope Francis in 2013, both the legacy and Catholic media reported very little about the newly elected pontiff’s record when it came to either engaging in or covering up the sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults. Even when the French investigative journalist, Martin Boudot, produced his 2017 documentary, Bishop Gustavo Zanchettaand Monsignor Battista Riccawho were accused of either abusing seminarians or engaging in homosexual conduct with numerous individuals. In the unlikely event that the College of Cardinals were to choose a North American as the next pope, lest someone say, “We never knew the pope covered up so much abuse when he was a cardinal,” let this article serve as evidence that “I warned you, but you didn’t listen.” Among the 137 cardinals currently eligible to vote in the next conclave, including ten from the United States, are cardinals like Robert McElroy, Joseph Tobin, Wilton Gregory …