'I failed': archbishop agrees he shut out victim, hears inquiry

Cardinal Vincent Nichols is also criticised for delaying church reforms and defending Vatican. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the most senior Catholic cleric in England and Wales, has been lambasted at the child sexual abuse inquiry for “shutting out” a complaint from a victim whom one priest privately dismissed as “deeply manipulative”. The archbishop of Westminster, 73, faced questions at the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) all day on Wednesday as its lea