07-13-2024, 10:00 PM
Defiant Archbishop Viganò: Another Blow to Pope Francis and the New World Order
By William F. Jasper
The New American
June 29, 2024
On June 20, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former Vatican insider turned whistleblower, revealed that he had been summoned to Rome to respond to “accusations and evidence concerning the crime of schism of which he has been accused.” He is charged with denying the legitimacy of Pope Francis, breaking union with him, and rejecting the Second Vatican Council. The “extrajudicial penal trial” is likely to result in the archbishop’s excommunication and dismissal from the priesthood. Viganò, who has been in hiding for the past several years (reportedly out of fear for his life), apparently did not show up for his trial on June 20. However, he has until June 28 to provide a written defense, or be judged in abscentia.
Archbishop Viganò posted the official decree from the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) on his website Exurge Domine (Latin for “Arise, O Lord,” from Psalm 10:12), along with his defiant 1,500-word response, in which he states, “I regard the accusations against me as an honor.”
“I assume,” he wrote, “that the sentence has already been prepared, given that it is an extrajudicial process.” Refusing to recognize the current pontificate as legitimate, Viganò regularly refers to Pope Francis by his family surname, Bergoglio.
“It is no coincidence,” says Viganò, “that the accusation against me concerns the questioning of the legitimacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and the rejection of Vatican II: the Council represents the ideological, theological, moral, and liturgical cancer of which the Bergoglian ‘synodal church’ is the necessary metastasis.”
Agenda 2030 and the “Davos Religion”
Moreover, Viganò accuses Pope Francis and his Vatican hierarchy of gross corruption and subversion of the Catholic Faith, in concert with the globalists of the UN and the World Economic Forum:
It is necessary for the Episcopate, the Clergy and the People of God to seriously ask themselves whether it is consistent with the profession of the Catholic Faith to passively witness the systematic destruction of the Church by its leaders, just as other subversives are destroying civil society. Globalism calls for ethnic substitution: Bergoglio promotes uncontrolled immigration and calls for the integration of cultures and religions. Globalism supports LGBTQ+ ideology: Bergoglio authorizes the blessing of same-sex couples and imposes on the faithful the acceptance of homosexualism, while covering up the scandals of his protégés and promoting them to the highest positions of responsibility. Globalism imposes the green agenda: Bergoglio worships the idol of the Pachamama, writes delirious encyclicals about the environment, supports the Agenda 2030, and attacks those who question the theory of man-made global warming. He goes beyond his role in matters that strictly pertain to science, but always and only in one direction: a direction that is diametrically opposed to what the Church has always taught.
These themes, particularly concerning the machinations of globalist elites, “The Great Reset” of the World Economic Forum, and Agenda 2030 of the UN, have featured prominently in video messages produced by the archbishop over the past several years, as in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fngQd4i2NYw
As in his previous public letters, Viganò’s latest salvo also indicts Pope Francis for his violation of Catholic teaching and his subservience to Big Pharma and Communist China with regard to mandating the experimental Covid jab as a “moral duty.” The archbishop writes:
He has mandated the use of experimental gene serums, which caused very serious damage, death and sterility, calling them “an act of love,” in exchange for funding from pharmaceutical companies and philanthropic foundations. His total alignment with the Davos religion is scandalous. Wherever governments at the service of the World Economic Forum have introduced or extended abortion, promoted vice, legitimized homosexual unions or gender transition, encouraged euthanasia, and tolerated the persecution of Catholics, not a word has been spent in defense of the Faith or Morals that are threatened, or in support of the civil battles of so many Catholics who have been abandoned by the Vatican and the Bishops. Not a word for the persecuted Catholics in China, with the complicity of the Holy See, which considers Beijing’s billions more important than the lives and freedom of thousands of Chinese who are faithful to the Roman Church.
“Everything that Bergoglio does constitutes an offense and a provocation to the entire Catholic Church, to her Saints of all times, to the Martyrs who were killed in odium Fidei, and to the Popes of all times until the Second Vatican Council,” Viganò charges. He continues, “This is also and principally an offense against the Divine Head of the Church, Our Lord Jesus Christ, Whose sacred authority Bergoglio claims to exercise for the detriment of the Mystical Body, with an action that is too systematic and coherent to appear to be the fruit of mere incapacity.”
Origins of the Viganò “Threat”
The Vatican’s current move against Archbishop Viganò has been brewing since at least August 22, 2018, when he released his blistering “Testimony” accusing Pope Francis and his circle of prominent clerics of knowingly and willfully promoting active homosexuals in the church hierarchy and engaging in a massive “conspiracy of silence” to cover up their crimes and discredit their victims. Of central concern in his testimony was Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, D.C., preeminent church powerbroker, and pal of Francis. “Uncle Ted” McCarrick was credibly accused of sexual abuse of an altar boy and seminarians. Although McCarrick’s homosexual activities had been publicly known for many years, Archbishop Viganò was the instrument who made the cardinal’s notorious record formally public and forced McCarrick’s “retirement.” In 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Viganò as Apostolic Nuncio (in effect, ambassador) to the United States, with one of his duties being to investigate clerical sex-abuse cases. By that time, due to his previous post as secretary general of the Vatican City governorate (considered the number three position below the pope), Vigano was already aware of the seriousness of the sex-abuse crisis in general and of Cardinal McCarrick in particular.
According to Viganò, as early as 2006 he sent a memo to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone detailing McCarrick’s offenses and recommending severe penalties against him to set an example and show that the Church is serious about not tolerating the abuses. As a result of Vigano’s reports, Pope Benedict had placed sanctions on McCarrick, ordering him to move out of the seminary where he had been living, restricting his travel, and prohibiting him from celebrating sacraments publicly or making other public appearances.
Pope Francis, despite his repeated avowals of “zero tolerance” toward clerical sex offenders, has racked up a deplorable record. In addition to letting McCarrick out of the dog house to travel freely, he, astoundingly, made the predatory pervert his emissary to China, where he negotiated a secret agreement with the Chinese Communist Party that Hong Kong’s heroic Cardinal Joseph Zen called a betrayal of China’s persecuted Catholics. Finally, after McCarrick’s flagrant homosexual activity had become a major PR problem, Pope Francis laicized him, a move that many critics see as a coverup to spare McCarrick from a canonical trial that might expose Pope Francis, and many other high-level church officials, as being complicit in McCarrick’s crimes.
However, McCarrick (now an ex-cardinal, the first to be forced to resign over homosexual charges) is but the tip of a very large iceberg. While it is natural for an iceberg to shrink, the sodomite iceberg within the Church has been dramatically growing since the Second Vatican Council. The “liberalizing” influences unleashed by Vatican II (held from 1962 to 1965) have produced widespread devastation of the vineyard of the Lord. In his August 22, 2018 “Testimony” and in subsequent releases, Archbishop Viganò has named prominent prelates who are accomplices of the McCarrick pederast lobby within the Church (whether as homosexual practitioners, promoters, or protectors — or all of the above). They include such leading churchmen as Cardinals Tarcisio Bertone, Pietro Parolin, Godfried Danneels, Angelo Sodano, Donald Wuerl, Blasé Cupich, Robert McElroy, Joseph W. Tobin, Reinhard Marx, Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Víctor Manuel Fernández, and Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga.
From the moment he released his 2018 Testimony (if not before), Archbishop Viganò was a marked man. The pro-LGBTQ faction within the church hierarchy has expanded alarmingly under Pope Francis and is decidedly hostile toward Catholics who challenge the “progressive” agenda, especially regarding issues of sexual morality. And despite the wrecked lives of thousands of sexually abused victims, despite the exodus caused by the horrendous scandal of ongoing abuses, despite the bankruptcy of dioceses due to lawsuits, despite the resulting unprecedented closing of churches, and despite repeated claims of zero tolerance, Pope Francis and the Lavender Lobby have presided over an expansion of clerical sexual abuse, while at the same time attacking the faithful Catholics who attend the Traditional Latin Mass and truthtellers who expose the homosexual cancer infecting the Church.
Viganò Treatment vs. McCarrick, Rupnik, Martin, et al.
It has not escaped the notice of many critics that “justice” under the pontificate of Pope Francis, like that under Francis’s political pal Joe Biden, has been marked by a striking double standard. Father Frank Pavone, founder and national director of Priests for Life, for instance, was canceled and defrocked for doing what Catholic priests are supposed to do: opposing abortion, saving babies, saving souls. Likewise, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, was removed for being too traditional, for urging the U.S. bishops to take a stronger stand in the sex-abuse crisis, and for speaking to the Catholic rally at Dodger Stadium that opposed the Dodgers’ honoring of the notoriously anti-Catholic and sacrilegious homosexual drag queens known as the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”
Compare the steel-fist treatment in those and similar cases to the velvet-glove handling of serial sex offender Father Marko Rupnik, a “Friend of Francis” who mysteriously had his excommunication lifted, apparently through the intervention of the pope. Pope Francis has denied intervening, but his disavowal is hardly credible considering the circumstances and the fact that Rupnik’s penalty was removed (an extraordinary action) only three days after the pope met with Rupnik’s longtime colleague and defender Maria Campatelli. (See here, here, and here.)
Papal Resignation?
Although the McCarrick and Rupnik cases have generated widespread media coverage (and a considerable amount of criticism of Pope Francis), they represent but a fraction of the “crimes” attributed to the pontiff by prominent Catholic critics. In May, a group of 17 Catholic scholars, theologians, and professors issued a statement calling on Pope Francis to resign for having caused, by his words and actions, “an unprecedented crisis in the Catholic Church” and for having “done great harm to the Church and the whole world.”
In addition to listing seven examples of the canonical crime of heresy, the group states, “The crimes committed by Pope Francis, such as his protection of sexual abusers, are in some cases crimes by the standards of the laws of sovereign states, as well as being moral and canonical crimes.”
The group’s statement lists more than two dozen actions involving his protection and promotion of clerics who have been credibly accused (and in some cases already prosecuted and convicted) of committing or covering up sex-abuse crimes. These actions by Pope Francis, they charge, are “crimes because they violate either canon law, the law of temporal states, the natural law, divine positive law, or some combination of laws from these different legal systems.”
“We therefore call for Pope Francis to resign the papal office, and to repent and do penance for his actions,” say the signatories to the statement. And if he doesn’t resign, then what? “If he does not do this, we request that the cardinals and bishops of the Catholic Church ask Pope Francis to resign the office of pope,” the statement reads, and then adds, “If he refuses to resign or recant the heresies that he has upheld, we ask that they declare that he has lost the papal office.”
Viganò Rejects Vatican Summons
Back to Archbishop Viganò. On June 21, the archbishop took to social media (X, formerly Twitter) to correct erroneous news reports claiming that he had presented himself in Rome the previous day for trial.
“I therefore wish to make it clear,” Viganò states, “that I did not go to the Vatican yesterday [June 20], and that I have no intention of going to the Holy Office on June 28, and that I have not delivered any statement or document in my defense to the Dicastery, whose authority I do not recognize, nor do I recognize the authority of its Prefect, nor do I recognize the authority of the one who appointed him.”
While Archbishop Viganò is dismissed by Church and media defenders of Pope Francis as a crackpot conspiracy theorist, the many alarming charges he has laid at the feet of the current pontiff are increasingly recognized by Catholics and non-Catholics alike as factually true. And although even many of his current and erstwhile supporters among conservatives and traditionalists are not on board with his claim that Jorge Bergoglio is not now, and never was, legitimately the pope, nearly every new day seems to bring new examples of scandalous (or even heretical) statements and actions by Pope Francis. One thing seems certain: Archbishop Viganò is not going away any time soon, and his revelations and accusations are likely to lead to increased calls for the pope’s resignation.
Katisch A. 17 days ago
The gates of hell will not prevail against the church. Look at Joan of Arc! She was excommunicated and burned at the stake. Never abandon the church that Christ himself built. If you had a chance to jump on Noah's arc, as stinky as it was from all the animals and knew it was the only real thing that could save you, would you refuse to board because it was full of stinky animals? The people of the church is full of sinners. It is the only hospital on earth that has the body, blood soul and divinity of Christ -- the real presence of Christ on earth in the Eucharist. Why or better yet, how could you abandon that?
https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/eu...rld-order/
Vatican says Archbishop Viganò ‘guilty’ of schism and excommunicated
Vatican charges Archbishop Viganò with schism for ‘denial of the legitimacy of Pope Francis’
Pope Francis' Vatican announced it had found former Nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Viganò 'guilty of the reserved delict of schism' on July 4, and that consequently he is automatically excommunicated.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) announced July 5 that it had declared former U.S Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to be guilty of “schism” and automatically excommunicated.
In a statement issued without warning to the Holy See press corps, the DDF stated that its Congress met on July 4 to decide against Viganò. The statement read:
On 4 July 2024, the Congress of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith met to conclude the extrajudicial penal process referred to in canon 1720 CIC against the Most Reverend Carlo Maria Viganò, titular Archbishop of Ulpiana, accused of the reserved delict of schism (canons 751 and 1364 CIC; art. 2 SST).
His public statements manifesting his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff, his rejection of communion with the members of the Church subject to him, and of the legitimacy and magisterial authority of the Second Vatican Council are well known.
At the conclusion of the penal process, the Most Reverend Carlo Maria Viganò was found guilty of the reserved delict of schism.
The Dicastery declared the latae sententiae excommunication in accordance with canon 1364 § 1 CIC. The lifting of the censure in these cases is reserved to the Apostolic See. This decision was communicated to the Most Reverend Viganò on 5 July 2024.
Under the terms of the latest edition of Canon Law, one who is excommunicated is prohibited from offering the sacraments.
On June 20, Viganò revealed that the DDF had, by way of a letter dated June 11, begun an “extrajudicial penal trial” against him, accusing the prelate of “the crime of schism.”
Issued by Monsignor John Kennedy, who leads the DDF’S Disciplinary Section, the Vatican’s letter alerted him to “the crime of schism of which he has been accused (public statements which result in a denial of the elements necessary to maintain communion with the Catholic Church; denial of the legitimacy of Pope Francis; a rupture of communion with him; and rejection of the Second Vatican Council).”
@CarloMVigano excommunicated by same Vatican that rehabilitated sex abuser Rupnik
Rebuffing the accusation, Viganò stated at the time that “I claim, as Successor of the Apostles, to be in full communion with the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, with the Magisterium of the Roman Pontiffs, and with the uninterrupted doctrinal, moral, and liturgical Tradition which they have faithfully preserved.”
He further added that “I repudiate, reject, and condemn the scandals, errors, and heresies of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who manifests an absolutely tyrannical management of power, exercised against the purpose that legitimizes authority in the Church: an authority that is vicarious of that of Christ, and as such must obey Him alone.”
In an expansive statement issued June 28, the former U.S. nuncio issued a blistering response to the DDF’s charge of schism, attesting that “[a] schismatic sect accuses me of schism: this should be enough to demonstrate the subversion taking place.”
Continuing, the archbishop stated:
… in order to separate myself from ecclesial communion with Jorge Mario Bergoglio, I would have to have first been in communion with him, which is not possible since Bergoglio himself cannot be considered a member of the Church, due to his multiple heresies and his manifest alienness and incompatibility with the role he invalidly and illicitly holds.
Turning the Vatican’s charges against them, Viganò then accused Pope Francis of schism, writing:
I accuse Jorge Mario Bergoglio of heresy and schism, and I ask that he be judged as a heretic and schismatic and removed from the throne which he has unworthily occupied for over 11 years. This in no way contradicts the adage Prima Sedes a nemine judicatur, because it is evident that, since a heretic is unable to assume the Papacy, he is not above the Prelates who judge him.
Archbishop Viganò has been contacted for comment in response to the Vatican’s ruling, and this report will be updated accordingly.
cybro
Fri, Jul 5 2024
My only question is how much longer can this World Wide Satanic Clown Show continue ???
Mel Gibson Writes Open Letter in Support to Archbishop Viganò: Excommunication by Pope Francis “Is Like a Badge of Honor”
The Gateway Pundit | Margaret Flavin
Actor and film director Mel Gibson sent a letter of encouragement to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò after Red Pope Francis excommunicated him last week. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò was found guilty of ‘schism’
The Archbishop announced that he had not attended his Vatican ‘schism’ trial and, in a powerful statement and indictment of the Vatican and Pope Francis, argued that he is not in schism with the Catholic Church.
Instead, he accuses the Pope ‘of heresy and schism’ and requests he be ‘removed from the throne which he has unworthily occupied for over 11 years.’
Archbishop Carlo Viganò, a friend of the faithful and dedicated to the Church and sharing the word of Jesus Christ, has been outspoken against the destruction of the Church, COVID mandates, and stolen elections. He has called out the current Pope for his destructive actions against the Church and has warned about the World Economic Forum.
Gibson’s letter to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò appeared first on the website of Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli.
In a YouTube video two years ago, Gibson shared his thoughts about the Coalition for Canceled Priests, Pope Francis, Archbishop Viganò, and Bad Bishops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nlu25gfpl0
The Vatican Is More Interested in Silencing Viganò Than Addressing His Allegations
While Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is excommunicated, the same Vatican tolerates and even supports figures like Theodore McCarrick and others who abuse and challenge Church teaching.
By Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
July 8, 2024
We find ourselves at a strange moment in Church history when Archbishop Viganò is excommunicated swiftly while Theodore McCarrick remains unexcommunicated after years of his crimes against the Church have come to light.
We should look closely at a Vatican that operates in this manner. Rather than addressing the serious questions and allegations Archbishop Viganò raises, he is summarily removed from the Church with an apparent motive to silence him. Meanwhile McCarrick and a lengthy list of others have promoted a culture that ignores or wants to change Church teachings and their voices are allowed and even overtly supported.
It seems we are left with only stones to cry out for justice because the voices of faithful disciples are mute, ignored, or even silenced.
From St. Pius V, by Roberto de Mattei, “The new pope appeared to be a man moved only by the desire to restore the ancient splendor of the Holy See by means of improving customs and battling against errors.”
May this quotation remind us that the “splendor of the Holy See” is always about the glory of Jesus Christ. There is no splendor without fidelity to Christ and the only value of worldly splendor is that it points us to God.
By William F. Jasper
The New American
June 29, 2024
On June 20, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former Vatican insider turned whistleblower, revealed that he had been summoned to Rome to respond to “accusations and evidence concerning the crime of schism of which he has been accused.” He is charged with denying the legitimacy of Pope Francis, breaking union with him, and rejecting the Second Vatican Council. The “extrajudicial penal trial” is likely to result in the archbishop’s excommunication and dismissal from the priesthood. Viganò, who has been in hiding for the past several years (reportedly out of fear for his life), apparently did not show up for his trial on June 20. However, he has until June 28 to provide a written defense, or be judged in abscentia.
Archbishop Viganò posted the official decree from the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) on his website Exurge Domine (Latin for “Arise, O Lord,” from Psalm 10:12), along with his defiant 1,500-word response, in which he states, “I regard the accusations against me as an honor.”
“I assume,” he wrote, “that the sentence has already been prepared, given that it is an extrajudicial process.” Refusing to recognize the current pontificate as legitimate, Viganò regularly refers to Pope Francis by his family surname, Bergoglio.
“It is no coincidence,” says Viganò, “that the accusation against me concerns the questioning of the legitimacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and the rejection of Vatican II: the Council represents the ideological, theological, moral, and liturgical cancer of which the Bergoglian ‘synodal church’ is the necessary metastasis.”
Agenda 2030 and the “Davos Religion”
Moreover, Viganò accuses Pope Francis and his Vatican hierarchy of gross corruption and subversion of the Catholic Faith, in concert with the globalists of the UN and the World Economic Forum:
It is necessary for the Episcopate, the Clergy and the People of God to seriously ask themselves whether it is consistent with the profession of the Catholic Faith to passively witness the systematic destruction of the Church by its leaders, just as other subversives are destroying civil society. Globalism calls for ethnic substitution: Bergoglio promotes uncontrolled immigration and calls for the integration of cultures and religions. Globalism supports LGBTQ+ ideology: Bergoglio authorizes the blessing of same-sex couples and imposes on the faithful the acceptance of homosexualism, while covering up the scandals of his protégés and promoting them to the highest positions of responsibility. Globalism imposes the green agenda: Bergoglio worships the idol of the Pachamama, writes delirious encyclicals about the environment, supports the Agenda 2030, and attacks those who question the theory of man-made global warming. He goes beyond his role in matters that strictly pertain to science, but always and only in one direction: a direction that is diametrically opposed to what the Church has always taught.
These themes, particularly concerning the machinations of globalist elites, “The Great Reset” of the World Economic Forum, and Agenda 2030 of the UN, have featured prominently in video messages produced by the archbishop over the past several years, as in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fngQd4i2NYw
As in his previous public letters, Viganò’s latest salvo also indicts Pope Francis for his violation of Catholic teaching and his subservience to Big Pharma and Communist China with regard to mandating the experimental Covid jab as a “moral duty.” The archbishop writes:
He has mandated the use of experimental gene serums, which caused very serious damage, death and sterility, calling them “an act of love,” in exchange for funding from pharmaceutical companies and philanthropic foundations. His total alignment with the Davos religion is scandalous. Wherever governments at the service of the World Economic Forum have introduced or extended abortion, promoted vice, legitimized homosexual unions or gender transition, encouraged euthanasia, and tolerated the persecution of Catholics, not a word has been spent in defense of the Faith or Morals that are threatened, or in support of the civil battles of so many Catholics who have been abandoned by the Vatican and the Bishops. Not a word for the persecuted Catholics in China, with the complicity of the Holy See, which considers Beijing’s billions more important than the lives and freedom of thousands of Chinese who are faithful to the Roman Church.
“Everything that Bergoglio does constitutes an offense and a provocation to the entire Catholic Church, to her Saints of all times, to the Martyrs who were killed in odium Fidei, and to the Popes of all times until the Second Vatican Council,” Viganò charges. He continues, “This is also and principally an offense against the Divine Head of the Church, Our Lord Jesus Christ, Whose sacred authority Bergoglio claims to exercise for the detriment of the Mystical Body, with an action that is too systematic and coherent to appear to be the fruit of mere incapacity.”
Origins of the Viganò “Threat”
The Vatican’s current move against Archbishop Viganò has been brewing since at least August 22, 2018, when he released his blistering “Testimony” accusing Pope Francis and his circle of prominent clerics of knowingly and willfully promoting active homosexuals in the church hierarchy and engaging in a massive “conspiracy of silence” to cover up their crimes and discredit their victims. Of central concern in his testimony was Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington, D.C., preeminent church powerbroker, and pal of Francis. “Uncle Ted” McCarrick was credibly accused of sexual abuse of an altar boy and seminarians. Although McCarrick’s homosexual activities had been publicly known for many years, Archbishop Viganò was the instrument who made the cardinal’s notorious record formally public and forced McCarrick’s “retirement.” In 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Viganò as Apostolic Nuncio (in effect, ambassador) to the United States, with one of his duties being to investigate clerical sex-abuse cases. By that time, due to his previous post as secretary general of the Vatican City governorate (considered the number three position below the pope), Vigano was already aware of the seriousness of the sex-abuse crisis in general and of Cardinal McCarrick in particular.
According to Viganò, as early as 2006 he sent a memo to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone detailing McCarrick’s offenses and recommending severe penalties against him to set an example and show that the Church is serious about not tolerating the abuses. As a result of Vigano’s reports, Pope Benedict had placed sanctions on McCarrick, ordering him to move out of the seminary where he had been living, restricting his travel, and prohibiting him from celebrating sacraments publicly or making other public appearances.
Pope Francis, despite his repeated avowals of “zero tolerance” toward clerical sex offenders, has racked up a deplorable record. In addition to letting McCarrick out of the dog house to travel freely, he, astoundingly, made the predatory pervert his emissary to China, where he negotiated a secret agreement with the Chinese Communist Party that Hong Kong’s heroic Cardinal Joseph Zen called a betrayal of China’s persecuted Catholics. Finally, after McCarrick’s flagrant homosexual activity had become a major PR problem, Pope Francis laicized him, a move that many critics see as a coverup to spare McCarrick from a canonical trial that might expose Pope Francis, and many other high-level church officials, as being complicit in McCarrick’s crimes.
However, McCarrick (now an ex-cardinal, the first to be forced to resign over homosexual charges) is but the tip of a very large iceberg. While it is natural for an iceberg to shrink, the sodomite iceberg within the Church has been dramatically growing since the Second Vatican Council. The “liberalizing” influences unleashed by Vatican II (held from 1962 to 1965) have produced widespread devastation of the vineyard of the Lord. In his August 22, 2018 “Testimony” and in subsequent releases, Archbishop Viganò has named prominent prelates who are accomplices of the McCarrick pederast lobby within the Church (whether as homosexual practitioners, promoters, or protectors — or all of the above). They include such leading churchmen as Cardinals Tarcisio Bertone, Pietro Parolin, Godfried Danneels, Angelo Sodano, Donald Wuerl, Blasé Cupich, Robert McElroy, Joseph W. Tobin, Reinhard Marx, Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Víctor Manuel Fernández, and Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga.
From the moment he released his 2018 Testimony (if not before), Archbishop Viganò was a marked man. The pro-LGBTQ faction within the church hierarchy has expanded alarmingly under Pope Francis and is decidedly hostile toward Catholics who challenge the “progressive” agenda, especially regarding issues of sexual morality. And despite the wrecked lives of thousands of sexually abused victims, despite the exodus caused by the horrendous scandal of ongoing abuses, despite the bankruptcy of dioceses due to lawsuits, despite the resulting unprecedented closing of churches, and despite repeated claims of zero tolerance, Pope Francis and the Lavender Lobby have presided over an expansion of clerical sexual abuse, while at the same time attacking the faithful Catholics who attend the Traditional Latin Mass and truthtellers who expose the homosexual cancer infecting the Church.
Viganò Treatment vs. McCarrick, Rupnik, Martin, et al.
It has not escaped the notice of many critics that “justice” under the pontificate of Pope Francis, like that under Francis’s political pal Joe Biden, has been marked by a striking double standard. Father Frank Pavone, founder and national director of Priests for Life, for instance, was canceled and defrocked for doing what Catholic priests are supposed to do: opposing abortion, saving babies, saving souls. Likewise, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, was removed for being too traditional, for urging the U.S. bishops to take a stronger stand in the sex-abuse crisis, and for speaking to the Catholic rally at Dodger Stadium that opposed the Dodgers’ honoring of the notoriously anti-Catholic and sacrilegious homosexual drag queens known as the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”
Compare the steel-fist treatment in those and similar cases to the velvet-glove handling of serial sex offender Father Marko Rupnik, a “Friend of Francis” who mysteriously had his excommunication lifted, apparently through the intervention of the pope. Pope Francis has denied intervening, but his disavowal is hardly credible considering the circumstances and the fact that Rupnik’s penalty was removed (an extraordinary action) only three days after the pope met with Rupnik’s longtime colleague and defender Maria Campatelli. (See here, here, and here.)
Papal Resignation?
Although the McCarrick and Rupnik cases have generated widespread media coverage (and a considerable amount of criticism of Pope Francis), they represent but a fraction of the “crimes” attributed to the pontiff by prominent Catholic critics. In May, a group of 17 Catholic scholars, theologians, and professors issued a statement calling on Pope Francis to resign for having caused, by his words and actions, “an unprecedented crisis in the Catholic Church” and for having “done great harm to the Church and the whole world.”
In addition to listing seven examples of the canonical crime of heresy, the group states, “The crimes committed by Pope Francis, such as his protection of sexual abusers, are in some cases crimes by the standards of the laws of sovereign states, as well as being moral and canonical crimes.”
The group’s statement lists more than two dozen actions involving his protection and promotion of clerics who have been credibly accused (and in some cases already prosecuted and convicted) of committing or covering up sex-abuse crimes. These actions by Pope Francis, they charge, are “crimes because they violate either canon law, the law of temporal states, the natural law, divine positive law, or some combination of laws from these different legal systems.”
“We therefore call for Pope Francis to resign the papal office, and to repent and do penance for his actions,” say the signatories to the statement. And if he doesn’t resign, then what? “If he does not do this, we request that the cardinals and bishops of the Catholic Church ask Pope Francis to resign the office of pope,” the statement reads, and then adds, “If he refuses to resign or recant the heresies that he has upheld, we ask that they declare that he has lost the papal office.”
Viganò Rejects Vatican Summons
Back to Archbishop Viganò. On June 21, the archbishop took to social media (X, formerly Twitter) to correct erroneous news reports claiming that he had presented himself in Rome the previous day for trial.
“I therefore wish to make it clear,” Viganò states, “that I did not go to the Vatican yesterday [June 20], and that I have no intention of going to the Holy Office on June 28, and that I have not delivered any statement or document in my defense to the Dicastery, whose authority I do not recognize, nor do I recognize the authority of its Prefect, nor do I recognize the authority of the one who appointed him.”
While Archbishop Viganò is dismissed by Church and media defenders of Pope Francis as a crackpot conspiracy theorist, the many alarming charges he has laid at the feet of the current pontiff are increasingly recognized by Catholics and non-Catholics alike as factually true. And although even many of his current and erstwhile supporters among conservatives and traditionalists are not on board with his claim that Jorge Bergoglio is not now, and never was, legitimately the pope, nearly every new day seems to bring new examples of scandalous (or even heretical) statements and actions by Pope Francis. One thing seems certain: Archbishop Viganò is not going away any time soon, and his revelations and accusations are likely to lead to increased calls for the pope’s resignation.
Katisch A. 17 days ago
The gates of hell will not prevail against the church. Look at Joan of Arc! She was excommunicated and burned at the stake. Never abandon the church that Christ himself built. If you had a chance to jump on Noah's arc, as stinky as it was from all the animals and knew it was the only real thing that could save you, would you refuse to board because it was full of stinky animals? The people of the church is full of sinners. It is the only hospital on earth that has the body, blood soul and divinity of Christ -- the real presence of Christ on earth in the Eucharist. Why or better yet, how could you abandon that?
https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/eu...rld-order/
Vatican says Archbishop Viganò ‘guilty’ of schism and excommunicated
Vatican charges Archbishop Viganò with schism for ‘denial of the legitimacy of Pope Francis’
Pope Francis' Vatican announced it had found former Nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Viganò 'guilty of the reserved delict of schism' on July 4, and that consequently he is automatically excommunicated.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) announced July 5 that it had declared former U.S Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to be guilty of “schism” and automatically excommunicated.
In a statement issued without warning to the Holy See press corps, the DDF stated that its Congress met on July 4 to decide against Viganò. The statement read:
On 4 July 2024, the Congress of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith met to conclude the extrajudicial penal process referred to in canon 1720 CIC against the Most Reverend Carlo Maria Viganò, titular Archbishop of Ulpiana, accused of the reserved delict of schism (canons 751 and 1364 CIC; art. 2 SST).
His public statements manifesting his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff, his rejection of communion with the members of the Church subject to him, and of the legitimacy and magisterial authority of the Second Vatican Council are well known.
At the conclusion of the penal process, the Most Reverend Carlo Maria Viganò was found guilty of the reserved delict of schism.
The Dicastery declared the latae sententiae excommunication in accordance with canon 1364 § 1 CIC. The lifting of the censure in these cases is reserved to the Apostolic See. This decision was communicated to the Most Reverend Viganò on 5 July 2024.
Under the terms of the latest edition of Canon Law, one who is excommunicated is prohibited from offering the sacraments.
On June 20, Viganò revealed that the DDF had, by way of a letter dated June 11, begun an “extrajudicial penal trial” against him, accusing the prelate of “the crime of schism.”
Issued by Monsignor John Kennedy, who leads the DDF’S Disciplinary Section, the Vatican’s letter alerted him to “the crime of schism of which he has been accused (public statements which result in a denial of the elements necessary to maintain communion with the Catholic Church; denial of the legitimacy of Pope Francis; a rupture of communion with him; and rejection of the Second Vatican Council).”
@CarloMVigano excommunicated by same Vatican that rehabilitated sex abuser Rupnik
Rebuffing the accusation, Viganò stated at the time that “I claim, as Successor of the Apostles, to be in full communion with the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, with the Magisterium of the Roman Pontiffs, and with the uninterrupted doctrinal, moral, and liturgical Tradition which they have faithfully preserved.”
He further added that “I repudiate, reject, and condemn the scandals, errors, and heresies of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who manifests an absolutely tyrannical management of power, exercised against the purpose that legitimizes authority in the Church: an authority that is vicarious of that of Christ, and as such must obey Him alone.”
In an expansive statement issued June 28, the former U.S. nuncio issued a blistering response to the DDF’s charge of schism, attesting that “[a] schismatic sect accuses me of schism: this should be enough to demonstrate the subversion taking place.”
Continuing, the archbishop stated:
… in order to separate myself from ecclesial communion with Jorge Mario Bergoglio, I would have to have first been in communion with him, which is not possible since Bergoglio himself cannot be considered a member of the Church, due to his multiple heresies and his manifest alienness and incompatibility with the role he invalidly and illicitly holds.
Turning the Vatican’s charges against them, Viganò then accused Pope Francis of schism, writing:
I accuse Jorge Mario Bergoglio of heresy and schism, and I ask that he be judged as a heretic and schismatic and removed from the throne which he has unworthily occupied for over 11 years. This in no way contradicts the adage Prima Sedes a nemine judicatur, because it is evident that, since a heretic is unable to assume the Papacy, he is not above the Prelates who judge him.
Archbishop Viganò has been contacted for comment in response to the Vatican’s ruling, and this report will be updated accordingly.
cybro
Fri, Jul 5 2024
My only question is how much longer can this World Wide Satanic Clown Show continue ???
Mel Gibson Writes Open Letter in Support to Archbishop Viganò: Excommunication by Pope Francis “Is Like a Badge of Honor”
The Gateway Pundit | Margaret Flavin
Actor and film director Mel Gibson sent a letter of encouragement to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò after Red Pope Francis excommunicated him last week. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò was found guilty of ‘schism’
The Archbishop announced that he had not attended his Vatican ‘schism’ trial and, in a powerful statement and indictment of the Vatican and Pope Francis, argued that he is not in schism with the Catholic Church.
Instead, he accuses the Pope ‘of heresy and schism’ and requests he be ‘removed from the throne which he has unworthily occupied for over 11 years.’
Archbishop Carlo Viganò, a friend of the faithful and dedicated to the Church and sharing the word of Jesus Christ, has been outspoken against the destruction of the Church, COVID mandates, and stolen elections. He has called out the current Pope for his destructive actions against the Church and has warned about the World Economic Forum.
Gibson’s letter to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò appeared first on the website of Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli.
Quote: Dear Archbishop,
I’m sure you expected nothing else from Jorge Bergoglio.
I know that you know he has no authority whatsoever – so I’m not sure how this will effect you going forward. I hope you will continue to say Mass and receive the sacraments yourself – it really is a badge of honor to be shunned by the false, post conciliar church.
You have my sympathies that you suffer publicly this grave injustice. To me and many others you are a most courageous hero.
As always, you have hit the nail on the head regarding the illegitimacy of Francis. You express the core problems with the institution that has eclipsed the true church and I applaud your courage in expressing that, but more than that in maintaining fidelity to the true Church!
You are a modern day Athanasius! I have all respect for the way you defend Christ and His Church. I agree with you 100% that the post conciliar church of Vatican II is a counterfeit church. This is why I built a Catholic church that only worships traditionally. You are welcome to come and say Mass there anytime.
Of course being called a schismatic and being excommunicated by Jorge Bergoglio is like a badge of honor when you consider he is a total apostate and expels you from a false institution.
Remember that true schism requires innovation, something you have not done but something that Bergoglio does with every breath.
He, therefore, is the schismatic! However he already ipso facto excommunicated himself by his many public heresies (canon 188 in the 1917 code).
As you already know he has no power to excommunicate you because he is not even a Catholic.
So rejoice! I am with you and I hope Bergoglio excommunicates me from his false church also.
Bergoglio and his cohorts have the clothes and the buildings, but you have the faith.
God bless and keep you. If you need anything just ask, I will try my best to help.
With admiration and undying respect.
Mel Gibson
In a YouTube video two years ago, Gibson shared his thoughts about the Coalition for Canceled Priests, Pope Francis, Archbishop Viganò, and Bad Bishops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nlu25gfpl0
The Vatican Is More Interested in Silencing Viganò Than Addressing His Allegations
While Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is excommunicated, the same Vatican tolerates and even supports figures like Theodore McCarrick and others who abuse and challenge Church teaching.
By Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
July 8, 2024
We find ourselves at a strange moment in Church history when Archbishop Viganò is excommunicated swiftly while Theodore McCarrick remains unexcommunicated after years of his crimes against the Church have come to light.
We should look closely at a Vatican that operates in this manner. Rather than addressing the serious questions and allegations Archbishop Viganò raises, he is summarily removed from the Church with an apparent motive to silence him. Meanwhile McCarrick and a lengthy list of others have promoted a culture that ignores or wants to change Church teachings and their voices are allowed and even overtly supported.
It seems we are left with only stones to cry out for justice because the voices of faithful disciples are mute, ignored, or even silenced.
From St. Pius V, by Roberto de Mattei, “The new pope appeared to be a man moved only by the desire to restore the ancient splendor of the Holy See by means of improving customs and battling against errors.”
May this quotation remind us that the “splendor of the Holy See” is always about the glory of Jesus Christ. There is no splendor without fidelity to Christ and the only value of worldly splendor is that it points us to God.
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Bishop Eleganti: Covid Shots Have Led to ‘Turbo Cancer,’ Excess Deaths, Other ‘Harmful Side Effects’
‘We have excess mortality since the vaccination programs in all countries,’ Swiss Bishop Marian Eleganti said in an interview with LifeSiteNews, slamming Catholic bishops’ acceptance of COVID mandates as a ‘declaration of bankruptcy of faith.’
By Andreas Wailzer
July 4, 2024
Swiss Bishop Marian Eleganti said the Catholic hierarchy’s embrace of COVID restrictions was a “declaration of bankruptcy of faith” and lamented that the COVID shots have caused “many harmful side effects,” including “turbo cancer,” excess deaths, and premature births.
During a video interview with LifeSiteNews journalist Andreas Wailzer in German, Eleganti was asked what he thought about the Austrian bishops’ support for the country’s general COVID jab mandate.
“For me, that was clearly a fall from grace,” the former bishop of Chur said.
He said that “informed consent” and autonomous decision over one’s own body was the “basic dogma” in medical ethics during the past decades and noted that the Congregation (now Dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Luis Ladaria had declared that there must not be forced COVID injections.
“Nevertheless, the Pope imposed [a shot mandate] on all employees in the Vatican as head of state. Otherwise, they would have lost their jobs or been given another one,” Eleganti stated.
“So, for me, that was clearly an injustice.”
“We now know, and this is coming to light more and more worldwide, that we simply cannot ignore the fact that these measures were not evidence-based, that the vaccinations did not guarantee this protection against transmission, that there was no ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated.’”
“Today we have turbo-cancer phenomena; we have excess mortality since the vaccination programs in all countries. We have a decline in births due to premature births and so on.”
“So much injustice happened, and there were so many harmful side effects,” he continued. “Today we have turbo-cancer phenomena; we have excess mortality since the vaccination programs in all countries. We have a decline in births due to premature births and so on.”
“There are many parameters that point in the same direction, that a lot has been done wrong. The masks were not evidence-based, and so on. That was also known, and these were political decisions.”
The Swiss bishop also criticized the role of the globalist U.N. and WHO in stripping away national sovereignty and acting “like a world government.”
“The WHO is also financed by private foundations such as Bill Gates and others,” Eleganti said. “And these institutions are not democratically legitimized, and they are also at the mercy of the powerful of high finance.”
“And that’s where you have to be critical, and nations must not give up their sovereignty so that so few people in the back room suddenly decide for the whole world like a world government and impose something on all countries that remains highly controversial, also in the future.”
The bishop reiterated that the Church “did not play a good role” during the COVID crisis.
He said that bishops and other Church leaders showed their lack of faith in the supernatural by shutting down public Easter celebrations and the healing springs in Lourdes, removing the holy water from the churches, and treating the Eucharist like “a contaminated thing.”
“For me, that is a declaration of bankruptcy of faith,” Eleganti charged.
“As it is written in Psalm 90, ‘Even though a thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, such evils will not afflict you,’” he stated.
“And so also when the plague rages by day and by night,” he continued.
“It is also quite clear, a sacramental [holy water] that I use to place myself under the protection of God… I can’t maintain an attitude of total unbelief at the same time… [to believe] that it does not help me at all, but on the contrary could even harm me.”
Eleganti stressed that Catholics “cannot rely on secular strategies” that were often nonsensical but must resort to prayer.
He said that even people outside the Catholic Church “somehow felt” that the Church hierarchy’s response to COVID “was a surrender of faith, as if God did not exist.”
Jen
Tue, Jul 2 2024
And this surrender of faith by the hierarchy allowed the Church to be used for advancement of bad agendas.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bishop...bo-cancer/