© CopyrightScreenshot of Archbishop Viganò's YouTube channel. Ultra-conservative Carlo Maria Viganò says he is accused of splitting the church and denying pontiff's legitimacy.
A former Catholic church diplomat and virulent critic of Pope Francis has said the Vatican is putting him on trial for denying the pontiff's legitimacy.
Carlo Maria Viganò, 83, an ultra-conservative who was the Vatican's ambassador to the US from 2011 to 2016, said the powerful department of doctrine
had summoned him on Thursday to hear the charges.In posts in several languages on X, Viganò said the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith had set out accusations "of having committed
the crime of schism" - that is, splitting the Catholic church.
He was
also charged with "having denied the legitimacy of 'Pope Francis', of having broken communion 'with Him', and of having rejected the Second Vatican Council" in the 1960s, which set the church on a modernising path, Viganò wrote.
The retired Italian archbishop said he was facing an "extrajudicial penal trial", an accelerated process.
"I regard the accusations against me as an honour," he said before launching into a lengthy criticism of the pope.
He railed against Francis's welcome for undocumented migrants, his "delirious encyclicals" about climate change and authorisation of blessings for same-sex couples, and accused him of promoting his allies.
"I repudiate, reject and condemn the scandals, errors and heresies of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who manifests an absolutely tyrannical management of power," he wrote, using the Argentinian pope's given name.The Vatican did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In 2018, Viganò, backed by an ultra-conservative US church faction, called for Francis to resign. He accused him notably of having ignored sexual assault allegations against a then top US cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked by Francis the following year.
Viganò, a former governor of the Vatican city state, complained in leaked letters to the pope that he was being hounded out for stamping out fraud.
Comment: More research would be needed, but it seems that Viganò may be one of the more honourable members of the clergy; as summarized in the X-post below, that includes a video from his own social media account, and which is then laid out in more detail in the Wikipedia snippet that follows:
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has been summoned to the Vatican to be excommunicated by Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope.
As seen in this video, he courageously spoke out against child trafficking and named individuals such as Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, and former editor of The Recount, Slade Sohmer, who was arrested for child p*rnography.
He went on to speak about how Jeffrey Epstein ran a blackmail operation on his island, collecting evidence of well-known people committing heinous ritual crimes against children while working for the Israeli Mossad.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò also spoke out against the following:
- Stolen elections
- COVID mandates
- Corruption of the church
- Israel killing civilians in Palestine
- Against the World Economic Forum
He is now being charged with denying the legitimacy of "Pope Francis" and breaking communion "with Him" and of having rejected the Second Vatican Council.
On
Wikipedia we read:
Carlo Maria Viganò (Italian pronunciation: [vigaˈnɔ]; born 16 January 1941) is an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Apostolic Nuncio to the United States 2011 to 2016. He previously served as secretary-general of the Governorate of Vatican City State from 2009 to 2011. He is known for having publicized the Vatican leaks scandal of 2012, in which he revealed financial corruption in the Vatican, and a 2018 letter accusing Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders of covering up sexual abuse allegations against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, although Viganò himself has been accused of covering for McCarrick and shifting the blame to Pope Francis.[1]
Viganò was ordained a priest in 1968 and spent most of his career working in a diplomatic capacity for the Holy See. As a priest, he served on a number of diplomatic missions before being consecrated a bishop by Pope John Paul II in 1992. Viganò was appointed secretary general of the Vatican City Governatorate in 2009, where he reformed the finances of Vatican City and turned a budget deficit into a surplus. He complained directly to Pope Benedict XVI about financial corruption. The unauthorized publication of two of his letters led to the Vatican leaks scandal, exposing financial mismanagement and wrongdoing in the Vatican. On August 25, 2018, Viganò published an 11-page letter accusing Pope Francis and numerous other senior church leaders of concealing allegations of sexual misconduct against McCarrick. Viganò called on Francis to resign.
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In 2009, Viganò was appointed secretary general of the Vatican City governatorate. In that role he established centralized accounting procedures and accountability for cost overruns that reportedly helped turn a US$10.5 million deficit for the city-state into a surplus of $44 million in one year.[9]
In 2010, Viganò suggested that the Vatican should drop out of the Euro currency agreement in order to avoid new European banking regulations. Instead, the Vatican chose to adhere to the Euro agreement and accept the new scrutiny that tougher banking regulations required.[10]
In late January 2012 a television program aired in Italy under the name of Gli intoccabili (The Untouchables),[11] purporting to disclose confidential letters and memos of the Vatican.[12] Among the documents were letters written to the pope and to the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, by Viganò, complaining of corruption in Vatican finances and a campaign of defamation against him. Viganò, formerly the second ranked Vatican administrator to the Pope, requested not to be transferred for having exposed alleged corruption that cost the Holy See millions in higher contract prices.[13]
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In May 2020, National Catholic Reporter reported that a number of German bishops had rejected COVID-19 conspiracy theories spread by Viganò,[118][119] saying that "populists and other conspiracy theorists [...] want to interpret all efforts to contain the pandemic as a pretext to found a hate-filled technocratic tyranny and wipe out Christian civilization."[118] Viganò had circulated an appeal he wrote and posted on the website Veritas Liberabit Vos in which he criticized "disproportionate and unjustifiable restrictions" on the "exercise of freedom of worship, expression and movement" enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it was "social engineering" and "subtle forms of dictatorship" that violated "inalienable rights of citizens and their fundamental freedoms" and were a "disturbing prelude to the realization of a world government beyond all control".[120] He cast doubt on the "contagiousness, danger and resistance of the virus".[120] He said that "foreign powers" and "shady interests" were interfering in domestic affairs and were part of a "plot to create a world government" that "would result in the permanent imposition of unacceptable forms of restriction on freedoms".[121]
In his June 7, 2020 letter to then-President Donald Trump, which was published on LifeSiteNews,[122] Viganò made "apocalyptic claims about a looming spiritual battle and a globalist conspiracy pursuing a one-world government", according to the Catholic News Agency.[123] Viganò said that some Catholic bishops were aligned with the New World Order conspiracy,[124][125] and that they invoked the Masonic "universal brotherhood" — also part of the new world order plot. He described the protests and the COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns as a Biblical struggle between light and dark, urging President Trump to fight against the deep state in the United States, which included responding to the protests.[124] Viganò alleged that the protests were organized by now President Joe Biden who embodies the deep state goals.[125] President Trump responded favorably to the letter in a Tweet and encouraged everyone to read Viganò's letter.[126]
Journalists, from Radio Canada, The New York Times and historian and theologian Massimo Faggioli, traced the link between President Trump and Viganò, to the archbishop's appointment in 2011 as Nuncio to the United States.[17][127][128] In 2008, when President Obama was elected, American Catholics had increased their influence through their alliance with the Tea Party, according to Faggioli.[128] Faggioli said that in Washington over the next five years, Viganò "forged close ties" with the "militant fringe" of traditionalist Catholics and gradually embraced conspiracy theories.[127] When Pope Francis became Pope, some Catholics in the United States believed it was part of a globalist elite plot to liberalize the Catholic Church. Faggioli said that Trump had popularized and normalized the conspiracy theories, so that when Viganò published of a series of letters with strong conspiratorial overtones from May to October 2020, Trump's "most ardent Catholic supporters" had adhered to Viganò's messages.[127]
In a July 2020 interview, Viganò accused Pope Francis of following the 'homosexual agenda of the New World Order'.[129]
On October 30, 2020, Viganò wrote another letter to President Trump which framed the World Economic Forum's Great Reset initiative within the context of the New World Order global conspiracy theory "against God and humanity".[130] He said the Great Reset was led by the "global élite" who wanted to "subdue" humanity using "coercive measures" to "limit individual freedoms".[130][131] Viganò said the price of a promised basic universal income from the International Monetary Fund would be the "renunciation of private property". He warned that a digital ID, a health passport, and Bill Gates' vaccination would become mandatory, and refusal to comply would result in internment. Viganò said that the lockdowns in the early months of 2021 were part of the activation of the Great Reset. Viganò said in the October 30 letter that then President Trump represented the "final garrison against the world dictatorship" and that the United States represented a "defending wall" in a "war" against globalists, such as the President of the United States Joe Biden, Pope Francis (whom Viganò addresses as simply Jorge Mario Bergoglio), Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, France's President Emmanuel Macron, and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.[130] Sections of this letter were included in an article by The Spectator columnist, James Delingpole — a key proponent of the great reset conspiracy theory — a version of the anti-lockdown conspiracy.[132] One Church official said that he was "simply stunned at what is being disseminated in the name of the Church and Christendom: crude conspiracy theories without facts or evidence combined with a right-wing populist combative rhetoric that sounds frightening."[118] Viganò did not offer proof to support his claims, according to the CNA.[123]
And there's more which can be found on the Wikipedia page. On balance, it seems there was a sexual abuse allegation, as well as a weak fraud allegation, against Viganò, but even establishment controlled Wikipedia doesn't appear to have much evidence backing those up.
Comment: More research would be needed, but it seems that Viganò may be one of the more honourable members of the clergy; as summarized in the X-post below, that includes a video from his own social media account, and which is then laid out in more detail in the Wikipedia snippet that follows: On Wikipedia we read: And there's more which can be found on the Wikipedia page. On balance, it seems there was a sexual abuse allegation, as well as a weak fraud allegation, against Viganò, but even establishment controlled Wikipedia doesn't appear to have much evidence backing those up.