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The initiation by the Vatican of canonical proceedings against gadfly Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano
marks a significant new development in the deepening crisis within the Roman Catholic church.Archbishop Vigano
was recently summoned to answer accusations of committing three canonical offences: fomenting schism, questioning the legitimacy of the current Pope, and rejecting the second Vatican council of the Roman Catholic church which was held sixty years ago and whose controversial reforms have been agitating traditionalist Catholics ever since.
It is a delicious irony which will not be lost upon the students of Vatican affairs that the church organ now prosecuting Vigano, the innocuous sounding
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, historically is the direct successor to the Holy Office, the very agency that used to direct the Inquisition.
The Archbishop has
declined to present himself before his accusers at the initial hearing held on 20 June. He has also refused to dignify the proceedings with, as he put it, "a predetermined outcome," by sending an advocate to plead his cause.
Since retiring as apostolic nuncio in the United States in 2016, Vigano has become a powerful voice denouncing
moral lapses in the ranks of the Roman Catholic clergy. With increasing stridency,
he has been taking the Vatican to task for failure to adequately address its in-house scandals. Over time, the scope of Vigano's public denunciations has continued to expand. Besides calling attention to the sordid moral atmosphere pervading the Roman Catholic church, Vigano has also been a persistent personal critic of current Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio, specifically his failure to discipline the wrongdoers. Vigano's contrarian
stance concerning the Covid emergency enlisted him even more enemies.
Whilst Bergoglio publicly urged strict adherence to the Covid regime as practically a religious duty, Vigano used his bully pulpit to massively disseminate evidence to the contrary, echoing assertions by Prof. M. Chossudovsky that
the "official 'corona narrative' is predicated on a 'Big Lie' endorsed by corrupt politicians".
Comment: Dagestan is located in Southern Russia:
- Terrorists attack a synagogue and two Orthodox churches in southern Russia's Dagestan (23 Jun 2024)
- Russia conducts 'counter-terrorism operation' in Dagestan, detains three (1 April 2024)
- Putin names culprits behind anti-Jewish riot in Dagestan (30 Oct 2023)
- Protesters storm Russia's Dagestan airport in search of Israelis, 'external enemies' blamed for stoking mob (29 Oct 2023)
- Best of the Web: 'I was recruited by UK intelligence to spy on ISIS and got thrown under the bus' - claims ex-militant awaiting trial in Dagestan (30 Aug 2021)
- Putin rattled by memories, recalling terrorist invasion of Dagestan and bravery of militia defenders (20 Jun 2019)
- Caspian Sea: Iran to create ferry link with Dagestan, Russia (18 Aug 2019)
Dagestan borders Azerbaijan to the South, but is not far from Georgia: