Posted on 09/21/2018 5:09:28 PM PDT by marshmallow
ARGENTINA, September 20, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – An Argentinian archbishop who is a close friend of Pope Francis has suggested that former U.S. nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò suffers from megalomania, a delusional mental illness “marked by feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur.”
Víctor Manuel “Tucho” Fernández, Archbishop of La Plata, Argentina said in an interview that Viganò has placed his conservative ideological interests above the good of the people who, as a result, end up confused and hopeless.
The Fernández interview is filled with hyperbolic statements ranging from accusing Viganò of seeking to groundlessly discredit Pope Francis through his testimony to proposing that Viganò is one of a group of ideologues who “bear false witness and lie” in order to defend traditional doctrine.
There are “ideological obsessions more powerful than sanity,” said Fernández.
The Argentinian’s comments come amid a series of four homilies preached by Pope Francis in which he seems to have suggested that Viganò and other faithful Catholics are doing the work of the devil, the “Great Accuser,” in order to anger and “scandalize the people.”
Fernández’s comments are also in line with those of other left-wing prelates who remain in a panic over Viganò’s testimony. For example, Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich said that those who disagree with Pope Francis “don’t like him because he’s a Latino.”
Their panic comes as no surprise: Viganò’s testimony represents an existential threat to the liberal forces that currently wield power at the Vatican and throughout the Church.
In an 11-page written statement published in August, Archbishop Viganò, 77, claimed that Pope Francis knew about strict canonical sanctions imposed on now-disgraced homosexual abuser former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick by Pope Benedict XVI but chose to repeal them. Viganò also called for Pope Francis to resign.
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So sayeth the Kissing Artist.
He might want to check Pope Francis to see if he suffers from this “megalomania”.
The fudge packers just keep outing themselves.
Suddenly I start to see the necessity of listening to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. When these goofballs start to come forward to support somebody who is displaying some goofy ideas, it’s time to start looking at what the opposition is saying. That time is now.
Yeah, AbV suffers from a severe case of truth-telling.
And the wonderful, kind priests in the church are tarnished by the scandals, too, but they valiantly soldier on.
So like France the Church is following the Soviet method of dealing with dissent. Stop the world I want to get off.
The priest of my congregation is having some reconstructive surgery done to ameliorate damage caused during removal of a tumor. He was telling the congregation after his homily that was the reason he would be away from the church for a week.
He made the side comment that he had gone to confession and received the blessing of the sick, but he said after he had heard more about the abuse crisis, he got so mad that he needed to go back to confession again before his surgery.
It’s bad enough when you realize that your entire senate and house of representatives is compromised. Then you realize the church is corrupt.
“In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act.”
George Orwell
Diagnosis for the wrong person. Check with your boss.
Good comment!
Here’s an idea. Send these hierarchs, including the Pope, a WWJD bracelet. You know, as a kind of reminder.
they would not know what the acronym stood for, therefore your idea would fail.
As sad as that is to say . . .
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