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To: nanetteclaret; Bigg Red

The Vatican has excommunicated its former ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, after finding him guilty of schism, an inevitable end for the firebrand conservative who became one of Pope Francis’ most ardent critics.

The Vatican’s doctrine office imposed the penalty after a meeting of its members on Thursday and informed Vigano of its decision Friday, a press statement said.

It cited Vigano’s “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.”

The Vatican excommunication means that Vigano is formally outside the church, and cannot celebrate or receive its sacraments, for having committed one of the gravest crimes in canon law: schism. A schism occurs when someone withdraws submission to the pope or from the communion of Catholics who are subject to him.

https://apnews.com/article/vatican-vigano-schism-excommunicate-170df099cd1fe2cf556485c8a3acd072


787 posted on 07/05/2024 7:05:45 AM PDT by Melian (✳✴️ Reminder: Memes are made to make you think or laugh. Verify for yourself before reposting. ✳️✴️)
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To: All

Top Democrats are so alarmed about Joe Biden’s ailing health some fear a shadowy cabal is keeping him in power so they can pull levers behind the scenes, it is claimed.

The astonishing theory was detailed in the liberal New York magazine. Its reporter Olivia Nuzzi revealed that even Democrat elites are stumped as to how and why the fast-declining 81 year-old is being allowed to continue his re-election bid.

Nuzzi said she had heard questions being posed by high-ranking Democrats on the east and west coasts about whether Biden is a puppet whose strings are being pulled by another group of secretive Democrats.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13602603/Terrified-democrats-Biden-dystopian-cabal-health-Presidency.html

Drip, drip, drip...


789 posted on 07/05/2024 7:16:00 AM PDT by Melian (✳✴️ Reminder: Memes are made to make you think or laugh. Verify for yourself before reposting. ✳️✴️)
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Vigano should immediately get married to a buxom blonde in a protestant church.
😂😂😂

-h/t Cheech and Chong


790 posted on 07/05/2024 7:19:51 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: Melian

If he doesn’t submit to Bergolio, he is a real Catholic.


797 posted on 07/05/2024 8:17:03 AM PDT by yawningotter
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To: Melian

But if the imPopestor is not a valid pope can he really excommunicate the good Archbishop?


814 posted on 07/05/2024 11:24:48 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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