Posted on 07/03/2023 6:30:17 PM PDT by ebb tide
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has founded his own international organization to help “canceled” priests and religious.
On Saturday, it was announced that the former papal nuncio to the United States has become the patron of a civil association named Exsurge Domine (“Arise, Lord”), which will defend not only destitute clergy and religious but the “perennial Tradition of the Church”:
… under my personal patronage, the civil association Exsurge Domine has been founded, which has as its social purpose ‘to provide assistance, support and material help to clergy, religious and consecrated laity who are in conditions of particular economic and logistical difficulties; to defend the unchanged and incorruptible Tradition of the Catholic faith; to preserve and promote the traditional liturgy; to encourage the study and theological and cultural awareness of the immense religious, historical and artistic heritage of Christianity; and to foster opportunities for dialogue and encounter between the various associations, experiences or groups operating within the perennial Tradition of the Catholic Church.
In a statement (published below), the archbishop calls orthodox Catholic priests, nuns, and monks who have been punished by their superiors for their fidelity as “objects of persecution.”
“… [J]ust as the doctors who chose to treat patients during the pandemic lost their licenses and were deprived of their salary, so the priests and religious who do not adapt to the Bergoglian revolution are being removed from churches, expelled from convents, and left without any means of support,” Viganò wrote.
The archbishop finds this particularly shocking, given the promotion in the Church of “heretics, perverts and those who are corrupt.”
“… [I]ndeed they are promoted and encouraged in sin and vice by the very ones whom Christ commanded to protect the flock from rapacious wolves,” he said.
As examples of attacks on the orthodox faithful, Viganò singled out a Benedictine convent in Italy and a Carmelite convent in Texas, both of which will be known to LifeSiteNews readers. He believes that these cases, as well as unnecessary Apostolic Visitations, the removals of blameless Bishops, and the suspensions of faithful priests a divinis or their forced return to the lay state, are “the confirmation of a deliberate will to distort and destroy the last vestiges of Catholicism on the part of the highest levels of the hierarchy.”
Archbishop Viganò first made international headlines in 2018 by accusing Pope Francis of ignoring then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s sexual misconduct and by calling for the Pontiff’s resignation. Since then, he has issued many strong statements criticizing the Pope, elements of the current papacy, the COVID lockdowns – which in many places included the suspension of the sacraments – and the experimental COVID jabs.
Press release of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò on the founding of Exsurge Domine
The Church is going through a very serious crisis, mirroring that of civil governments: those who hold positions of power have shown themselves to be enemies of the institution they oversee and of the people over whom they exercise their authority. This subversive action leads those who are not willing to accept the betrayal to become the object of persecution: just as the doctors who chose to treat patients during the pandemic lost their licenses and were deprived of their salary, so the priests and religious who they do not adapt to the Bergoglian revolution are being removed from churches, expelled from convents, and left without any means of support.
And what is most disconcerting is that the persecutions of those who are good multiply with impunity, while at the same time those who carry them out show themselves to be conciliatory and “inclusive” towards the enemies of the Church: heretics, perverts and those who are corrupt remain in their positions, indeed they are promoted and encouraged in sin and vice by the very ones whom Christ commanded to protect the flock from rapacious wolves. On the other hand, in the marvelous world of Santa Marta, convents and religious houses must be sold in order to transform them into resorts or lucrative immigrant “welcoming centers.” Or, more simply, they are sold in order to compensate for the millions in reparations that the dioceses must pay to the victims of their corrupt clergy and the financial hole resulting from the disaffection of the faithful.
The persecution imposed by the Vatican – where Bergoglio’s protégés dominate with impunity – also manifests itself in disciplinary actions that violate the laws of the Church and the very purpose for which those laws have legitimacy: there are countless cases of placing dioceses and religious communities under pontifical commissaries, of intimidating inspections, specious Apostolic Visits, removals of bishops, while priests are suspended a divinis or reduced to the lay state whose only mistake has been not wanting to apostatize the Catholic faith.
The recent cases of the Benedictine Monastery of Pienza in Italy and the Carmel of Arlington in Texas, which are added to many less well-known cases, are the confirmation of a deliberate will to distort and destroy the last vestiges of Catholicism on the part of the highest levels of the hierarchy. To this end, under my personal patronage, the civil association Exsurge Domine has been founded, which has as its social purpose:
To provide assistance, support, and material help to clergy, religious, and consecrated laity who are in conditions of particular economic and logistical difficulties; to defend the unchanged and incorruptible Tradition of the Catholic Faith; to preserve and promote the traditional liturgy; to encourage the study and theological and cultural awareness of the immense religious, historical, and artistic heritage of Christianity; and to foster opportunities for dialogue and encounter between the various associations, experiences, or groups operating within the perennial Tradition of the Catholic Church.
Exsurge Domine will eventually be able to become a foundation, but it is already operating at an international level, engaging in the assistance of religious who are persecuted because of their fidelity to Tradition. Anyone who shares these aims can contribute as a supporter. A website has been activated – www.exsurgedomine.org – that I invite everyone to visit, where it is possible to follow and support ongoing projects.
In this spirit of true Christian fraternity and renewed unity in the bond of faith, hope, and charity, we can give an edifying example to our persecuted brothers and sisters, a warning to our unfaithful pastors, and hope to our children. Because it will only be holy priests, priests who are faithful to the Gospel, priests who are in love with Christ, who will rebuild tomorrow, but beginning already today, that which we have allowed to be demolished for too long.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò,
Archbishop, Apostolic Nuncio, July 1, 2023
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If you believe that there is a Creator, who is immensely and immeasurably greater than any of us can truly conceive, then you will also believe/know that that Creator could MAKE us do whatever the Creator desired us to do. But that’s not how things are. We are allowed to make our own choices, as independent individuals and unique beings. That should tell you all you need to know about whether God values us and our free will as individuals.
Any political system that sacrifices the sanctity of the individual, like the socialism/Marxism/Communism that our current Pope seems to embrace, is thus incompatible with the self-determinism and individuality given to us by our Creator.
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