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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò faces off with the Pope: Summoned to Rome under the threat of excommunication
American Thinker ^ | 06/21/2024 | Victoria White Berger

Posted on 06/21/2024 7:23:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

As some Catholics know, Archbishop Viganò is a hero in the eyes of many who do not enjoy the spectacle of Pope Francis’ continual and seemingly ongoing reversal of Catholic teaching and law. The hyperpolitical, leftist Pope has been, by his own words, engaged in irreversibly (he hopes) and increasingly modifying (according to his own predilections) the Catholic Church since he took papal office. Sound like anybody you know?

Viganò has been consistently faithful to Canon Law and to the established teachings of the Church, his warnings falling against a wall of thunderous silence from most of the Western bishops (some in America have supported him) and various dogbodies who tend to the administrative bidding of the Vatican rather than to follow the clear teachings of Jesus and his apostolic instructions.

Viganò’s positions are therefore judged by Pope Francis and his like as those of a conservative and faithful priest -- not a globalist or environmentalist or an advocate of a post-national, socialist world.

Today, Viganò has been summoned to Rome with the threat of excommunication:

“Rome -- June 20, 2024

The disgraced former papal nuncio to the United States, Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, announced that he has been charged with schism by the Vatican's doctrinal office, after a six-year rogue period in which he called for Pope Francis to resign and labeled him a "false prophet."

On June 20, the archbishop posted on his own website a two-page decree from the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ordering him to appear for a trial regarding "public statements that show a denial of points necessary for the preservation of communion with the Catholic Church."

The decree is dated June 11 and is signed by Msgr. John Kennedy, secretary of the doctrinal office's disciplinary section,

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: bergoglio; excommunication; morepopenews; popefrancis; vigano

1 posted on 06/21/2024 7:23:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

SOURCE: https://www.catholic.org/news/hf/faith/story.php?id=86981

From Archbishop Viganò in his Easter 2024 message:

[EXCERPT]

“Christians are progressively banished from civil society and considered a threat to the subversive project of the New World Order, while a minority of the vicious and perverted claim to erect their deviations as the universal norm. Here is the “visibility” of Biden and the woke ideology, celebrating a macabre mad dance to the abyss.”


2 posted on 06/21/2024 7:24:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I read elsewhere that he was being summoned to Rome TO be excommunicated.


3 posted on 06/21/2024 7:29:45 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: Puppage

Does one need to be PERSONALY present in Rome to be excommunicated?


4 posted on 06/21/2024 7:32:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Puppage

Sentence first-verdict afterwards.


5 posted on 06/21/2024 7:34:04 AM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I didn’t think so, but then again I am Lutheran.


6 posted on 06/21/2024 7:39:14 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Viganò is the sword of Christ.

Jorge Bergoglio is the toilet seat of Satan.


7 posted on 06/21/2024 7:41:45 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Frank is the usurper prophesied about by the saints.


8 posted on 06/21/2024 7:45:45 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
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RE: I didn’t think so, but then again I am Lutheran.

Well, as a Lutheran, you might remember that on January 3, 1521, Pope Leo X issued a papal bull, “Decet Romanum Pontificem,” officially excommunicating Martin Luther from the Catholic Church. This document originated from Rome. Luther was NOT in Rome when the bull was issued.


9 posted on 06/21/2024 7:45:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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No, one does not need to go to Rome to be excommunicated. They’re just doing it in as dramatic and public a way as possible to humiliate him and to warn others not to step out of line

Papal infallibility never claimed that the pope would be a good guy. And in any case, there is plenty of evidence that Bergoglio is not a legitimate pope, i.e., that he is an antipope. I personally have not yet come down definitely one way or the other on that question.

But faithful Catholics are going to have to get used to the idea that the heretics are in possession of the buildings, the institutions, and in the eyes of civil law and society, even the very name of Roman Catholic. It is not the first time in history this has happened (think the Arian Crisis), so it is also not the time for the faint of heart.


10 posted on 06/21/2024 7:57:16 AM PDT by scouter (As for me and my household... We will serve the LORD.)
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11 posted on 06/21/2024 7:59:38 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: SeekAndFind

So let me get this straight, Archbishop Viganò to be excommunicated BUT Joey BiDung and Nazi Pelosi (devout Democrat Abortion loving Catholics) GET A PASS?

I must have been sleeping all those days in Catholic School when they taught that heretics GET A PASS.

Yes the POPE SUCKS on Satin’s red hot member!!!!


12 posted on 06/21/2024 8:11:23 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: SeekAndFind

Vigano has repeatedly and courageous called out the corruption in the Church. So naturally, the Church will punish him.

If there is no justice in heaven, every saint is a sucker.


13 posted on 06/21/2024 8:19:10 AM PDT by karnage
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Prayers up, for this good man. 🙏🏻


14 posted on 06/21/2024 8:32:32 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This pope is an abomination. He’s all smiles for Joe Biden, the fake Catholic who champions unrestricted abortion and anti-Christian LGBTQ+ ideology every chance he gets but comes down hard on Vigano for defending traditional Catholic teaching and criticizing the pope’s erratic and contradictory public comments on these issues. This pope has a very thin skin.


15 posted on 06/21/2024 8:44:35 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: SeekAndFind

The article in the National Catholic Reporter refers to Vigano as “disgraced” and calls him a purveyor of “conspiracy theories.” It sounds like it was written by someone at MSNBC.


16 posted on 06/21/2024 9:22:23 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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The article in the National Catholic Reporter refers to Vigano as “disgraced” and calls him a purveyor of “conspiracy theories.” It sounds like it was written by someone at MSNBC.

That's why this liberal rag masquerading as a Catholic publication is often called "The National Catholic Distorter."

17 posted on 06/21/2024 1:19:37 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: SeekAndFind

He should bring a recording device for the meeting.


18 posted on 06/21/2024 5:45:16 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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