Posted on 07/05/2024 4:55:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Roman Catholic archbishop who questioned the legitimacy of Pope Francis and portions of the Second Vatican Council was excommunicated from the Catholic Church on Thursday for the canonical crime of schism.
Carlo Maria Viganò, 83, who served as the Vatican's ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2016, was informed Friday by the Vatican's doctrinal office that it had found him guilty, according to a press release from the Holy See.
"His public statements manifesting his 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 are well known," the Vatican said.
"At the conclusion of the penal process, the Most Reverend Carlo Maria Viganò was found guilty of the reserved delict of schism," the Vatican added.
According to canon law, schism is defined as a "refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him."
The decision from the Vatican comes two weeks after the Catholic Church's disciplinary body issued a decree summoning Viganò to an extrajudicial trial in Rome for "the crime of schism."
The archbishop did not appear at his own trial, according to The Washington Post. He had earlier tweeted that he assumed his sentence "has already been prepared, given that it is an extrajudicial process." In a lengthy statement on June 20, the prelate said he considered the charges against him "an honor."
Now that he is excommunicated, he is formally considered to be outside of the Catholic Church and is barred from partaking in Catholic sacraments, including Communion, and is forbidden from ordaining priests or officiating Mass.
Viganò had drawn attention in recent years by calling for the resignation of Pope Francis, whom he refers to using his given name Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
In 2020, Viganò accused a cabal of leaders within the Catholic Church of permitting "heresy, sodomy and corruption" to run amok in the institution. In a letter to then-President Donald Trump, he claimed there was a "deep church" that was enabling evil. He described a group as "mercenary infidels who seek to scatter the flock and hand the sheep over to be devoured by ravenous wolves."
Viganò also penned a letter in 2018 that alleged dozens of former and current high-level Catholic officials covered up accusations of sexual abuse against disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, according to the National Catholic Register.
Viganò took special aim at the pope, accusing him of ignoring his predecessor's sanctions against McCarrick and urging him to resign to "set a good example for cardinals and bishops who covered up McCarrick’s abuses."
Weeks before his schism charge, Viganò alleged on May 29 that Francis had committed the "same abuses" as McCarrick while serving as a bishop in Argentina, though he offered no evidence.
"Bergoglio does not want to oust homosexual seminarians and priests: he rather wants to complete the work of infiltration and corruption of the Clergy through homosexuality and pedophilia, so that by declassifying the serious sinfulness of sodomy and corruption of minors the door opens on the civil front to decriminalization of these crimes," Viganò said at the time.
Viganò was relatively muted in his response to his excommunication on social media, though he retweeted figures such as Gen. Michael Flynn, who accused the pope of hurling the Catholic Church into a state of schism.
"The church under this dark Pope is in a state of Schism," Flynn tweeted. "Church leaders and the laity world wide, especially in America, need to wake up. When someone of [Viganò's] stature is excommunicated, we Catholics are in serious trouble. Like many other globalist institutions, the Church of Rome under Bergoglio is out of touch with the sentiment of their ekklesia."
"I say to my brothers: 'If you are silent, the stones will cry out,'" Viganò also tweeted, citing Luke 19:40.
Vigano is a pure deacon of Christ. He does not recognize the current radical socialist Pope.Neither do I.
Ditto.
Shameful action by the Pope. Abusing his office for pettiness and spite. So what are the options for Vigano at this point in his life?
Excommunicated from the Catholic Church for being Catholic.
So the schismatic Pope is now purging the orthodox.
Anti pope. The excommunication is not valid because the POS sitting in the seat is not valid.
Isn’t excommunication supposed to mean that one is going to Hell, wherein they shall be tortured forever?
RE: Isn’t excommunication supposed to mean that one is going to Hell, wherein they shall be tortured forever?
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Not really. Excommunication in the Catholic Church is a form of ecclesiastical discipline, where a person is excluded from participating in the sacraments and other Church functions, due to a serious violation of Church teachings or a grave offense.
It serves as a means to maintain the integrity and unity of the Church and to encourage the individual to repent and rectify their actions.
And excommunication is not necessarily a permanent state.
If the person who has been excommunicated genuinely repents, confesses their sins, and seeks reconciliation with the Church, they can be restored to full communion. The process of restoration typically involves confession, penance, and a formal decree of reconciliation by the Church authorities.
Excommunicated, in this case means that Vigano refused to be sodomized by the filthy degenerate heretic Bergoglio.
Vigano STANDS for the true teaching of Christ, while Bergoglio and his Vatican priest KNEEL down to Satan.
The wicked pretender pope will not last long, and Lucifer will be accepting him in Hades, while Vigano will be accepted into heaven as a defender of Christ and true saint.
I'm so tired of the Pope attacking the orthodox Catholics, who have suffered so much putting up with his and the Church hierarchy's abuses. When the Pote dies, I sure hope the Cardinals reinstate Vigano.
At Least the RCC doesn’t born heretics at the stake any more. So he has that going for him.
Who is more like Christ Bergoglio or Reverend Virgano?
Do what football fans did to the NFL - stop watching football.
In this case, stop going to church. When the collection baskets come up empty and the confessional priests report that parishioners no longer sin - venal, mortal or otherwise - the church might take notice.
The question, “is the pope Catholic”, has taken on new meaning.
OMG! I’m not Catholic, but I thoroughly approve of Archbishop Vigano (I’m not sure if that is his rank).
The Vatican outta check out this site!
End times. Archbishop Vigano and screeches for a new Holocaust: scary times.
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