Posted on 06/18/2026 12:37:11 PM PDT by ebb tide
Yesterday I read Archbishop Vigano's letter to the pope. Like he did with the SSPX, Leo dissed the archbishop first agreeing to a private meeting and then changing his mind and refusing. Hmm...first thing I thought of was "Say yes when you mean yes and no when you mean no."
It's interesting to see whom Leo is willing to meet: the faux archbishop of Canterbury, homo-sympatico clergy like James Martin, the schismatic patriarch of the Eastern Church, pro-abort celebrities like Robert De Niro, etc. ad nauseum. The Vatican these days offers numerous photo ops for those who hate the Church and champion sins that cry to heaven for vengeance. The only ones who get the shaft are those who refuse to abandon the faith of our fathers. You know the "faith of our fathers, holy faith"....the one we promise "we will be true to thee til death." Well, some of us will anyway.
Here's Archbishop Vigano's introduction to his letter saying he is not schismatic: In many ways the information revealed by the archbishop illustrates a sad and shameful period in the Church, one where the vindictiveness of popes is shocking. Pope Francis, especially, showed an almost diabolical cruelty toward those he considered enemies: Read the complete letter and consider Pope Leo's latest condemnation of the SSPX. He calls them schismatic, but who really is separating from the Church of the apostles and martyrs?A few weeks ago, I made public the events surrounding my request to meet with Leo – specifically, his initial acceptance, his sudden rescission, and then his definitive cancellation. While a Catholic Archbishop was deemed unworthy of being received in Audience, an abortionist and heterodox figure – in the guise of an Anglican “Archbishop” – merited not only the full honors of Vatican protocol but was even permitted to engage in “communicatio in sacris” with Leo and other Prelates, going so far as to impart a “blessing” within the shrine of the Prince of the Apostles. This serves only as further proof of the double standard applied by the proponents of the “synodal church.” I do not believe it is necessary to dwell on this with further commentary ... After long months of silence, the time has come to make known the contents of my letter to Leo of January 25th of this year, thereby establishing a documentary record of the matter.
In 2016, exactly on my seventy-fifth birthday, Bergoglio ordered me to leave the Nunciature in Washington and forbade me from returning to the Vatican, where John Paul II had permanently assigned me an apartment; he also forbade me from residing in the Roman residence for retired Nuncios that was specially prepared by Pope Benedict. Before his death, Bergoglio also had my Vatican citizenship and passport revoked; he prevented me from accessing the healthcare services provided to members of the Diplomatic Service, even though I had always regularly paid my contributions; and he ordered that my car be removed from the Vatican Vehicle Registry and prevented the renewal of my Vatican driver’s license, which I had held continuously since 1973, causing me serious difficulties and effectively condemning me to house arrest.
In August 2018 I published the explosive memorandum about Theodore McCarrick and the extensive network of corruption and complicity within the Roman Curia, which directly involved Jorge Mario Bergoglio himself. Subsequently, I lived for several years in secret locations, as Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke advised me to do, given the threats I received and the fact that my immediate predecessor in Washington, Nuncio Pietro Sambi, had died under very suspicious circumstances after having had heated confrontations with then-Cardinal McCarrick when informing him of the measures taken by Benedict XVI to counter his crimes as a serial abuser.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider has stated on several occasions that the excommunications planned over the consecration of the bishops on July 1st would be invalid. In his words, “To excommunicate those who profess this faith and repeatedly express that they recognize the Pope and want to serve the Roman Church would be unjust.”
Does injustice from the Vatican surprise us these days?
Please, dear faithful Catholics, pray for the pope, the magisterium, and the poor, abandoned flock in the pews. God has allowed all this for His purpose, perhaps the cleansing of a Church submerged in filth. Injustice and suffering embraced in humility can be the cleaning agent that brings about change. Let us pray unceasingly for that.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
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Interesting or revealing, appears to be a TDS Leftist activist.
Very sad. Not surprising. My heart goes out to Archbishop Vigano. And I pray he feels his validation straight from God.
I still prefer Pope Leo’s time thusfar than Pope Francis’ at the same juncture.
"Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us."
Amen.
All fine and dandy except the article fails to mention that the excommunicated Vig is, in fact, excommunicated. Is the excommunicated Vig informing the Vatican/Pope that he intends to amend his past excommunicated offenses? If not, there is no necessity for a meeting.
If ebby insists on making a comparison of the excommunicate Vig to the dreadful sspx, they(sspx) already indicated they will not amend and, likewise, a meeting is not necessary. The only thing coming for the narcissist, repugnant, disobedient sspx will be excommunications on or around July 2, 2026.
At least fired strickland didn’t get excommunicated! ImagineThat!
St Athanasius and St Joan of Arc were also “excommunicated”.
What about them, foister?
Being “excommunicated”, or fired, by the Jorge the Heretic is an honor.
Once again, see my tagline.
Amend to what, foister? Amend to VC II's heresy that Catholics and muslims worship the same "god"?
Unlike you, I do not worship Mohammed's "god". And unlike you I don't worship Jimmy Martin, S.J.'s idea of a queer-loving "god".
So take your "god" and your "synodal church" and march on into Hell.
Repugnant SSPX?. Goodness gracious!. All we want is to be Catholics. The Pope has become a woke leader, confusing and losing souls. Isn’t that the truly repugnant side of the story?. You also fail to mention that bishop consecrations in China are happening without Pope consent, and yet the Pope is not excommunicating them.
“Robert De Niro is not a practicing Catholic, though he was baptized into the Catholic Church as a child by his grandparents. While his grandparents had him secretly baptized, he was primarily raised by an atheist mother, and his father was a lapsed Catholic. As an adult, De Niro does not practice the religion.” Why would the Pope meet with him?
Why do you even ask?
You have admitted that you, also, are not a practicing Catholic?
I would be more interested in a critique from anyone other than Vigano. He strikes me as a narcissistic nutcase.
Just wait.
I’ve never met with the Pope either, any of them.
Franky financed the Elton John gayopic with Peter’s Pence.
Someday there will be a Pope who is Catholic.
So is that the only reason you are no longer a practicing Catholic?
Interesting ebby. So you admit you are an sspxer. Thank you. This is just about the first time you have ever revealed anything about yourself: “All we want is to be Catholics.” It is a good start. I feel for the TRUE and faithful sspxers; unfortunately you aren’t one. A true sspxer loves and respects the Catholic Church and the Church’s Pope, its hierarchy and teachings. Please join.
Spreading malicious, anti-Vatican, anti-Pope (Pope Francis tried to help sspx. Pope Leo might yet, too - and soon), anti-Catholic slop is the work of fabulists and if you get your news from that kind of website, your cartoon network, that traffics in scandal - it is unmoored-from-reality, well, you can do better, ebby.
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