Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 83, has been judged by the Vatican guilty of the ecclesiastical crime of schism, incurring the penalty of latae sententiae excommunication from the Catholic Church. Here below is the full text of the brief communiqué published on Friday, July 5, by the Vatican Press Office (link). Note: The decision was taken [...]
Controversial archbishop summoned to Palace of the Holy Office on June 20 to answer charges (he did not go) By ITV staff The former apostolic nuncio to the U.S., Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó, 83, has been formally accused by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith [...]
"I regard the accusations against me as an honor." —Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 83, in a statement issued today, June 20, 2024, regarding notification he has received, via email, that he is accused of schism by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the highest doctrinal office of the Church "The Dicastery for the [...]
Letter #158, 2021, Monday, November 29: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò's Meditation for Advent 2021 This reflection on Advent was written by the Archbishop at the request of Brian McCall at Catholic Family News. He is receiving many such requests, and many of his writings are responses to requests from around the world. I note that [...]
Monday, January 4, 2021 "For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places." —St. Paul, Letter to the Ephesians 6:12 "The Truth can be denied by the majority for a certain amount of [...]
Sunday, January 3, 2021 Dear friends, My heartfelt best wishes to you for a blessed, happy New Year. The central point of my own reflection in recent weeks — the days of Advent and of Christmas itself and of the final days of the 2020 "virus year," and the first hours of the year 2021 [...]
A Meditation on the World's Coming "Great Reset" "An alleged pandemic... has been used to create a tremendous global social and economic crisis and so to legitimize the drastic reduction of the basic rights of the population. It is what its authors themselves call the Great Reset, the global reset of the economy, of society [...]
"Whilst in Rome before the 2005 papal conclave, the cardinals who were members of the Saint Gallen Group sent their host Ivo Fürer a card saying: 'We are here together in the spirit of Saint Gallen,' and before the conclave they came together for a talk over dinner. According to an anonymous cardinal's excerpts from whose diary were published [...]
November 11, 2020 — Armistice Day and Feast Day of St. Martin of Tours (Armistice Day commemorates the end of the terrible "First World War" in 1918 — a bitter struggle which gave a spiritual and psychological shock to all of Western civilization, which found itself after 1918 unable to fully process the intense evil [...]
The McCarrick Report Is Published: Four "Scapegoats"? Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. And harder to script. What we confront today is a long-awaited “McCarrick Report” which was expected to bring clarity and so healing to the scandal of the former American cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, who betrayed the trust the Church placed in him by [...]
