Wheat and Tares: Silenced for Speaking Truth?
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò Excommunicated by Vatican
NOTE: Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has been vocal and prolific in warning that the Deep State and Deep Church are United in Profiling and Persecuting Traditional Catholics. He said:
This operation of the criminalization of dissent on the part of temporal and spiritual power is not accidental and ought to arouse a very firm condemnation and decisive opposition, both from citizens and their representatives in civil institutions, and also from the faithful and above all from their pastors; a condemnation…which must also be extended to the disturbing conspiracy of deviated parts of the State collaborating with deviated parts of the Church: on the one hand the deep state and on the other the deep church, both of which are corrupt and subservient to the globalist elite, with subversive purposes whose ideological bases are united by hatred of Christ, the Church, and the Holy Mass.
Earlier this month, he was excommunicated by the Vatican. However, for many Catholic traditionalists, including Mel Gibson, support for Viganò has galvanized:
"Of course it is an honour to be called a schismatic and excommunicated by Jorge Bergoglio [Pope Francis], considering that he is a total apostate and excludes you from the wrong institution…For me and many others, you are a very brave hero."
Against this backdrop, we have this week’s column from Greg Maresca.
By Greg Maresca
During your life, you have resided under the Muhammad Ali of American presidents, and as luck would have it, you are now living under the second-greatest president ever. If that isn’t enough, over in Rome, on the chair of Peter, sits the greatest pope in Church history.
Every day is like having the largest Powerball winning lottery ticket sitting on your dresser, waiting to be cashed.
And then you wake up.
As the American nation endures a cold civil war, its roots can be traced directly to the Church. Pope St. Pius V, who served from January 1566 to his death in May 1572, had it right, saying, “All the evil in the world is due to lukewarm Catholics. The Church’s Great Commission has been proselytized by the relativistic and secular gospel of a fallen world that is in direct contradiction with God’s grace.”
Recently, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal nuncio to the United States, who has been living in hiding, was excommunicated by the Vatican for being a soldier of Christ. The traditionalist archbishop said the pope was not legitimate and criticized the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which, according to Cannon Law, placed the archbishop in schism.
Viganò did not endear himself to the Vatican when he repeatedly warned them about the homosexual predation of then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who molested and raped. McCarrick was eventually laicized but never excommunicated.
Nothing Viganò professes is contrary to the deposit of faith. Yet he is thrown under the popemobile and excommunicated for criticizing ongoing heresy and corruption.
So much for the Synodal Way.
Viganò is in exceptional historical company, including St. Athanasius, who, in the 4th century, dissented against Arianism, which was accepted and endorsed by most bishops. For his valor, Athanasius was excommunicated. Joan of Arc was also excommunicated and martyred but eventually canonized like Athanasius.
The true schismatic is not Archbishop Viganò.
Pope Francis has sanctioned and censured critics, two of whom are
Americans. Bishop Joseph Strickland of Texas was stripped of his diocese, while Cardinal Raymond Burke lost his pension and Rome apartment.
The Church needs no more excommunication of faithful priests or repression of the centuries-old Latin Mass. Plummeting demographics, record-low Mass attendance, church closures, empty seminaries, and scant religious vocations go unaddressed. The destructive effects of forgoing tradition combined with the errors of Modernism after Vatican II are undeniable, yet they continue to the detriment of all.
In 2016, four cardinals, including Burke, wrote a letter called a dubia asking the pope to clarify ambiguities in his apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, regarding the illicit reception of the Holy Eucharist. The Pope never answered and remains terribly weak in defending the deposit of faith.
Then in 2023, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the controversial Fiducia Supplicans, which was interpreted as tacit approval for the blessing of gay unions.
Pope Francis’s confusion only results in glass houses and double standards where heresies, blasphemies, and doctrinal errors are just another day’s business in Rome.
Viganò is vilified, whereas heretics that infest the universal Church, like Rev. James Martin and those schismatic German bishops who continue to surf the LGTBQ wave, are immune, thumbing their noses at the faithful.
Since Vatican II and the lowering of the moral standard, the Church has made peace with the world, resulting in a huge percentage who have vacated the faith.
While pseudo-Catholics like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and those who claim to be faithful are the poster politicians for abortion, transgenderism, euthanasia, the LGBTQ agenda parade on serving the prince of this world. No ex-communication for you as the rest of Christendom, for expediency’s sake, looks the other way while their bishops are locked on mute
These contemporary Judases are not interested in bringing souls to Christ. Rather these brazen wolves, who don’t bother with sheep’s clothing, work in unison with the Marxist-Globalist Axis and their New World Order.
Cardinals and bishops need to be reminded time and again just why they wear crimson.
If St. Paul was still around, we would be getting more than just a letter.
May God have mercy on us and the whole world.
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