Earlier today the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) announced that former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has been latae sententiae (automatically) excommunicated.
The DDF is headed by notorious pro-LGBT Argentinian Cardinal Victor “Tucho” Fernandez. Among other things, Fernandez is the mastermind behind Fiducia Supplicans, a Vatican document that endorses blessings for homosexual “couples".
He has also attacked the Church’s long-held teaching that same-sex attraction is “intrinsically disordered.” In 1995, Fernandez published an erotic book on kissing titled Heal me with your mouth.
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The Dicastery’s announcement comes while disgraced Slovenian priest Marko Rupnik remains in good standing with the Vatican.
Rupnik was expelled from the Jesuits in 2023 and has been widely-accused of sexually and spiritually abusing numerous persons, including nuns as well as men.
He was automatically excommunicated by the Vatican in 2020 after the DDF unanimously ruled he was guilty of absolving one of his sexual accomplices.
He subsequently had the penalty swiftly revoked – with much speculation over whether Pope Francis personally intervened to swiftly lift the excommunication.
Other prominent Catholics who are still in “good standing” with the Vatican include pro-abortion U.S. President Joe Biden, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and pro-LGBT Jesuit Fr. James Martin.
Prominent German Cardinal Reinhard Marx also remains in the Church. He celebrated a Mass for the “Munich Queer Community” in 2022 and has expressed support for ordaining homosexual men to the priesthood.
Also noteworthy is Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg and a close confidant of Francis. Hollerich has previously called for a “change” in Church teaching on homosexuality while expressing support for ordaining women and allowing married men to be priests.
Archbishop Viganò previously expressed his view that to be “excommunicated” from the “conciliar church” would be a great “honor,” referencing the fact that French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), the founder of the Society of St. Pius X, met the same fate in 1988.
He also issued on June 28 a blistering response to the DDF’s charge of schism, arguing that “[a] schismatic sect accuses me of schism: this should be enough to demonstrate the subversion taking place.”
Bishop Athanasius Schneider said last week that were Pope Francis to excommunicate Archbishop Viganò he would only “increase divisions” in the Church.
“I think the pope would be wise and prudent if he were to not excommunicate Archbishop Viganò,” Schneider remarked.
“I think that today the church has so much internal division that it would be imprudent, even if there is some canonical ground to judge Archbishop Viganò,” he advised.
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