{"id":2290442,"date":"2024-07-08T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-excommunicates-conservative-pro-trump-archbishop\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T15:24:48","slug":"pope-francis-excommunicates-conservative-pro-trump-archbishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-excommunicates-conservative-pro-trump-archbishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Excommunicates Conservative, Pro-Trump Archbishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-excommunicates-conservative-pro-trump-archbishop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2290442&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Retired Archbishop Carlo \u200bMaria Vigan\u00f2,\u200b a prominent\u2063 critic of Pope Francis,\u200c was\u200c excommunicated last week after a public\u2064 standoff with the pope. Despite this, Vigan\u00f2 considers it a badge of honor and continues \u200dto speak out against Francis. The excommunication came after Vigan\u00f2 \u200bpublicly demanded Francis resign in 2018\u2063 and praised former President Donald Trump in 2020. The decision to excommunicate Vigan\u00f2 was based on his\u200c refusal \u2062to recognize\u200d the authority of the pope, rejecting communion \u2062with the \u2062Church, and disagreeing with\u2063 the Second Vatican Council. Vigan\u00f2 refuses to accept \u2062the judgment of excommunication and maintains his loyalty to the Catholic\u200b Church \u2062and the papacy. This \u2064move highlights the ongoing conflict between conservative \u200dand liberal ideologies \u2064within the Catholic Church.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/jsaunders\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/jsaunders\/%20\"><span>Joe Saunders<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 8, 2024 at 7:34am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>One of the Catholic world\u2019s most prominent critics of Pope Francis has been cut out of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2, an Italian prelate who served as the Vatican\u2019s ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2016, was excommunicated last week after a years-long public standoff with the pope.<\/p>\n<p>But the 83-year-old shows no sign of backing down.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> post published Friday, Vigano not only published the judgment against him in its entirety, he made it clear he considers it a badge of honor.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">Questo \u00e8 il testo del decreto che mi \u00e8 stato inviato via email oggi alle 13:14 ora italiana. Ci\u00f2 che mi \u00e8 imputato come colpa per la mia condanna \u00e8 ora messo agli atti, a conferma della Fede Cattolica che integralmente professo.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p0ITQKHL3C\">https:\/\/t.co\/p0ITQKHL3C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ai miei Confratelli dico:\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F8F0rVKA4X\">pic.twitter.com\/F8F0rVKA4X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arcivescovo Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2 (@CarloMVigano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarloMVigano\/status\/1809257123299107297?\">July 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  \u201cWhat was attributed to me as guilt for my conviction is now put on record, confirming the Catholic Faith that I fully profess,\u201d Vigano wrote on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X, according to an X translation.<\/p>\n<p>He then quoted a passage from the <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/luke\/19-40.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Testament<\/a>: \u201cI say to my brothers: \u2018If you are silent, the stones will cry out.\u2019 (Lk 19, 40).&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God knows, Vigano does not keep silent when it comes to the papacy of Francis.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/vatican-carlo-maria-vigano-pope-francis-excommunicated-schism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a> reported, he publicly demanded Francis resign, accusing the pope of ignoring his warnings about now-former Washington, D.C., Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, one of the most prominent figures caught up in the church\u2019s sex abuse scandal.<\/p>\n<p>He called the pope a \u201cservant of satan,\u201d which is no way to ingratiate yourself with any boss, but it\u2019s a particularly touchy comment when it comes to the head of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>He has not been seen publicly \u2014 \u201cin hiding\u201d as numerous news outlets put it \u2014 ever since.<\/p>\n<p>But in what might be the worst offense in the all-too-woke reign of the first Jesuit pope, Vigano publicly praised then-President Donald Trump during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/lifesite\/Open_Letter_President_Donald_Trump.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to Trump<\/a>, Vigano not only disparaged the rioters but saluted Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, the United States has in you a President who courageously defends the right to life, who is not ashamed to denounce the persecution of Christians throughout the world, who speaks of Jesus Christ and the right of citizens to freedom of worship,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>That, obviously, has made Vigano many enemies among the global left, including the leftists in the Catholic hierarchy.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBS, the Vatican decision for the excommunication came after a Thursday meeting, citing Vigano\u2019s \u201crefusal 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ruling by the doctrinal office was not signed by Francis himself, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/papal-enemy-archbishop-vigano-found-guilty-schism-excommunicated-2024-07-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> reported, noting that it was \u201cnormal\u201d for such a document not to be signed by the pope.<\/p>\n<p>But Reuters also noted that \u201cit is highly unlikely that the punishment was meted out without his approval.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHighly unlikely\u201d is very likely a considerable understatement in this situation. The decision to excommunicate such a public critic of the pope as Vigano, once powerful enough in the church to serve as the papal nuncio to the most powerful nation on earth, couldn\u2019t happen without the pope signing off, considering the publicity it was going to bring.<\/p>\n<p>The official charge against Vigano was \u201cschism,\u201d essentially rejecting the authority of the pope.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Vatican has officially excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Vigan\u00f2 was found guilty of the canonical crime, or delict, of schism, or the refusal to submit to the pope or the communion of the Church, at\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iev4wtXZES\">pic.twitter.com\/iev4wtXZES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnalive\/status\/1809238268338204737?\">July 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/258195\/vatican-excommunicates-vigano-for-schism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic News Agency<\/a> reported, it\u2019s a charge Vigano doesn\u2019t deny when it comes to this particular pope. In fact, he refused to even defend himself.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/exsurgedomine.it\/240628-jaccuse-eng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 28 statement<\/a> on social media, according to the Catholic News Agency, he declared that he would not accept a judgment of excommunication.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote he has \u201cno reason to consider myself separate from communion with the holy Church and with the papacy, which I have always served with filial devotion and fidelity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI maintain that the errors and heresies to which [Francis] adhered before, during, and after his election, along with the intention he held in his apparent acceptance of the papacy, render his elevation to the throne null and void.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those aren\u2019t the words of a man backing down.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/05\/world\/europe\/vatican-excommunication-archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>, the church uses excommunication \u201cas a means to persuade the transgressor to reconcile with the church.\u201d But it\u2019s a good bet that Vigano \u2014 and his supporters \u2014 are beyond persuading that Francis is correct in his reliably leftist positions on issues like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pope-francis-decries-trumps-border-wall-claims-make-us-prisoner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal immigration<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-greta-takes-climate-change-campaign-to-vatican-meets-pope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/notoriously-liberal-pope-francis-just-ok-homosexual-unions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homosexuality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pope has also made his feelings clear about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pope-francis-denigrates-conservatives-calls-suicidal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservatives in general<\/a> and his willingness to deal harshly with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pope-francis-personally-fires-conservative-american-bishop-relentless-outspoken-critic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative clergymen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What isn\u2019t clear is the immediate future of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>A church that went from the moral and political giant of John Paul II (now St. John Paul II) to Benedict XVI to Francis in less than 20 years is obviously in a time of change.<\/p>\n<p>But at 2,000 years old, the Catholic Church doesn\u2019t run on the American quadrennial election cycle. Whether the conservativism represented by Vigano (and Benedict and John Paul II) or the liberalism represented by Francis prevails in the long run is an issue that\u2019s not going to be known until the next papacy \u2014 and the many papacies to come.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said that to the founder of The Western Journal, Floyd Brown.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Gen. Flynn\u2019s warning means that the 2024 election is the most important election for every single living American. 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Will you <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>join us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  in the fight? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Sincerely,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/body><\/html><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2, a prominent critic of Pope Francis, has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Despite this, Vigan\u00f2 sees it as a badge of honor and continues to stand by his beliefs. He has publicly criticized Pope Francis and even praised former President Donald Trump, leading to his excommunication for schism. Vigan\u00f2 refuses to defend himself against the charge and maintains his loyalty to the Church. The future of the Catholic Church is uncertain, with differing ideologies represented by Vigan\u00f2 and Pope Francis. 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