{"id":2359758,"date":"2024-10-25T17:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-vatican-ambassador-to-us-implores-catholics-to-vote-for-trump-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T17:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:19:41","slug":"former-vatican-ambassador-to-us-implores-catholics-to-vote-for-trump-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-vatican-ambassador-to-us-implores-catholics-to-vote-for-trump-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Vatican ambassador to US implores Catholics to vote for Trump &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fformer-vatican-ambassador-to-us-implores-catholics-to-vote-for-trump-washington-examiner%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=2359758&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>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minority-employees-slam-house-dem-plan-to-boost-diversity-at-state-department\/\" title=\"Minority Employees Slam House Dem Plan To Boost Diversity at State Department\">recent letter<\/a>, \u200cArchbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former Vatican ambassador to the U.S., urged \u2064American \u200cCatholics to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 election and against Vice President Kamala Harris,\u2063 whom he described\u2063 as &#8220;an infernal \u2063monster who obeys Satan.&#8221; Vigano, known\u200b for his ultraconservative views\u2062 and criticism of Pope Francis, emphasized the election as a critical choice between\u2062 opposing forms of government\u2014democracy and dictatorship. He condemned abstaining from voting as morally unacceptable and \u200bportrayed a vote for Harris as a grave sin. The letter \u2063included \u2062numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-suspends-demonetizes-one-america-news-network\/\" title=\"YouTube Suspends, Demonetizes One America News Network\">conspiracy theories<\/a> and\u2062 depicted the current state of America \u200bas one filled\u200c with crime and societal\u2064 decay, attributing these issues to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/review-in-the-heights-celebrates-the-promise-of-america\/\" title=\"REVIEW: \u2018In the Heights\u2019 Celebrates The Promise Of America\">corrupt government<\/a>. Vigano,\u2063 who has previously engaged with Trump through public letters, frames the election as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nfl-star-slams-jussie-smollett-don-lemon-america-is-better-than-this\/\" title=\"Former NFL Star Slams Jussie Smollett, Don Lemon: \u2018America Is Better Than This\u2019\">spiritual battle<\/a>,\u2062 urging action from the Catholic community to oppose what he sees as a moral decline.  <\/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\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Former Vatican ambassador to US implores Catholics to vote for Trump over &lsquo;infernal monster&rsquo; Harris<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1621658\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vatican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Vatican's\">Vatican&rsquo;s<\/a> former ambassador to the United States penned a <a href=\"https:\/\/exsurgedomine.it\/241022-open-letter-eng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Vatican's\">letter<\/a> to American Catholics, deriding Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> as &ldquo;an infernal monster who obeys Satan.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano served as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2024\/08\/01\/vigano-deep-dive-inside-vatican-248485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"number two official\">No. 2 official<\/a> in the Vatican from 2009 to 2011 and ambassador to the U.S. from 2011 to 2016. He gained fame as an ultraconservative, becoming so critical of the more liberal Pope Francis that it resulted in his excommunication earlier this year. A supporter of former President Donald Trump, he is now urging American Catholics not to vote for Harris, warning of apocalyptic results if she is elected.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., listens to remarks at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops&rsquo; annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Nov. 16, 2015. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vigano wrote that the 2024 election is a choice &ldquo;between a conservative President, who is paying with his very life for his fight against the deep state, and an infernal monster who obeys Satan.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He added that Catholics can&rsquo;t abstain from voting and that a vote for Harris would be contrary to their faith.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For a Catholic, there can be no question:&nbsp;voting for Kamala Harris is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin.&nbsp;Nor is it morally possible to abstain, because&nbsp;in this <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">war declaring oneself neutral means allying oneself<\/a> with the enemy,&rdquo; Vigano wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In this election you must choose between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation: you are called to choose between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and slavery,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter contains a laundry list of conspiracy theories, including claims that the government controls the weather and purposefully unleashed hurricanes on the Southeast.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look at your country! Your cities have become dumps filled with derelicts and criminals, drug dealers and addicts, prostitutes and robbers,&rdquo; Vigano wrote. &ldquo;Your schools are dens of indoctrination and corruption from kindergarten onwards. In your courts, criminals are acquitted and innocents are imprisoned: new ideological crimes are prosecuted, while illegality is tolerated and encouraged. In your hospitals, multinational corporations rule, and you are their guinea pigs to be exterminated or made chronically ill so that you will be their perpetual clients.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Vigano wrote a series of public letters to Trump in 2020, one of which the former president described as &ldquo;incredible.&rdquo; In a June 7, 2020, letter, Vigano suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic and riots over George Floyd&rsquo;s death were the workings of nefarious elements as part of a wider spiritual battle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So honored by Archbishop Vigan&ograve;&rsquo;s incredible letter to me. I hope everyone, religious or not, reads it! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fVhkCz89g5\">https:\/\/t.co\/fVhkCz89g5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1270842639903006720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vigano has experienced a fall from grace within the Vatican since the height of his power in 2009-2011. He was a central figure in the so-called Vatileaks scandal when his letters expressing concerns about possible corruption to Pope Benedict XVI were leaked to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Vigano&rsquo;s position has further deteriorated over the past four years due to his promotion of a variety of conspiracy theories, criticism of positions taken by the Vatican on social matters, and support of Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine. His excommunication was announced on July 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1621658\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1621658\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vatican ambassador urges Catholics to choose Trump over Harris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2359759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Vigano.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13174,3728,5894,3634,9367],"class_list":["post-2359758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-catholics","tag-election","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-vatican"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Vigano.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}