LifeSiteNews: Viganò Accuses Italian Cardinal Bertone of Connection to Freemasonry, Says He ‘Subjugated’ Benedict XVI

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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

By LifeSiteNews staff, Aug 21, 2024

In a new interview given to Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accuses Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of being connected to Freemasonry and having ‘subjugated’ Benedict XVI. 

(LifeSiteNews) — In a new interview given to journalist Franca Giansoldati of the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accused Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of being connected to Freemasonry and having “subjugated” Benedict XVI. 

In the interview published by Il Messaggero on Wednesday morning, Viganò was asked, “A step back in time: in 2011, Pope Ratzinger implored you to accept being appointed as Nuncio to the United States, leaving the role of the Governorate where you were cleaning it up internallyYou had clashes with Cardinal Bertone, then Secretary of State, whose name is linked to the scandal of the misappropriation of funds from the Bambino Gesù (Hospital) even though he was never investigated. What did Benedict XVI say to you? How did things go that day, and what were the main reasons for the disagreement with Bertone?” …