Rome’s Doctrine Watchdog Charges Pope Francis’ Chief Critic, Archbishop Viganò, with Schism, by Jules Gomes

By Jules Gomes, The Stream, June 24, 2024

Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.

Former Inquisition condemns Vatican whistleblower for rejecting Vatican II and denying Francis’s papal legitimacy.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal ambassador to the U.S., is facing excommunication and defrocking after the Vatican’s doctrinal watchdog authority (led by the controversial Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández) charged the high-profile whistleblower with the canonical crime of schism.

Vigano was summoned to Rome Thursday to face an “extrajudicial penal trial” to answer charges at the Palace of the Dicastery of the Faith. …

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