Viganò: Amid Vatican Scandals, Pope Francis Has Dealt the ‘Most Devastating Blows’ to Papacy, Church

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

October 2, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Viganò today published a statement in Italy about the current crisis at the Vatican with regard to Cardinal Angelo Becciu and his sudden dismissal. In it, he argues that it is not an accident that such scandals take place under this current pontificate, but, rather, that this is part of the system. The Pope surrounds himself, according to the Italian archbishop, “with compromised characters,” and the subsequent scandals aim at the “destruction of the Catholic institution,” the Church.

In Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s new intervention (see full text below), as published today by the Italian newspaper La Verità, the prelate draws a parallel between the French Revolution and today’s situation in the Church. He writes that “I believe, instead, that behind this dripping of scandals involving prominent personalities of the Hierarchy and Roman Curia there is the deliberate will to demolish the Church herself, to discredit her before the world, to compromise her authority and credibility before the faithful.” Thus, Viganò sees an “instrumental method” on the part of the current Pope whose actions increase the loss of reputation of the Catholic Church.  …

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