Archbishop Viganò’s
Stunning Indictment of Vatican II and
the Papacy of Francis
A Voice Crying Out in the
Wilderness
After
60 years of Wandering in the Desert of Heterodoxy, Heresy, and Apostasy
— from your parish
priest to the pseudo-papacy itself culminating in Jorge Bergoglio, we have
finally heard one stentorian voice Crying Out in the Wilderness
with a courage and resolution absent in the Episcopacy since 1962 when
a council was convened (“Vatican II”) to address problems that did not exist
— apart from the One, True, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of 2000
years — which was an impediment to Modernism, described by Saint Pope Pius
X as “The Synthesis of all Heresies”. The remedy to the non-existent
illness was a carefully distilled poison in the form of heterodoxy,
heresy, and apostasy which effectively cured the ailing patient by killing him
and placing his corpse as a simulacrum of the Catholic Church until
gradually, but ineluctably, the putrefaction became both inescapable, undeniable,
and a poison itself to the living who increasingly distanced themselves
from the rotting corpse. The flow of cadaverine was apparently clear but
nauseating, and ultimately deadly. The time had come to admit that it was
a dead thing and to finally bury the corpse — and replace it with a plastic
mannequin.
Editor
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THE MOST
CRUCIAL EXCERPTS:
from
the Letter of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
9 June 2020 Saint Ephrem
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Objections
against the presumed legitimacy of the exercise of religious freedom
that the Second Vatican Council theorized, contradicting the testimony
of Sacred Scripture and the voice of Tradition, as well as the Catholic
Magisterium which is the faithful guardian of both.
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Attempts
to correct the conciliar excesses – invoking the “hermeneutic of
continuity” [parentheses added – ed.] – have proven unsuccessful
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The Abu Dhabi Declaration
– … its first symptoms in the pantheon of Assisi – “was conceived
in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council” as Bergoglio proudly confirms.
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This
“spirit of the Council” is the license of legitimacy that the
innovators use to oppose their critics
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Never
in the history of the Church has a Council presented itself as such
a historic event that it was different from any other council:
there was never talk of a “spirit
of the Council of Nicea”
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Councils were all,
indiscriminately, the expression in unison of the voice of Holy Mother
Church, and for this very reason the voice of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Those who maintain the
novelty of Vatican II also adhere to the heretical doctrine that
places the God of the Old Testament in opposition to the God of the
New Testament, as if there could be contradiction between the Divine
Persons of the Most Holy Trinity.
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Doctrinal
errors almost always betray some sort of Trinitarian heresy, and thus
it is by returning to the proclamation
of Trinitarian dogma that the doctrines that oppose it can be defeated.
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Bishop Athanasius
comments: “One may rightly hope and believe that a future Pope or Ecumenical
Council will correct the erroneous statement made” by Vatican II. This
appears to me to be an argument that, although made with the best of
intentions, undermines the Catholic
edifice from its
due to a changed sensitivity, are susceptible to abrogation, modification,
or different interpretation with the passage of time, we inevitably
fall under the condemnation of the Decree Lamentabili.
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Doctrinal errors on the
part of the faithful, something which instead has occurred only with
the most recent Council. And when in the course of history various heresies
spread, the Church always intervened promptly to condemn them, as happened
at the time of the Synod of Pistoia in 1786, which was in some
way anticipatory of Vatican II, especially
where it abolished Communion
outside of Mass, introduced the vernacular tongue,
and
➢ abolished the prayers of the
Canon said submissa voce; but even more so when it
theorized
about the basis of episcopal collegiality, reducing the
primacy of the pope to a mere ministerial function. Re-reading the acts
of that Synod leaves us amazed at the literal formulation of the same
errors that we find later, in increased form, in the Council presided
over by John XXIII and Paul VI. On the other hand, just
as the Truth
comes from God, so error is fed by and feeds on the Adversary, who hates
the Church of Christ and her heart: the Holy Mass and the Most Holy
Eucharist.
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There comes a moment in
our life when, through the disposition of Providence, we are faced
with a decisive choice for the future of the Church and for our eternal
salvation. I speak of the choice between understanding the error
into which practically all of us have fallen, almost always without
evil intentions, and wanting to continue to look the other way or justify
ourselves.
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Together
with numerous Council Fathers, we thought of ecumenism as a process,
an invitation that calls dissidents to the one Church of Christ, idolaters
and pagans to the one True God, and the Jewish people to the promised
Messiah. But from the moment it was theorized in the conciliar commissions,
ecumenism was configured in
a way that was in direct opposition to the doctrine previously expressed
by the Magisterium.
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We have thought
that certain excesses were only an exaggeration of those who allowed
themselves to be swept up in enthusiasm for novelty; we sincerely believed
that seeing John Paul II surrounded
by charmers-healers, Buddhist monks, imams, rabbis, protestant pastors
and other heretics gave proof of the Church’s ability to summon people
together in order to ask God for peace, while the authoritative example
of this action initiated a deviant succession of pantheons that were
more or less official, even to the point of seeing Bishops carrying
the unclean idol of the pachamama on their shoulders, sacrilegiously
concealed under the pretext of being a representation of sacred motherhood.
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Numerous
practicing Catholics, and perhaps also a majority of Catholic clergy,
are today convinced that the
Catholic Faith is no longer necessary for eternal salvation; they believe
that the One and Triune God revealed to our fathers is the same as the
god of Mohammed.
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We know well that, invoking
the saying in Scripture
Littera enim occidit, spiritus autem vivificat [“The letter brings death, but the
spirit gives life”
(2 Corinthians 3:6), the
progressives and modernists astutely knew how to hide equivocal expressions
in the Conciliar texts, which at the time appeared harmless to most
but that today are revealed in their subversive value.
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It is the
method employed in the use of the phrase subsistit in: saying
a half-truth not so much as not to offend the interlocutor (assuming
that is licit to silence the truth of God out of respect for His creature),
but with the intention of being able to use the half-error that
would be instantly dispelled if the entire truth were proclaimed. Thus
“Ecclesia Christi subsistit in Ecclesia Catholica” does not specify
the identity of the two, but
the subsistence of one in the other and, for consistency, also in other
churches: here is the opening to interconfessional celebrations, ecumenical
prayers, and the inevitable end of any need for the Church in the order
of salvation, in her unicity, and in her missionary nature.
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Today we hear the surahs
of the Koran recited from the pulpits of our churches,
we see an idol of wood adored by religious sisters and brothers, we
hear Bishops disavow what up until yesterday seemed to us to be the
most plausible excuses of so many extremisms. What the world wants, at the instigation
of Masonry and its infernal tentacles, is to create a universal religion
that is humanitarian and ecumenical, from which the jealous God
Whom we adore is banished.
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The hopes of the Tower
of Babel cannot be brought back to life by a globalist plan that
has as its goal the cancellation of the Catholic Church, in order to
replace it with a confederation of idolaters and heretics united by
environmentalism and universal brotherhood. There can be no brotherhood
except in Christ, and only in Christ:
qui non est
mecum, contra me est. [“Who is not with Me is against Me”,
Saint Luke 11.23 – ed.]
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Few
realize the responsibility of the highest levels of the Church in
supporting these anti-Christian ideologies, as if the Church’s leaders
want to guarantee that they have a place and a role on the bandwagon
of aligned thought.
If the pachamama
could be adored in a church, we owe it to Dignitatis Humanae.
If we have a liturgy that is
Protestantized and at times even paganized, we owe it to the revolutionary action of
Msgr. Annibale Bugnini and to the
post-conciliar reforms.
If the Abu Dhabi Declaration
was signed, we owe it to Nostra Aetate. If we
have come to the point of delegating decisions to the Bishops’ Conferences
– even in grave violation of the Concordat, as happened in Italy
– we owe it to collegiality, and to its updated version, synodality.
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Thanks to
synodality, we found ourselves with
Amoris Laetitia
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The Council was used
to legitimize the most aberrant doctrinal deviations,
the most daring liturgical innovations, and the most unscrupulous abuses,
all while Authority remained silent.
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This Council
was so exalted that it was presented as the only legitimate reference
for Catholics, clergy, and bishops, obscuring and connoting with a sense of
contempt the doctrine that the Church had always authoritatively taught,
and prohibiting the perennial liturgy that for millennia had nourished
the faith of an uninterrupted line of faithful, martyrs, and saints.
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Among other
things, this Council has proven to be the only one that has caused so
many interpretative problems and so many contradictions with respect
to the preceding Magisterium, while there
is not one other council – from the Council of Jerusalem to Vatican
I – that does not harmonize perfectly with the entire Magisterium or
that needs so much interpretation.
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Many people,
including myself, did not initially consider the possibility that there
could be a conflict between obedience to an order of the Hierarchy and
fidelity to the Church herself. What made tangible this unnatural, indeed
I would even say perverse, separation
between the Hierarchy and the Church, between obedience and fidelity,
was certainly this most recent Pontificate.
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In the “Room of Tears”
… the “newly elected” Pope, Bergoglio exclaimed: “Sono finite
le carnevalate! [The carnivals are over!],” scornfully refusing
the insignia that all the Popes up until then had humbly accepted as
the distinguishing garb of the Vicar of Christ. … the conspirators,
were finally free of the inconvenient presence of Benedict XVI and brazenly
proud of having finally succeeded in promoting a Cardinal who embodied
their ideals, their way of revolutionizing the Church, of making
doctrine malleable, morals adaptable, liturgy adulterable, and discipline
disposable. And all this was considered, by the protagonists of
the conspiracy themselves, the logical consequence and obvious application
of Vatican II.
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It
is no accident that Bergoglio’s supporters are the same people who saw
the Council as the
first event of a new church, prior to which there was an old
religion with an old liturgy.
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It
is undeniable that from Vatican II onwards a parallel church was built,
superimposed over and diametrically opposed to the true Church of Christ.
This parallel church progressively obscured
the divine institution founded by Our Lord in order to replace it with
a spurious entity, corresponding to the desired universal religion that
was first theorized by Masonry. Expressions like new humanism,
universal fraternity, dignity of man, are the watchwords of philanthropic humanitarianism which
denies the true God, of horizontal solidarity of vague spiritualist
inspiration
and
of ecumenical irenism that the Church unequivocally condemns and of
ecumenical irenism that the Church unequivocally condemns.
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What
we have for years heard enunciated, vaguely and without clear connotations,
from the highest Throne, we then find elaborated in a true and proper
manifesto in the supporters of the present Pontificate:
the democratization of the Church, no longer through the collegiality invented by Vatican II
but by the synodal path inaugurated by the Synod on the Family; the demolition of the ministerial
priesthood through its weakening with exceptions to ecclesiastical
celibacy and the introduction of feminine
figures with quasi-sacerdotal duties; the silent passage from ecumenism
directed towards separated brethren to a form of pan-ecumenism that
reduces the Truth of the One Triune God to the level of idolatries and
the most infernal superstitions; the acceptance of an interreligious
dialogue that presupposes religious relativism and excludes missionary
proclamation;
the
demythologization of the Papacy, pursued by Bergoglio as a theme of
his pontificate;
the progressive legitimization
of all that is politically correct: gender
theory, sodomy, homosexual marriage, Malthusian doctrines, ecologism,
immigrationism... If we do not recognize that the roots of these
deviations are found in the principles laid down by the Council, it
will be impossible to find a cure.
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For decades we have
been led into error, in good faith, by people who, established in authority,
have not known how to watch over and guard the flock of Christ: some
for the sake of living quietly, some because of having too many commitments,
some out of convenience, and finally some in bad faith or even malicious
intent. These
last ones who have betrayed the Church must be identified, taken aside,
invited to amend and, if they do not repent they must be expelled from
the sacred enclosure. This is how a true Shepherd acts, who has the
well-being of the sheep at heart and who gives his life for them; we
have had and still have far too many mercenaries, for whom the consent
of the enemies of Christ is more important than fidelity to his Spouse.
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Just as I
honestly and serenely obeyed questionable orders sixty years ago, believing
that they represented the loving voice of the Church, so today with
equal serenity and honesty I
recognize that I have been deceived. Being coherent today by persevering
in error would represent a wretched choice and would make me an accomplice
in this fraud.
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In
these last few years even the most ingenuous among us have understood:
silence for fear of causing
a schism,
the effort to repair papal documents
in a Catholic sense in order to remedy their intended ambiguity,
the appeals and dubia made
to Francis that remained eloquently unanswered, are all a confirmation
of the situation of
the most serious apostasy to
which the highest levels of the Hierarchy are exposed, while the Christian
people and the clergy feel hopelessly abandoned and that they are regarded
by the bishops almost with annoyance.
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Whoever has the grace
of being a Child of God in virtue of Holy Baptism should be horrified
at the idea of being able to construct a blasphemous modern version
of the Tower of Babel, seeking to bring together the one true Church
of Christ, heir to the promises made to the Chosen People, with those
who deny the Messiah and with those who consider the very idea of a
Triune God to be blasphemous [Muslims – ed.]. • We know well
that the purpose of these ecumenical and interreligious initiatives
is not to convert those who are far from the one Church to Christ, but
to divert and corrupt those who still hold the Catholic Faith, leading
them to believe that it is desirable to have a great universal religion.
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Last Sunday,
the Church celebrated the Most Holy Trinity, and in the Breviary it
offers us the recitation of the
Symbolum Athanasianum
already reduced
to only two occasions in the liturgical reform of 1962.
The first words of that now-disappeared
Symbolum remain inscribed in letters of gold: “Quicumque vult
salvus esse, ante omnia opus est ut teneat Catholicam fidem; quam nisi
quisque integram inviolatamque servaverit, absque dubio in aeternum
peribit” – “Whosoever wishes to be saved, before all things it is
necessary that he hold the Catholic faith; For unless a person shall
have kept this faith whole and inviolate, without doubt he shall eternally
perish.”
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Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
9 June
2020 Saint Ephrem
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Translated by Giuseppe Pellegrino
Published in Remnant Articles
Geoffrey K. Mondello
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