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An Excommunicated Papal
Nuncio &
VP Religious Allegiance 08/07/2024 |
Vice presidents are in the news currently while we are comparing Joe Biden’s Catholicism and that of VP hopeful JD Vance. Biden’s faith is born of Vatican II; Vance’s is born of the blowback to Vatican II that grew wings under the papacies of JP II and Benedict XVI.* |
Together, the two popes went out of their way to elevate Opus Dei, the order founded by a Spanish fascist priest who supported dictator Franco, among other things. Resistance to Vatican II is alive and well in powerful players such as Leonard Leo, who almost singlehandedly brought about the current MAGA Supreme Court.** And Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, architect of the notorious Project 2025, |
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the blueprint for the fascist takeover of America if Trump wins the 2024 election.*** The fascist wing of the RC church makes war with Pope Francis by ignoring Laudato Si and promoting denial about climate change–“drill, baby drill!” being their slogan. Also, by holding up the shadow side of capitalism as practiced unfettered on Wall Street and among international conglomerates that prefer their profits to the lot of the poor. A “preferential option for the poor” is not in their world view any more than protecting Mother Earth is. Cutting billionaires’ taxes is their
priority. They are well represented in the American bishops’ conference which chose to make abortion (i.e., controlling women’s bodies) the #1 issue this presidential election year, rather than whether democracy can and should survive. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vignano, who was appointed papal nuncio to the US by Pope Benedict in 2011 and served to 2018, has also questioned the teachings of the Second Vatican Council (Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, was also opposed to Vatican II). Vignano also questioned the legitimacy of Pope Francis. |
Catholic news network EWTN covers the
excommunication of former Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. | But in an amazing and historically unprecedented
event, Vignano was recently excommunicated by Pope Francis. What does it mean that a Vatican ambassador to the United States for seven years |
would subsequently be excommunicated by a Pope? What about all the American bishops he got appointed? And those candidates he vetoed from appointments? What damage did he do as ambassador that will take generations to undo? How did he impact the American bishops' conference
itself—which elected an Opus Dei archbishop as its head and still has a majority of bishops in America of that persuasion–though Pope Francis is trying to alter that. To be continued |
*Paul Elie, “J. D. Vance’s Radical Religion,” The New Yorker, 7/24/2024.
**See Jay
Michaelson, “The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump’s Supreme Court Pick,” The Daily Beast, 7/24/2018.
***Rachel Leingang and Stephanie Kirchgaessner, “Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei,” The Guardian, 7/26/2924,
See Matthew Fox, The Pope’s War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved.
Banner Image: Now-excommunicated former Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, presided over solemn Vespers at St. Joseph
Province, 2015. Photo by St. Joseph Province on Flickr. |
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