by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, LifeSite News:
The Catholic Church has nothing to do with the Bergoglian church, which is ‘conciliar,’ ‘synodal,’ and ‘ecumenical,’ but certainly not Catholic.
ON THE CRISIS IN THE CHURCH
Interview with Andrea Caldart for Quotidianoweb
Andrea Caldart: Bergoglio’s Church seems to be in turmoil: many faithful continue to watch this Pope excommunicating priests and others because they produce evidence that Pope Benedict XVI has never actually renounced the Petrine “munus.” Archbishop Viganò, in which Church are we living?
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Carlo Maria Viganò: Bergoglio’s “church” is not only in turmoil: it is in full delirium. If this can happen, it is precisely because it is no longer the Catholic Church, but her scandalous counterfeit; and because in the place of the Pope on the Throne of Peter sits a heretical and usurper tyrant. The alleged distinction between munus and ministerium is an artifice produced by the Hegelian thought of Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI. I explained this at length in my essay on the subject, speaking of a “disassembled papacy.” I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate here a concept that I consider fundamental: any attack on the divine institution of the Papacy (and, along with it, on the Church) has as its ultimate goal the transformation of the sacred power of the Roman Pontiff, who is Vicar and Lieutenant of the One Authority, that of Christ the Pontiff, into a power of human origin, on the model of modern liberal democracies of parliamentary structure. This is what the heretical doctrine on synodality aims at: it undermines the divine constitution and the monarchical nature of the Church, willed by Her Divine Founder, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is King not only of temporal societies, but also – and above all – of religious society, that is, of the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of which He is the Head.
If Bergoglio were truly the Pope, it would mean that the Lord’s promise of special assistance to the Prince of the Apostles and his Successors would actually be unfounded and false. But this possibility is completely inconceivable, as well as contrary to the Catholic Faith. If, therefore, Bergoglio is able to exercise his own demolishing action against the Church and spread his errors, this is due to the fact that his apparent authority has been usurped with premeditation and malice, and as such it is null and void. Those who think that the crisis began with this “pontificate” are mistaken: the desire to tamper with the Roman Papacy dates back to the Second Vatican Council, was continued with John Paul II’s encyclical Ut unum sint, was confirmed by the anomaly of Benedict XVI’s Resignation and was then embraced by Bergoglio – in full coherence with his predecessors – with the Study Document The Bishop of Rome issued by the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity. Redefining the Papacy “in an ecumenical and synodal mold” is the typical modus operandi of heretics to conceal behind vague formulas a deliberately subversive action, contrary to the Faith and the constant practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
We must take note of the coup d’état that was hatched by the deep church and that brought to power, up to the very top of the Catholic hierarchy, the fifth columns of the enemy, that is, of the Masonic anti-church, of the Synagogue of Satan.
Andrea Caldart: Over the years, you have raised several criticisms on the issue of transparency and the management of internal problems in the Church. What steps do you consider essential to restore the trust of the faithful?
Carlo Maria Viganò: What you call “transparency” in bureaucratic language finds its religious counterpart in knowing that we are always under God’s gaze. Nothing escapes Our Lord: neither what we do, nor what we are about to do, nor the intentions that move us. If those who lend their support to Bergoglio and ratify his fraud acted with this awareness, they would not even have admitted him to the Conclave. For the coup d’état to be successful, it was necessary to be able to count on a corrupt and blackmailable Hierarchy: the corruption of the will in the violation of moral principles is accompanied by the corruption of the intellect in the progressive adulteration of the Catholic Faith and, even earlier, in the demolition of Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy, which – because it is the only philosophical framework solidly anchored to reality and thus compatible with Divine Revelation – had to be necessarily eliminated.
The Revolution, in its ontologically anti-Christian and antichristic matrix, denied the divine origin of earthly authority, freeing rulers from their obligation to exercise power within the confines of the Good as an expression of the Supreme Lordship of Christ. This has made authority – both civil and ecclesiastical – self-referential and essentially tyrannical, perverting Christian obedience into servile complicity. Citizens and faithful have found themselves obeying temporal and spiritual power even when it has betrayed its own purpose; and disobeying the true and only holder of Authority, Our Lord, who has been confined by liberal and conciliar secularism to the private sphere of individual belief. Without breaking the bond between Christ the King and High Priest and His representatives on earth, nothing we have seen happen would have been possible.
To those who maintain that the subversive action of the modernist Hierarchy nevertheless enjoys the support and “peaceful” universal acceptance of the Christian people, it must be remembered that sixty years of modernist indoctrination on the part of the conciliar clergy – and fifty years of heretical and sacrilegious anarchy in the liturgical field – have slowly normalized the philosophical, doctrinal, and moral errors that Holy Church had always condemned and fought. The few who want to remain faithful to Tradition must understand that we are in times of persecution and apostasy, and they must organize themselves to resist wolves in sheep’s clothing and false shepherds. In a splendid parable, the Lord speaks to us of false shepherds and hirelings, who care nothing about the sheep, and reminds us that the sheep recognize the voice of the Shepherd (Jn 10): this is the sensus Ecclesiæ that allows the Church to survive even in the temporary absence and betrayal of the Hierarchy.
