by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, LifeSite News:
The following article is from an interview between Italian journalist Aldo Maria Valli and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò for the blog Duc in Altum on February 16, 2025.
Aldo Maria Valli: Your Excellency, the Trump Administration’s decision to put a stop to the immigration policies of the woke Left was part of the electoral platform that brought Donald Trump to victory. Along with closing the borders with Mexico, the president has cut the funds that government agencies were allocating to individuals, organizations, and entities in exchange for their action in support of globalism.
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To the voices of condemnation for these political decisions – decisions that are completely legitimate – is now added that of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who in his Letter to the Bishops of the United States of America has harshly expressed his condemnation of the “mass deportation” decided on by the U.S. government.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: Like everything that comes out of Bergoglio’s mouth, these accusations against the Trump government are false and delusional. There is no “mass deportation” occurring. Rather, there is a precisely focused decision to put an end to the floods of unregulated immigrants that previous administrations had planned, favored, and encouraged.
In fact, deportation occurred in the opposite direction during the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations, excluding a priori targeted international cooperation projects to help populations in need in their respective countries of origin, instead focusing every effort – even when it was against the law – to increase the ethnic substitution plan.
Those who are now tearing their garments do so only because their lucrative business has been put to an end. They have shamefully profited from this forced migration which was made possible by the network of international organizations and organized crime that manage human trafficking.
Bergoglio’s letter is a jumble of falsehoods and deceptions. It betrays the panic of the mercenaries and the anger of their financiers. Bergoglio has gone so far as to invent a new doctrine, imposing as a moral duty “the reception of immigrants,” from whose management he obtains billions in public funding and through which he accredits himself as the main interlocutor of the globalist elite and executor of the woke agenda. He exploits the teaching of Pius XII – decontextualizing and distorting his words – because by quoting a pope not suspected of modernist or conciliar contamination, he hopes to gain the attention and support of those faithful who do not listen to him.
We need to understand Bergoglio’s fraudulent operation: he wants to take the conflict between the immigrationist-woke Deep Church and the Trump administration to the next level, “dogmatizing” the duty to welcome illegal immigrants and thus forcing American Catholics to see Trump as an enemy of the Catholic Church. In short, he is trying, according to his characteristic modus operandi, to turn President Trump into an adversary in order to undermine his support from Catholic voters.
This dishonest operation also serves to put back at the center of the American political and social debate an episcopate that has been widely discredited due to the sexual and financial scandals that have so far seen it totally subservient to the establishment of the Democratic Party. The real clash is between Trump’s political conservatism – MAGA – with which the majority of Americans, including Catholics, identify, and the ultra-progressivism of the Bergoglian Deep Church.
American Catholics, however, have seen through the fraud! While Bergoglio, in obedience to his globalist masters, hurls anathemas against those who “build walls,” President Trump has announced – among other measures that we welcome with deep satisfaction – the return of the United States to the Geneva Consensus Declaration, which defends the right to life for all, reaffirms the importance of the family, and affirms that there is no international “right” to abortion.
Valli: Thanks to Trump, the Ukrainian crisis is also being resolved…
Abp. V: The peace talks that President Trump has undertaken with President Putin to heal the conflict in Ukraine – which began back in 2014 with the regime change that was imposed by the Anglo-American Deep State – will put an end to a massacre that, for the sake of satisfying the thirst for power of the globalist elite, has sent thousands and thousands of innocent people to the slaughter, destroyed an entire country, fueled the market of organ harvesting (as reported by international agencies) and caused a disastrous impoverishment of European nations due to the outrageous sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation.
Valli: On certain issues, Francis Bergoglio does not seem as sensitive as he is on welcoming…
Abp. V: It is shocking how Bergoglio’s appeals on the “infinite dignity of all” stubbornly exclude defenseless children massacred by abortion, victims of organ harvesting and mutilation for so-called gender transitioning, mothers used as merchandise for surrogate motherhood, young people corrupted by woke perversions, and the masses of minors who fuel the prostitution racket or end up in a Beverly Hills villa to satisfy the execrable depravities of the pedophile elite.
