Carlo M. Vigano is a public obstinate severe schismatic and heretic, who rejects Vatican II, the Church since Vatican II, and who utterly rejects and severely condemns Pope Francis. Vigano refuses to refer to Pope Francis as “Pope” or “Francis” or “Roman Pontiff” or similar terms. He refers to him only as “Bergoglio”. Archbishop Vigano has made many public statements, over the course of several years, obstinately persevering in the utter rejection of Vatican II, Pope Francis, and the body of Bishops in communion with the Pope.

Carlo M. Vigano’s repeated expressions of schism and heresy:

Vigano: “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.” [1]

Vigano: “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.” [1]

Vigano also accuses the Church 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.” [1]

Vigano: “It appears that Bergoglio is impudently trying to “raise the stakes” in a crescendo of heretical affirmations, in such a way that it will force the healthy part of the Church — which includes bishops, clergy and faithful — to accuse him of heresy, in order to declare that healthy part of the Church schismatic and ‘the enemy of the pope.’ ” [2]

Vigano: “Jorge Mario Bergoglio is trying to force some cardinals and bishops to separate themselves from communion with him, obtaining as a result not his own deposition for heresy but rather the expulsion of Catholics who want to remain faithful to the perennial Magisterium of the Church. This trap would have the purpose — in the presumed intentions of Bergoglio and his “magic circle” — of consolidating his own power within a Church that would only nominally be “Catholic” but in reality would be heretical and schismatic.” [2]

Vigano: “We painfully acknowledge that, in this epochal clash, he who ought to be guiding the Barque of Peter has chosen to side with the Enemy, in order to sink it.” [2]

Vigano: “The worldly spirit, the enslavement to concupiscence, and – what is even more grave – the refusal to fight against the Evil One have infected a large part of the Hierarchy of the Catholic Church, up to its highest levels, making it the enemy of God, His Law, and our souls. As has happened with civil authority, so also religious authority has abdicated its proper role, disowning the very purpose for which it was willed by Divine Providence. The novelty of this perversion of authority, which heralds the epochal clash of the End Times, lies precisely in the corruption of the Shepherds and in the fact that the individual members of the faithful, as a flock without a leader, find themselves having to heroically resist an assault on the Citadel on several fronts, in which they have been abandoned by their leaders, who are opening the gates and allowing the enemy hordes to enter in order to exterminate us.” [3]

About Fratelli Tutti n. 277, Vigano says: “The reference to the conciliar document Nostra aetate is the confirmation of the ideological link of the Bergoglian heretical thought with the premises earlier set by Vatican II.” [4]

In October 2020, on the 23rd or 24th, Carlo Vigano gave a talk at the Catholic Identity Conference, titled: “Scapegoating Francis: How the Revolution of Vatican II serves the New World Order”. The talk is bizarre and represents a new step in the progression of the heretical and schismatic doctrines that Carlo Vigano disseminates. Here, he begins to talk about the “the Bergoglian anti-church” and the “eclipse of the [true] Church”. He claims that this began with Vatican II, hence the repeated references to 60 years ago. And Vigano claims all this is a preparation for the Antichrist. [5]

Vigano: “For sixty years, we have witnessed the eclipse of the true Church by an anti-church that has progressively appropriated her name, occupied the Roman Curia and her Dicasteries, Dioceses and Parishes, Seminaries and Universities, Convents and Monasteries. The anti-church has usurped her authority, and its ministers wear her sacred garments; it uses her prestige and power to appropriate her treasures, assets, and finances.”[5]

Vigano: “But with the Second Vatican Council, the darkness of this spurious entity came over the Church. Initially it obscured only a small part, but the darkness gradually increased.”[5]

Vigano: “I believe it is now understood beyond all reasonable doubt that the leaders of the present Catholic Hierarchy have placed themselves at the service of the globalist Oligarchy and Freemasonry… The purpose has now been declared: destroying Nations from within by means of the deep state and the Church of Christ by means of the deep church, in order to establish the kingdom of the Antichrist, with the help of the False Prophet.”[6]

Vigano: “In my recent essay for the Catholic Identity Conference in Pittsburgh, I spoke of the eclipse that is obscuring the Church of Christ, superimposing over it an anti-church of heretics, corrupt men and fornicators.” [7]

Vigano: “Thus, just as on Golgotha the Sanhedrin thought that it had defeated Our Lord by having him condemned to death by Pontius Pilate, today the Vatican Sanhedrin believes that it can overthrow the Church by delivering it into the hands of the globalist anti-Christian tyranny.” [7]

Vigano: “I wonder if Bergoglio himself, who was unknown to many people until March 13, 2013, is not being blackmailed by those who benefit with such impunity from his clemency. This would explain the motive that leads the one who sits on the Throne to rage with so much ruthlessness against the Church of Christ, while showing the greatest respect for people who are notoriously corrupt, perverted, and almost always implicated in sexual and financial scandals.” [7]

LifeSiteNews: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò delivered an address to the “Is the Pope Catholic?” conference this past weekend forcefully stating that Jorge Maria Bergoglio is a “false prophet” who fits the description of the one spoken of by the prophet Daniel during the time of the “final persecution” of the Church, to whom no Catholic owes “any” obedience or collaboration but rather steadfast resistance. “We are … far beyond heresy,” His Excellency declared. “[St. Robert] Bellarmine could never have imagined that an emissary of Freemasonry could go so far as to be elected pope with the purpose of demolishing the Church from within, usurping and abusing the very power of the papacy itself against the papacy. Nor could he have imagined that a hypothetical pope would surpass mere heresy and embrace all-out apostasy.”
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Vigano: “We cannot behave as if we were resolving a question of a point of Canon Law. No. The Lord is being outraged, the Church is being humiliated, and souls are being lost because a usurper remains on the Throne.”
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His Excellency made similar remarks in his “Vitium Consensus” message on October 1. At the time, Viganò argued that Catholics should consider the possibility that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio obtained the office of the papacy with a “criminal intention” to “carry out a coup d’état within the Church and bring the prophet of the Antichrist to the Throne of Peter.” He doubled down on those remarks Saturday by mentioning that a “Luciferian intelligence” is at work.
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Vigano: “Bergoglio’s heresy and apostasy” is “the tip of the iceberg of a much worse and more widespread crisis of the Hierarchy and of the Clergy that began sixty years ago and has now almost reached its peak,” Viganò also explained. Vatican II was “rightly defined by its own architects as ‘the 1789 of the Church.’ John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI did not fail to emphasize how the revolutionary and Masonic principles – liberté, égalité, fraternité – could in some way be shared and made their own by Catholicism.”
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Viganò again reiterated that “we are not dealing with a situation where a pope adheres to one specific heresy (which, moreover, Bergoglio has done repeatedly).” Rather, “no Doctor of the Church has ever contemplated the possibility of an apostate pope or of an election falsified and manipulated by powers avowedly hostile to Christ, because such an enormity could only happen in a unique and extraordinary context such as that of the final persecution foretold by the Prophet Daniel and described by Saint Paul. Our Lord’s admonition videritis abominationem desolationis – when you shall see the abomination of desolation (Mt 24:15) – is to be understood as such precisely because of its absolute uniqueness.”
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His Excellency concluded his remarks by stating that Catholics can be “morally certain” that “the tenant of Santa Marta is a false prophet.”
[LifeSiteNews, Stephen Kokx, Dec 12, 2023; title of article: “Archbishop Vigano: ‘False prophet’ Bergoglio is guilty of ‘all-out apostasy’ “]

Vigano, Dec 21, 2023: “The delirious Declaration Fiducia Supplicans, recently published by the parody of the former Holy Office renamed the Dicastery, definitively pierces the veil of hypocrisy and deception of the Bergoglian hierarchy, showing these false shepherds for what they really are: servants of Satan and his most zealous allies, beginning with the usurper who sits – an abomination of desolation – on the Throne of Peter. The very incipit of the document sounds, like all those issued by Bergoglio, mocking and deceptive: because trust in God’s forgiveness without repentance is called the presumption of salvation without merit and is a sin against the Holy Spirit.”[8]

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Carlo M. Vigano is a bishop who has separated himself from the Apostolic College and its head, the successor of Peter. Therefore, Vigano has lost all authority:

Pope Leo XIII: “But since the successor of Peter is one, and those of the Apostles are many, it is necessary to examine into the relations which exist between him and them according to the divine constitution of the Church. Above all things the need of union between the bishops and the successors of Peter is clear and undeniable. This bond once broken, Christians would be separated and scattered, and would in no wise form one body and one flock. “The safety of the Church depends on the dignity of the chief priest, to whom if an extraordinary and supreme power is not given, there are as many schisms to be expected in the Church as there are priests” (S. Hieronymus, Dialog, contra Luciferianos, n. 9). It is necessary, therefore, to bear this in mind, viz., that nothing was conferred on the apostles apart from Peter, but that several things were conferred upon Peter apart from the Apostles. St. John Chrysostom in explaining the words of Christ asks: “Why, passing over the others, does He speak to Peter about these things?” And he replies unhesitatingly and at once, “Because he was pre-eminent among the Apostles, the mouthpiece of the Disciples, and the head of the college” (Hom. lxxxviii. in Joan., n. I). He alone was designated as the foundation of the Church. To him He gave the power of binding and loosing; to him alone was given the power of feeding. On the other hand, whatever authority and office the Apostles received, they received in conjunction with Peter. “If the divine benignity willed anything to be in common between him and the other princes, whatever He did not deny to the others He gave only through him. So that whereas Peter alone received many things, He conferred nothing on any of the rest without Peter participating in it” (S. Leo M. sermo iv., cap. 2).

“15. From this it must be clearly understood that Bishops are deprived of the right and power of ruling, if they deliberately secede from Peter and his successors; because, by this secession, they are separated from the foundation on which the whole edifice must rest. They are therefore outside the edifice itself; and for this very reason they are separated from the fold, whose leader is the Chief Pastor; they are exiled from the Kingdom, the keys of which were given by Christ to Peter alone.” [Satis Cognitum, 14-15]

Archbishop Carlo M. Vigano has been deprived of the right and power of ruling because he has publicly obstinately perseveringly seceded from Peter and his successors. Therefore, he has no authority to establish a Seminary, nor to ordain men to the diaconate, priesthood, or episcopate.

Ronald L Conte Jr

Endnotes:
[1] LifeSiteNews, “Abp Vigano on the ‘roots of deviation’ of Vatican II and how Francis was chosen to revolutionize the Church”, June 10, 2020.
[2] LifeSiteNews, “Vigano Responds To Pope’s Nod To Homosexual Civil Unions”, by Abp. Carlo Maria Vigano, October 21, 2020.
[3] LifeSiteNews, “THE WORLD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL” by Abp. Vigano, Jun 29, 2021.
[4] LifeSiteNews, “Abp. Vigano on Pope’s new Fratelli Tutti document: Brotherhood against God is ‘blasphemous,’ ” Oct 6, 2020.
[5] LifeSiteNews, Catholic Identity Conference, “SCAPEGOATING FRANCIS: How the Revolution of Vatican II serves the New World Order”, Oct. 23 or 24, 2020; The Remnent Newspaper
[6] LifeSiteNews, Archbishop Viganò: A Den of Thieves, Carlo Maria Vigano, December 21, 2020.
[7] Vigano Blasts Pope’s ‘Blackmailable’ CIRCLE, Abp. Carlo Maria Vigano, ChurchMilitant.com, November 3, 2020.
[8] LifeSiteNews, Archbishop. Viganò: Bergoglio’s ‘blessings’ for homosexual couples shows he is a ‘servant of Satan’, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò Thu Dec 21, 2023.