Ultra-conservative Carlo Maria Viganò says he is accused of splitting the church and denying pontiff’s legitimacy
Carlo Maria Viganò, 83, an ultra-conservative who was the Vatican’s ambassador to the US from 2011 to 2016, said the powerful department of doctrine had summoned him on Thursday to hear the charges.
He was also charged with “having denied the legitimacy of ‘Pope Francis’, of having broken communion ‘with Him’, and of having rejected the Second Vatican Council” in the 1960s, which set the church on a modernising path, Viganò wrote. “I regard the accusations against me as an honour,” he said before launching into a lengthy criticism of the pope.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Pope Francis hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, 100 other comedians in Vatican“All of us were thinking, how did this happen?” said comedian Conan O’Brien. “Why are we here, and when are they going to throw us out?”
Read more »
Pope Francis hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, 100 other comedians in Vatican“All of us were thinking, how did this happen?” said comedian Conan O’Brien. “Why are we here, and when are they going to throw us out?”
Read more »
Pope Francis hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, 100 other comedians in Vatican“All of us were thinking, how did this happen?” said comedian Conan O’Brien. “Why are we here, and when are they going to throw us out?”
Read more »
Vatican issues apology over Pope Francis’s ‘homophobic’ slurStatement says pontiff apologises ‘to those who felt offended by the term reported by others’
Read more »
Pope Francis apologises for using vulgar homophobic term in closed-door meeting with Italian bishopsThe pope used the term during a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops on May 20.
Read more »
Pope Francis uses vulgar homophobic term in closed-door meeting with Italian bishopsThe term was used as he reiterated that gay people should not be allowed to become priests.
Read more »