An Excommunicated Papal Nuncio & VP Non secular Allegiance

Vice presidents are within the information at the moment whereas we’re evaluating Joe Biden’s Catholicism and that of VP hopeful JD Vance.  Biden’s religion is born of Vatican II, Vance’s is born of the blowback to Vatican II that grew wings beneath the papacies of JP II and Benedict XVI.* 

Collectively, the 2 popes went out of their strategy to elevate Opus Dei, the order based by a Spanish fascist priest who supported dictator Franco, amongst different issues.  Resistance to Vatican II is alive and properly in highly effective gamers equivalent to Leonard Leo, who virtually singlehandedly introduced in regards to the present MAGA Supreme Court docket.** 

And Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Basis, architect of the infamous Venture 2025, the blueprint for the fascist takeover of America if Trump wins the 2024 election.***

The fascist wing of the RC church makes struggle with Pope Francis by ignoring Laudato Si and selling denial about local weather change–“drill, child drill!” being their meme.  Additionally, by holding up the shadow facet of capitalism as practiced unfettered on Wall Road and amongst worldwide conglomerates that want their income to the lot of the poor.  A “preferential choice for the poor” will not be of their world view any greater than defending Mom Earth is.  Slicing billionaires’ taxes is their precedence.

They’re properly represented within the American bishops’ convention which selected to make abortion (i.e., controlling girls’s our bodies) the #1 difficulty this presidential election 12 months, fairly than whether or not democracy can and will survive. 

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vignano, who was appointed papal nuncio to the US by Pope Benedict in 2011 and served to 2018, has additionally questioned the teachings of the Second Vatican Council (Escriva, the founding father of Opus Dei, was additionally against Vatican II).  Vignano additionally questioned the legitimacy of Pope Francis.  

However in a tremendous and traditionally unprecedented occasion, Vignano was not too long ago excommunicated by Pope Francis.  

What does it imply {that a} Vatican ambassador to the US for seven years would subsequently be excommunicated by a Pope?  What about all of the American bishops he received appointed?  And people candidates he vetoed from appointments?  What injury did he do as ambassador that may take generations to undo? 

How did he influence the American bishops convention itself—which elected an Opus Dei archbishop as its head and nonetheless has a majority of bishops in America of that persuasion–although Pope Francis is making an attempt to change that.  

To be continued

*Paul Elie, “J. D. Vance’s Radical Faith,” The New Yorker, 7/24/2024.

**See Jay Michaelson, “The Secrets and techniques of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump’s Supreme Court docket Decide,” The Day by day Beast, 7/24/2018.

***Rachel Leingang and Stephanie Kirchgaessner, “Kevin Roberts, architect of Venture 2025, has shut ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei,” The Guardian, 7/26/2924,

See Matthew Fox, The Pope’s Struggle: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Campaign Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved.

Banner Picture: Now-excommunicated former Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, presided over solemn Vespers at St. Joseph Province, 2015. Photograph by St. Joseph Province on Flickr.

Queries for Contemplation

What does it imply to you while you be taught of the influence of a neo-fascist non secular order on the Supreme Court docket and on political leaders and actions in our time?  The place and the way does your religious dedication kick in?

Really useful Studying

The Pope’s Struggle affords a provocative have a look at three a long time of corruption within the Catholic Church, specializing in Josef Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. The remaining part within the guide focuses on birthing a very catholic Christianity.
“This guide ought to be learn by everyone, not just for its ferocious braveness, but in addition for its imaginative and prescient for what must be saved from the damaging forces that threaten genuine Christianity.” ~ Andrew Harvey, creator of The Hope.
“Within the gripping The Pope’s Struggle, Matthew Fox takes an unwavering have a look at the layers of corruption within the Catholic Church, holding ethical fact towards energy.”   — Jason Berry, creator of Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Energy within the Papacy of John Paul II