Podcast: Vatican versus Viganò (TRADCAST EXPRESS 194)

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Podcast: Vatican versus Viganò
(TRADCAST EXPRESS 194)

Our latest podcast episode, TRADCAST EXPRESS 194, was published on June 24, 2024, and it covers mostly the Vatican’s announced extrajudicial trial against ‘Archbishop’ Carlo Maria Viganò for the crime of schism, as we had reported back on June 20:

• Vatican Puts ‘Archbishop’ Carlo Maria Vigano on Trial for Schism

In this episode, we do the unthinkable and apply some Vatican II ecclesiology to the case at hand, which leads us to ask some curious questions.

If indeed Viganò is a schismatic…

• does that mean he will now get invited to ecumenical gatherings?
• will ‘Cardinal’ Kurt Koch, the Vatican’s chief ecumenical offer, now look to start a theological dialogue and maintain warm, friendly relations with him?
• will Francis ask Viganò for theological input?
• is Francis going to declare that Viganò is a legitimate shepherd of the flock of Christ, as he did with regard to the Russian Orthodox patriarch Kirill?
• does Francis believe Vigano’s theological position is positively willed by God as an ‘enrichment to humanity’ that contributes to that ‘beautiful mosaic’ that is the diversity of religions?
• will Francis now concede that Vigano’s theses are simply another way of coming to God?
• is Francis going to allow Viganò to offer Mass in one of the historic basilicas of Rome, as he has permitted invalid Anglican clergy to do?
• being newly excluded and marginalized, will Francis declare that we should encounter in the face of ‘Abp.’ Viganò the face of Christ?
• etc. — the possibility are endless!

Before the podcast concludes, we bring a sobering reality check to ‘Pope’ Francis’ address to a delegation of Lutherans at the Vatican on June 20, in which he claimed, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that the Last Judgment will be a “hyper-ecumenical” day because then all Christians — by which he means Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants — will be united. Or so he thinks.

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The show notes referenced in the podcast audio are the following:

• “Vatican Puts ‘Archbishop’ Carlo Maria Vigano on Trial for Schism”, Novus Ordo Wire (June 20, 2024)
• “Viganò lets it rip: Former Vatican Nuncio publishes scathing Condemnation of Vatican II Religion”, Novus Ordo Wire (June 14, 2020)
• “Dangerous Heresy in attractive Wrapping Paper: Abp.  Viganò’s Letter to President Trump”, Novus Ordo Wire (June 8, 2020)
• “Abp. Carlo Viganò and Taylor Marshall participate in Ecumenical Prayer Rally with Protestants and Jews”, Novus Ordo Wire (Dec. 15, 2020)
• “Francis to Russian Orthodox Patriarch: ‘We are Shepherds of the Same Holy Flock of God'”, Novus Ordo Wire (May 6, 2022)
• “Faithless Francis: Heretics and Apostates are Part of the Church, ‘We Are Brothers'”, Novus Ordo Watch (Feb. 2, 2022)
• “Vatican II’s New Doctrine on the Church”, Novus Ordo Wire (Aug. 23, 2016)
• Antipope Francis, Address to Delegates of the Lutheran World Federation, Vatican.va (June 20, 2024)
• “The Sense and Scope of Schism: A Pre-Vatican II Canonist Speaks”, Novus Ordo Watch (June 22, 2024)
• Denzinger: The Sources of Catholic Dogma (1954 ed.)

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