The Viganò Testimony - Viganò reveals what really happened when Pope Francis met privately with Kim Davis

Breaking overnight are new comments by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews.  Viganò defends himself from previous actions by certain Church official which hurt his reputation and, if true, were outright lies. This is all in reference to the meeting between Pope Francis and Kim Davis, the American woman jailed for conscientious objection over the demand to perform a civil, so-called "marriage" between two men. Most are familiar with the story.

Briefly on this matter, during Pope Bergoglio's visit to Washington, he met with Kim Davis at the Nunciature. Carlo Maria Viganò was the Papal Nuncio at the time and had arranged the meeting. After the Pope was back in Rome, a media firestorm erupted in the secular media and pushed by the usual suspects, Thomas J. Rosica, CSB (who, if you are not aware, threatened to sue this writer, here, and the full history, here), and Antonio Spadaro, S.J. Very quickly, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò was thrown under the bus and made to bear the shame of the media uproar.

Over the last seven days, the secular media and the broader Catholic media have made Carlo Maria Viganò the villain. Certain decisions that had been taken by him in his role as Nuncio, or public comments made in an official capacity as Nuncio have been used to discredit him. These range from an investigation into a former Archbishop in Minneapolis an apparent homosexual and accusations against him and a speech given in which "Uncle" Ted McCarrick was present. 

Whether Viganò acted correctly or incorrectly in his professional role is not the issue. He may have been wrong then, he may not have been. It is not Viganò's credibility that these minions should be examining, it is the report if the Testimony and the accusations contained within it. Yet, these media sycophants summoned to duty by Bergoglio on the flight back from Ireland would rather go after the messenger than determine the veracity of the message. There is a reason that President Donald J. Trump calls them the "fake news media" and he is right. The similarities between this and the lack of truth reported in the matters of Hillary Clinton, Russian dossiers and corruption are not lost on this writer.

These evil people would rather deflect than investigate the abuse and rape of thousands of boys and young men at the hands of sadistic, satanic homosexuals. Can the tin-foiled hat crowd be correct that there is a global paedophile/ebophile ring that is so powerful, so deeply entrenched that it controls through threats and blackmail everything from government to Hollywood to the Church? Homosexuality is the new god to these filthy scoundrels. 

Every priest who is a sodomite. Every bishop, cardinal or even this Pope must be outed. If you were abused and are a layman or woman or a priest, now is the time to come forward. 

Expose it all. 

Name them!

Now, let us get to the current matter with Kim Davis whom we have written about previously and Viganò in an exclusive from LifeSiteNews.

As you read Viganò's letter in response to words by Juan Carlos Cruz alleging what the Pope said to him as reported in the New York Times certain things come to mind?

• Why would the Pope even raise the matter of Kim Davis with Juan Carlos Cruz; what would have been its possible relevance and if so, why would he state that he "fired that Nuncio?"
• If he didn't state it to Cruz, then Cruz is lying, but why? It is absurd to think that Cruz, who by the way is a homosexual no doubt due to the clerical grooming, would make up such a storyline if the Pope hadn't said it, it is simply nonsensical to believe he would make it up.
• The behaviour of Jorge Mario Bergoglio at the meeting in Rome with Viganò combined with the previous behaviour as articulated in The Testimony on how Viganò was questioned by Bergoglio on what McCarrick was "like" or if Wuerl were "good or bad," shows that Bergoglio is a psychopath. 

Someone is lying.

It doesn't seem to me to be Cruz or Viganò

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-vigano-reveals-what-really-happened-when-pope-francis-met-private

Here below is the official English text of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s statement on Pope Francis private meeting with Kim Davis and what really happened. The English text may also be accessed in pdf form here, while a pdf of the Italian original may be read here. Emphasis not added.

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Pope Francis met privately with Kim Davis: here is what really happened
by
His Excellency Carlo Maria Viganò
Titular Archbishop of di Ulpiana
Apostolic Nuncio

On August 28, 2018, the New York Times reported part of a conversation that Juan Carlos Cruz, the most well known Chilean sexual abuse victim of Father Karadima and Bishop Barros, allegedly had with Pope Francis. Inexplicably, in his conversation with Cruz, the Pope is said to have spoken about his meeting with Kim Davis during his visit to Washington on September 24, 2015, and to have said that he knew nothing about the case before the meeting.

Faced with the Pope’s reported statement, I feel obliged to recount the events as they really unfolded.

At the end of the dinner, at the Nunciature in Washington, on the evening of September 23, 2015, I told the Pope that I needed him to grant me a half hour, because I wished to bring to his attention, and possible approval, a delicate and easily achievable initiative; that is, to meet personally and in a completely confidential way, out of the media spotlight, with Kim Davis, a clerk in Rowan County, Kentucky, the first American citizen condemned and imprisoned for one week for having exercised her right to conscientious objection.

At the beginning of our meeting, on the evening of September 23, I gave the Pope a one-page memo summarizing the Davis case (here attached in Italian and English). The Pope immediately appeared in favor of such an initiative, but added that the meeting would have political implications, and said, “I don’t understand these things, so it would be good for you to hear Cardinal Parolin’s opinion.”

It was already 9:30 in the evening, so I went in person with two of the counselors of the Nunciature (an Italian and a Lithuanian) to the hotel not far away, where the Pope’s entourage was being hosted. Since I had called ahead to give advance notice of my arrival, His Excellency Archbishop Angelo Becciu (Substitute of the Secretary of State) and His Excellency Archbishop Paul Gallagher (Secretary for Relations with States, and Head of the Political Section of the Secretariat of State) were waiting for me in the hotel lobby. They immediately notified me that Cardinal Parolin had already retired to his room, and they did not consider it appropriate to disturb him, since they could easily make him aware of our meeting the following morning.

We then met in a small lounge of the hotel. As I said, there were five of us. I gave them the same memo that I had given to the Pope, setting forth its content and explaining the reason for my visit, which had been requested by the Pope. After considering the case, Archbishop Becciu was immediately in favor of the Pope receiving Davis privately before he left Washington for New York.

Archbishop Gallagher, while showing support for the idea given the importance of defending the right to conscientious objection, said that it was appropriate to verify from the point of view of common law whether there were any reasons that would render the meeting inadvisable; namely, whether the legal proceedings brought against Davis were concluded or were still open. I therefore had him speak by telephone with the canonist for the Nunciature, who before becoming a priest had been a judge in the American military courts and a professor of canon law. After the conversation with the canonist to clarify matters — he said there were no procedural obstacles — Bishop Gallagher gave an unconditionally favorable opinion that the Pope should receive Davis.

The following morning, after the Mass that the Pope concelebrated with us in the Nunciature, I informed the Pope of the positive opinion of his two principal collaborators, who had then told Cardinal Parolin about our meeting. The Pope then gave his consent, and I organized to have Davis come to the Nunciature without anyone noticing, by having her sit in a separate room. Everything was made much easier by the fact that Davis was already in Washington, where she was invited to receive a Cost of Discipleship Award from the Family Research Council.

Before the meeting took place, I alerted the photographer from L’Osservatore Romano that he should not release the photographs of the meeting without the permission of his superiors. He of course observed the orders, but took many photographs, which have never been published, and are currently kept in the photographic archive of L’Osservatore Romano. I also had Davis promise me in advance that she would not give any news to the media until after the Pope’s return to Rome, at the end of his pastoral visit to the USA. Davis faithfully kept her promise.

Early in the afternoon of September 24, before leaving for New York City, the Pope entered as planned into the sitting room where Davis and her husband were waiting for him. He embraced her affectionately, thanked her for her courage, and invited her to persevere. Davis was very moved and started crying. She was then taken back to her hotel in a car driven by a pontifical gendarme, accompanied by an American Monsignor and staff member of the Nunciature.

Once the Pope returned to Rome from Philadelphia after the World Meeting with the Families, the news of his meeting with Davis broke out in the media. An avalanche of phone calls, faxes and emails arrived at the Nunciature in Washington and the Vatican Press Office, many with insults and protests, but also many in favor of the Pope’s meeting with Davis. In an article of September 30, 2015, the New York Timesreported that “Vatican officials initially would not confirm that the meeting occurred, finally doing so on Wednesday afternoon, while refusing to discuss any details.” The Vatican Press Office then issued a statement — without their superiors in the Secretariat of State ever consulting me — stating that the Pope had never received Davis in a private audience, and that at most he may have greeted her among many other people before departing for New York. Father Rosica and Father Lombardi increased added to the lies, and were quoted as follows in the October 2, 2015 editionof the New York Times: “But the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Vatican spokesman, said on Friday that the office of Archbishop Viganò had extended the invitation to Ms. Davis and that the Pope was probably not briefed about her case. And the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the chief Vatican spokesman, depicted the meeting as one meet-and-greet among many.” This is the transparency of the Holy See under Pope Francis!

The next morning, at about 6:00 a.m. in Washington — I remember it well because I had just entered the chapel at the Nunciature — I received a frantic telephone call from Cardinal Parolin, who told me “You must come immediately to Rome because the Pope is furious with you!” I left as soon as possible and was received by the Pope at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, around 7 o’clock in the evening on October 9, at the conclusion of one of the afternoon sessions of the Second Synod on the Family.

The Pope received me for almost an hour, and was very affectionate and paternal. He immediately apologized to me for troubling me with coming to Rome, and he lavished continuous praise on me for the way I had organized his visit to the USA, and for the incredible reception he received in America. He never expected such a welcome.

To my great surprise, during this long meeting, the Pope did not mention even once the audience with Davis!

As soon as my audience with the Pope was over, I immediately phoned Cardinal Parolin, and said to him, “The Pope was so good with me. Not a word of reproach, only praise for the success of his visit to the USA.” At which point Cardinal Parolin replied, “It’s not possible, because with me he was furious about you.”

This is a summary of the events.

As mentioned at the beginning, on August 28, 2018, the New York Times reported an interview with Juan Carlos Cruz, in which Cruz reported that during his meeting with the Pope, in April 2018, the Pope told him about the Davis case. According to Cruz, the Pope said: “I did not know who the woman was and he [Msgr. Viganò] snuck her in to say hello to me — and of course they made a whole publicity out of it. And I was horrified and I fired that Nuncio.”

One of them is lying: either Cruz or the Pope? What is certain is that the Pope knew very well who Davis was, and he and his close collaborators had approved the private audience. Journalists can always check, by asking the prelates Becciu, Gallagher and Parolin, as well as the Pope himself.

It is clear, however, that Pope Francis wanted to conceal the private audience with the first American citizen condemned and imprisoned for conscientious objection.

+ Carlo Maria Viganò
Titular Archbishop di Ulpiana
Apostolic Nuncio
August 30, 2018
Feast of Saint Jeanne Jugan and Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster

Official translation by Diane Montagna 

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