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By Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Much has been written in recent days about yet another
Vatican scandal, this time involving Cardinal Becciu, Prefect of the
Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Faced with accusations that still have
to be proven, Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s response seemed to be dictated more by
anger than by love of truth, more by a delusion of omnipotence than by the will
for justice – in any case by a serious despotic abuse of authority.
From this point of view, we can now believe that the
deprivation of the Sacred Purple and the reduction to the lay state have become
summary executions, with a very strong media impact in favor of the image of
those who inflict them, beyond the real moral and criminal responsibilities of
the condemned. Mr. McCarrick, accused of very serious crimes, was directly
condemned by the Pope, without the trial documents and testimonies concerning
him being made public. With this ploy, Bergoglio wanted to give an image of
himself that however contrasts with the reality of the facts, since his stated
desire to “clean up” the Vatican does not correspond to the fact of his having
surrounded himself with widely compromised characters – to begin precisely by
McCarrick – giving them official assignments, then kicking them out as soon as
their scandals were exposed. And on all of them, as those who work in the Curia
know well, already weighed serious suspicions, if not even any detailed
evidence of guilt.
In confirmation of this instrumental method, indeed of the
ruse of the Bergoglian moralizing action, there are the cases of upright and
completely innocent people, who have not been spared the infamy of discredit,
media exposure, judicial pillory: let us just think of the case of Cardinal
Pell, abandoned to himself in a sham trial set up by an Australian court, and
for which the Holy See refrained from any intervention which would have been
its duty. In other cases, such as that of Zanchetta, Bergoglio spent himself in
an all-out defense of his protégé, even going so far as to accuse the victims
of the Prelate of perjury, and promoting him to a position of high
responsibility at APSA that was specifically created for him. And today
Galantino and Zanchetta are de facto administrators of the entire patrimony of
the Holy See and now also of the portfolio of the Secretariat of State. And
what about unpresentable characters like Bertone and Maradiaga, Peña Parra and
Paglia? Living scandals…
Birds of a feather stick together.
Let us therefore leave aside the innocent and guilty, united
by the lynching artfully induced by those who wanted to get rid of them or
because they had shown themselves not very inclined to compromise, or because
their zeal for the cause of Santa Marta had led them to a dangerous ease in a
certainty of impunity. People of mirrored honesty and great faith such as
Ettore Gotti Tedeschi or Cardinal Pell, without forgetting Eugenio Hasler and
the mere executors of Becciu in the Secretariat of State, were treated worse
than a serial abuser like Theodore McCarrick or a (presumed) manipulator like
Becciu. It is to be believed that the annoyance of having honest and
incorruptible collaborators led to their expulsion, just as the blackmail of
immoral and dishonest collaborators was considered a sort of guarantee of their
loyalty and their silence. Time has shown that honest men have suffered
injustice with dignity without discrediting the Vatican or the person of the
Pope; it is to be believed that on the other side the corrupt and the vicious
will, in turn, resort to blackmail against their accusers, as courtiers without
honor have always done.
In this recent event, the constant theme that can be seen is
the attitude of Santa Marta, which has been compared in many quarters to that
of a South American junta. I believe, instead, that behind this dripping of
scandals involving prominent personalities of the Hierarchy and Roman Curia
there is the deliberate will to demolish the Church herself, to discredit her
before the world, to compromise her authority and credibility before the
faithful. The operation we have been witnessing for the past seven terrible
years is clearly aimed at the destruction of the Catholic institution, through
the loss of credibility, disaffection and disgust for the actions and unworthy
behavior of its members; an operation that began with the sexual scandals
already under the previous Pontificates, but which this time is to be seen as
the protagonist, as the main actor precisely the one who sits on the Throne,
and who with his own words and works is able to deal the most devastating blows
to the Papacy and the Church.
The “demythologization of the Papacy” advocated by
progressives essentially consists in its ridicule, in its profanation, that is,
in making it profane, not sacred. And it is unheard of and very serious that
this subversive operation is carried out by those who hold that Papacy and wear
its robes, albeit awkwardly. Similarly, the profanation of the Church is
carried out with a scientific method by the very leaders of the Hierarchy, who
make themselves disliked by the people of God and are pitied by the world,
under the smug gaze of the mainstream media.
This modus operandi is not new. It was adopted – with less
media impact but still with the same purposes – on the eve of the French
Revolution. Making the aristocracy hateful; corrupting the nobility with vices
unknown to the people; eradicate the sense of moral responsibility towards the
subjects; causing scandals and fomenting injustice towards the weakest and the
poorest; to enslave the ruling class to the interests of sects and lodges: this
was the premise, artfully created by Freemasonry, to arouse the discredit of
the Monarchy and legitimize the revolts of the masses, prepared by a few
seditious in the pay of the Lodges. And if the nobles did not fall into the
trap of vice and corruption, the conspirators could accuse them of the
wickedness of others and condemn them to the gallows under the pressure of
hatred cultivated among the rebels, among the criminals, among the enemies of
the King and of God. A mob of infamous ones that had nothing to lose and
everything to gain.
Today, after more than two centuries of a tyranny of
revolutionary thought, the Church is the victim of the same system adopted
against the Monarchy. The aristocracy of the Church is as corrupt as, and
perhaps more than, the French nobles, and does not understand that this vulnus
to its reputation and authority is the necessary premise for the guillotine,
the massacre, the fury of the rebels. And also to Terror. Let the moderates
think carefully that a next Pope only slightly less progressive than Bergoglio
can sedate souls and save the Papacy and the Church. Because the theological
hatred of God’s enemies, once the good Shepherds have been eliminated and the
faithful removed, will not stop before those who today deplore the present
Pontificate but defend its conciliar matrix: the conservatives who believe they
can distance themselves so much from modernists as well as traditionalists will
end up like the Girondins.
“Mundamini, qui fertis vasa Domini” says Wisdom (Is 52: 11).
The only way to get out of the crisis of the Church, which is a crisis of Faith
and Morals, is to recognize the deviation from the right path, retrace the path
taken and take the path that Our Lord marked with His Blood: the way of
Calvary, of the Cross, of the Passion. When the Shepherds will not have the
smell of the sheep but rather the sweet perfume of the Chrism with which they
have been made similar to the High and Eternal Priest, they will be conformed
again to the divine model of Christ, and with Him they will know how to sacrifice
themselves for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Nor will the divine
Shepherd make them lack His Grace. As long as they want to please the world,
the world will compensate them with its deceptions, its lies, its most abject
vices. The choice, after all, is always radical: eternal glory with Christ or
eternal damnation far from Him.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò
