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Love or loathe the Roman Catholic Church, you have to admit that when it comes to a papal conclave it's unrivalled for intrigue, politicking, blackmailing and general finagling. Especially when 108 of the 135 cardinal electors were appointed by an antipope, and are therefore invalid and so arguably not able to elect any man to the Chair of Peter - because as elected illegally himself, Jorge Mario Bergoglio can have no successor.
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is doubling down on his belief that the upcoming conclave is invalid due to irregularities with its members.
“At most, the College will be able to designate its own representative, someone who will renew and continue the usurpation of the recently deceased predecessor, and see the ongoing fraud further ratified by a complicit or cowardly episcopate,” His Excellency told Italian journalist Francesco Borgonovo this week.
Following Francis’ death, Archbishop Viganò has spoken out on a number of topics, not only about Francis’ legacy, which he has described as a “usurpation” of the Throne of St. Peter, but also about the upcoming meeting of the cardinals, which is set to kick off on May 7.
In an April 23 letter sent to an Italian television program, His Excellency commented that due to “Bergoglio’s acceptance of the Papacy [being] flawed,” the clergy he has named cardinals are “false.”
“Of the 136 Cardinal electors, 108 were ‘created’ by [Bergoglio]; which means that whatever Pope is elected in the upcoming Conclave – even if he were a new Saint Pius X – his authority will be compromised by having been elected by false cardinals, created by a false Pope,” His Excellency said.
Archbishop Viganò re-iterated that position in his interview with Borgonovo.
“A College of Cardinals composed of 108 ‘cardinals’ created by a Jesuit who usurped the Papacy for twelve years cannot validly elect a legitimate pope,” he stated.
He also said, “the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis that regulates the Conclave, confirmed by the Motu Proprio of Benedict XVI Normas Nonnullas, peremptorily establishes that the number of Cardinal electors must not exceed 120 individuals. But the Cardinal electors who make up the imminent “conclave” are 136: we are therefore faced with a very serious violation that alone would be enough to undermine the legitimacy of any supposedly valid Conclave.”
His Excellency made other striking remarks, including pushing back against the election of a “conservative” candidate.
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| Cardinal Parolin - NOT a conservative as he touts himself |
“A moderately conservative ‘pope’ … could be effective to administer a palliative cure to contain the devastating effects of the disease that strikes the Catholic Church, rather than a radical treatment that removes its causes. But such a moderate treatment has already been tried and did not work,” he added.
Archbishop Viganò’s perspective on the conclave has won the support of renowned Catholic philosopher Dr. Josef Seifert.
In an open letter published this week, Dr. Seifert called on Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals, to launch an official investigation into the many accusations of heresy against Francis before the start of the next conclave to determine which cardinals should be allowed to participate.
“If the accusation of heresy prior to Pope Francis’s election, during and after it, proves to be correct, two thirds of the present college of Cardinals would be excluded from entering the Conclave,” Seifert said.
Seifert’s support for Archbishop Viganò’s position is significant, as he was not only an intimate friend of Pope John Paul II but also a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. He has also held a number of prominent positions at prestigious Catholic institutions during his lengthy career. He was scandalously not re-appointed to his post at the academy by Francis in 2017, having been replaced with pro-abortion, pro-“social justice”, and pro-open borders “theologians.”
Archbishop Viganò amplified Seifer’s letter by sharing it to his X account.
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Archbishop Viganò further told Borgonovo that he has little hope now that “power is now in the hands of two very corrupt figures: the Substitute of the Secretariat of State, Edgard Peña Parra – whose crimes I have extensively denounced – and the Cardinal Camerlengo, Kevin Farrell.”
He then shared a list of accusations about Farrell, who he said “knows all the accomplices of McCarrick’s crimes and will be able to maneuver the upcoming ‘conclave’ by means of blackmail or promises.”
+Vigano posted his accusations against +Farrell on X:
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| Irish-born American Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Farrell |
Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Farrell comes from the Legionaries of Christ, the religious congregation that was at the center of a very serious scandal related to the sexual abuse and crimes of its founder, Father Marcial Maciel.
Farrell was in charge of the management of its enormous financial resources, and naturally he did not notice Maciel's aberrant deviations ...
That is also why he preferred to conceal this dark part of his record with the Legionaries of Christ, and precisely because of these "merits" of his, and his contiguity with Maciel, Farrell was chosen by Theodore McCarrick as his close associate. He made him his own Auxiliary in Washington where he lived for six years in the same apartment as the then Archbishop.
Even then he did not notice anything... McCarrick entrusted him with the financial management of the Papal Foundation founded precisely 1988, when the Vatican was coming out with broken bones from the Marcinkus affair and the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. After only two years, in 1990, the Papal Foundation was raising $215 million: a sizeable sum for the Holy See's disastrous accounts, to buy silences and solicit promotions.
This fund-raising ability of McCarrick earned him untouchability by the Vatican since the time of John Paul II. In 2007 Farrell is promoted to the Dallas See; in 2016 he is transferred to Rome, as prefect of the super-dicastery for the laity, family and life; in 2019 he is appointed Camerlengo of Holy Roman Church, despite his notorious addiction to alcohol.
Farrell knows all the accomplices in McCarrick's crimes and can maneuver the Conclave through blackmail or promises.
His absolute unworthiness and the scandal he represents - especially for McCarrick's victims and for American Catholics - must be denounced so as to induce him to renounce his prerogatives as Camerlengo and as an electing member of the Conclave, following the example of the Cardinal of Edinburgh, Keith O'Brien, who after denouncing his unworthiness voluntarily withdrew from the 2013 Conclave.
His Excellency also told Borgonovo about who it was that excommunicated him.
“I was convicted and declared guilty of the canonical crime of schism and punished by excommunication for a non-crime by an illegitimate tribunal, on the mandate of an illegitimate ‘pope,’” he said. The excommunication “was imposed on me by a heretic pornographer, Tucho Fernández, appointed by Bergoglio to demolish the former Holy Office.”
Archbishop Viganò also revealed that “on the very day of my seventy-fifth birthday, while still living in Washington as Apostolic Nuncio, Bergoglio ordered my expulsion from my Vatican apartment, which John Paul II had ordered me to have for the rest of my life, and also ordered me to be excluded from the residence for retired nuncios in Rome, the Casa San Benedetto.”
He added that, “Bergoglio revoked my Vatican citizenship, my Vatican passport, and my Vatican driver’s license which enabled me to move about independently.”
His Excellency further stated that Francis had a devastating impact on the Church and papacy.
“Bergoglio did not need to change doctrine: he instead managed to make it irrelevant and negligible, creating a certain liquid inclusiveness without dogmas and without ideals … he made sure that after him no Pope could obtain from Catholics that obedience that he made hateful, because it was extorted in order to support heresies and moral deviations.”
To read Archbishop Viganò’s interview in full, visit the Exsurge Domine website here.https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-vigano-cardinals-created-by-bergoglio-cannot-validly-elect-a-pope/?utm_source=twittercath
Holy Family (Bartolomé Esteban Murillo)
St Joseph the Workman, please pray for the Church
Notable quotations from Archbishop Viganò's latest interview: "At most, the College will be able to designate its own representative, someone who will renew and continue the usurpation." "A moderately conservative 'pope' ... could be effective to administer a palliative cure to contain the devastating effects of
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-vigano-cardinals-created-by-bergoglio-cannot-validly-elect-a-pope/?utm_source=twittercath
https://www.fromrome.info/2025/04/30/archbishop-vigano-on-the-upcoming-conclave/
ReplyDeleteBeing baptized as a Roman-Catholic many moon's-ago and being schooled in the old strict convents etc, there is plenty I could say in my elder-years regarding what I have learned about the atrocities committed by the Vatican over the centuries.
I have my-own Christian beliefs as a result of such. I've known some wonderful down-to-earth priests, but there have been some whom I pity when their souls move-on into the next dimension.
Mark S Gilbert The Catholic Church is a human institution as well as divine, and subject to all the ill-effects of original sin. Yes, one can only pray for the grace of repentance for the bishops and priests who've succumbed to the post-Vatican II heresies of the Vatican's Novus Ordo, Synodal,Bergoglian sect. . You're right; they're greatly to be pitied. So is anyone who has been enticed away from the true Church, which still persists in the faithful remnant, and will always, and for ever.
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ReplyDeleteTh e Renaissance,and subsequent Reformation,was a massive,earth-shattering denunciation of the Roman church.Now ,almost 500 years on,people are still in awe of the papacy which is the biggest rort ever to have happened in the history of the world.enslaving millions because of their attitude towards birth control,not allowing priests to marry[and the concomitant crimes committed against young children and others by these kiddy-fiddlers]
John Kerrison, spoken like a good Protestant. Or atheist. The Renaissance and Reformation (more accurately 'Deformation') were in fact a 'massive, earth-shattering denunciation' of human pride. Their bitter fruits are obvious everywhere - perhaps especially in the birth control and abortion rightly condemned by the Church, which is causing the world to die slowly fby sterility.
DeleteIf a man wants to marry, he doesn't enter the priesthood. Simple.
And statistically, 'kiddy-fiddlers' abound more in other denominations and in secular organisations than in the Catholic Church.
ReplyDeleteWell said. Sharing.
ReplyDeleteEminent lay theologian, Joseph Seaffort, wrote an open letter to Cardinals Batista Ray and Kevin Ferrell to investigate Pope Francis for the heresy charges from all the cardinals, bishops and priests excommunicated for saying so. Popes Paul 4th and St Pius 5th, wrote, infallibly, that heretics cannot be popes. All "papal" actions by a heretic pope are null and void, including the appointment of every cardinal he ever appointed. Therefore, the heresy charge must be adjudicated before the 80% of possibly unworthy uncardinals, appointed as uncardinals by a possibly heretical NOT-pope, can be allowed to elect a new heretical unpope.
The full text from my summary is at:
https://youtu.be/rory7JU7J0g?t=1123
DeleteAs the post states: "In an open letter published this week, Dr. (Josef) Seifert called on Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals, to launch an official investigation into the many accusations of heresy against Francis before the start of the next conclave to determine which cardinals should be allowed to participate.
ReplyDeleteI went there, I saw it...I was astonished!
My blood ran cold!
Beggars outside the walls.
Swiss guards done up in colourful tights holding fort.
An inland island sovereign state hoarding many of the treasures of old Rome;
immune from common law,
governed by a bunch of old white homosexuals living in a breeding ground of deviancy.
Window dressed for the stupid public as a place of divine inspiration.
Michaelangelo wasted his brilliance there.
God was re created there.
Man lost his way there.
Greg Rasmusen, I understand.
DeleteBut beggars are everywhere. Even in the main street of Waipukurau.
An army may dress as it wishes, surely.
The Vatican State is a full subject of public international law.
The bunch of 'old white homosexuals' belong not to the Catholic Church but to its false substitute - the Novus Ordo, Synodal Vatican II Bergoglian sect.
As a devout Catholic, Michelangelo used his brilliance to give glory to God in the city chosen by God as the Seat of His Vicar on Earth (a title formally rejected by 'Pope Francis' who was not a pope, but a usurper of the papacy).
God was established there.
The Bergoglians of the Vatican have lost their way there but millions more have found it.
DeleteJulia du Fresne Do you think your God, the Catholic God of white justice and mercy would look upon beggars outside the Vatican walls as a good look?
Whether God gets to Waipukurau is another thing.
An army may dress as it wishes, though to be seen as a credible army in colourful tights stretches the imagination.
NZ, and all Western countries for that matter are full subjects of international law but that didn't stop their elected authorities from murdering their citizens with a toxic injection falsely called a vaccine or indeed, commit other treasonous acts against their citizens so I guess thats an out for the Vatican.
So for convenience sake and when convenient in the matter of homosexual deviants the Catholic church has a false substitute - the Novus Ordo?
I can only imagine the reasons for Michelangelo's brilliant paintings in the Vatican, I guess there's many but giving glory to God? I dunno.
Perhaps even to usurp Da Vinci, put food on his table, a deal with the Pope?
DeleteGreg Rasmusen no, beggars anywhere are never a 'good look' for my God - everyone's God. And I agree with you on the toxic injection sponsored by Francis. It was not an 'out' for the Vatican; it incriminated the Vatican.
The Novus Ordo is the 'New Mass', not a church but an expression of Vatican II, Protestant and blasphemous. It has created two generations of adherents who don't know or understand Catholic doctrine - which, I agree, is very convenient for the homoheretics. One would almost think it was designed to be ...
If Michelangelo were the devout Catholic he's reputed to have been, he like all devout Catholics would have done everything for the glory of God. That's what we're here for.
ReplyDeleteVigano - top bloke.
ReplyDelete…Be Vigilant of Your Soul and Spirit Sir.You will be Face to Face with “The Lord”,even at an Unexpected Instant Matthew 12:30 Matthew 13:50
ReplyDeleteIf you read the st gallen mafia , there was a effort by free masons years ago to take down our church
Many of these seminarians were abused by mc carrick
Some of them are cardinals now
Just like the sex abuse was hidden . Much is hidden
We need to pray for a holy pope
A spiritual who will lead the flock back to Christ
I love Christ church
Some times humanity fails us
Jesus will preserve our church
We have suffered thru bad popes before
If we are called to suffer for a holy church so be it
ReplyDeleteit's already been the counterchurch since V2 at least
ReplyDeletethe modernist church of heresy and many pathways. its sanhedrin clergy embrace sin
There is a rule of thumb regarding the election of a Pope. That is, if the Bishops accept as Pope, the man who is proclaimed Pope, then he is to be regarded as Pope. This appears to apply no matter how he got there. The Cardinals appear to have the capacity to depose a Pope - for heresy e.g. But they have to meet in open Conclave to do so. Notably, Pope Francis did not call the Cardinals together, in the manner of free & open Conclave, after Feb. 2014. So, of course he had a free hand thereafter.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the notion 'catholic' is not defined by whichever branch of the Church one goes to. It refers to those who are faithful to that tripartite formula.: Gospel, Magisterial Doctrine and Sacred Tradition. It is futile to proclaim that one form or another is 'out'.
ReplyDeleteI admire Bishop Vigano. I pray for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis
DeleteDavid Ebrahim did you know that the Angelic Doctor St Thomas Aquinas tells us not to pray for the souls of apostates, schismatics and heretics?
Instead of praying for Francis I simply pray for the souls in Purgatory.
Julia du Fresne Julia, it's God's prerogative to damn anyone. I continue to pray that your heart of stone may be transformed into a heart of flesh. You will be judged by the same standards you judge others.
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DeleteDavid Ebrahim thank you, and God bless you. I believe it's a person's sinful houghts, deeds or omissions which may damn him/her and it's God alone Who judges those sins.
There's all the difference in the world - and for eternity -between judging others and judging their deeds.