A former high-ranking Catholic Church official-turned-whistleblower is gaining a popular following, appearing on mainstream Italian television earlier this month. In a Canale Italia interview with Dr. Armando Manocchia, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò warned the world, “We are facing a global coup that involves both civil society and the Church.”
During the 30-minute discussion, this former apostolic nuncio to the United States spoke of Masonic infiltration of the Catholic Church and governments worldwide by organizations such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its lesser-known ecclesiastical counterpart, the St. Gallen Mafia.
“Both are infiltrated and controlled by characters who use their power and the authority that derives from it, not for the purposes of the institutions they govern, but in order to destroy them,” the prelate charged. “This crisis of authority must be denounced, because the action of those who have reached the highest levels of leadership both of nations and of the Church is a subversive and criminal act.”
The highest level of leadership in the Church is the papacy, and Viganò left no room for doubt regarding his infiltration charge. He questioned Pope Francis’ legitimate claim to the Throne of Peter, blaming the St. Gallen Mafia for manipulating both the resignation of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and the irregular 2013 conclave that elevated then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio to the papal throne.
The charges fit with claims he referenced from theological pundits as well as admissions of at least one St. Gallen adherent, the late Cardinal Godfried Danneels. It was he who originally dubbed the Gallen group as a “mafia” in 2015 during an interview related to the publication of his biography.
Danneels bragged of the secretive cabal, named for a town in Switzerland where adherents regularly met, and documented flatteringly in Austen Ivereigh’s 2014 biography of Pope Francis, The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope. R. Cort Kirkwood describes the St. Gallen Mafia for The New American as a powerful faction “of pro-homosexual clerics” recruited by communists to infiltrate and erode the church. Danneels admitted that they wanted Bergoglio to lead a “drastic reform of the Church,” such as support of same-sex marriage, abortion, pornographic sex education in schools, and coverup of clerical sexual abuse, as documented by the National Catholic Register.
Viganò noted that multiple legitimate charges to Francis’ election “have never been denied by the Holy See” and that “[s]ooner or later the truth will emerge and the very serious damage done to the Church will have to be denounced and repaired.”
In the meantime, he said Francis leads the subversive “deep church” in a “murderous operation” to destroy the Catholic Church through novelties introduced in the 1960s during the Second Vatican Council. He described that event as a progressivist “revolution” and praised the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as one of the only prelates who denounced it. (Soon after the close of Vatican Council II, Lefebvre founded the priestly Society of Saint Pius X to preserve tradition, a move Viganò said “created the premises for a return of the Church to the doctrine and Holy Mass of all time.”) In contrast, Viganò observed that a “relentless hatred for Tradition” is what “motivates every action of the Bergoglian Church.”
Manocchia suggested that this explains why “Pope Francis has praised multiculturalism, ecologism, and immigration, received Soros and Bill Gates at the Vatican, and played the role of the promoter of experimental gene serums.” He related such unconventional behavior to Francis’ “formation as a Jesuit,” which is the leftist religious congregation Bergoglio joined in 1958 to study for the priesthood. Vigano answered, “If we were to limit ourselves to hypothesizing this correlation, we would show at least naiveté and carelessness.”
This is not the first time Viganò has broadcast warnings of a “global coup d’etat” that is attempting to implement the WEF’s Great Reset. He spoke to Manocchia of enduring persecution even from conservatives and “those whom I would have considered as allies” for his outspoken revelations about this and related issues such as “the pandemic farce” and “the war provocation” in Ukraine.
Indeed, Archbishop Viganò is no stranger to controversy. He garnered international recognition — and in some circles, infamy — during the 2012 Vati-leaks scandal involving corruption in the Vatican Bank. Leaked documents revealed that during his tenure as secretary-general of the city-state, Viganò had tried to reverse dishonest financial practices but was removed from office after exposing evidence of them to then-Pope Benedict XVI. In 2018 he called for Pope Francis to resign over clerical sexual abuse, homosexuality, and coverup by officials in the highest echelons of the Catholic Church.
He has publicly rebuked Catholic leaders for promoting Covid-19 vaccines, which he says are being used to “subjugate the peoples of the world and exterminate citizens or make them chronically ill.” He also accuses insiders of staging the war in Ukraine as part of their plans to “establish the tyranny of the new world order.” He told Manocchia that Zelensky is falsely portrayed as “an innocent victim of Putin’s expansionist aims.”
In answer to revolutionary subversion, Vigano pointed out that all Christians have a patriotic duty to oppose the Great Reset, to defend national sovereignty, religion, and morals, and to protect “life and the traditional family.” Toward this end he called for the formation of an “Anti-Globalist Alliance … to present a common front against the globalist Leviathan.”
He offered the rallying cry that insiders “are subservient to the eternal Loser, and that Divine Providence could decide to spare” those who “understand that the present evils are the consequences of sins … of all nations; a punishment for having denied our Faith … for having wrested from Christ His crown as universal King.”
“The Lord will help us with His Grace, but He asks us to do our part,” Viganò cautioned. “If we fight with Christ, with Christ we will celebrate victory. If we continue not to take sides or worse we side with Satan, with Satan we will have fallen into the abyss.”
The English translation by Jim Hoft of Viganò’s full interview is available on Scribd.
