Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who formerly served as the apostolic nuncio to the United States, posted a statement highly critical of Pope Francis on Wednesday. Viganò accused the pope of supporting globalist interests in a “Messaggio del Santo Padre” (message from the Holy Father) issued on Wednesday.
Viganò is widely known in Catholic hierarchy for a 2018 letter in which he accused Pope Francis and other Catholic leaders of covering up sexual abuse allegations against American bishop Theodore McCarrick, who served as the archbishop of Washington. McCarrick was removed from ministry work, and ultimately laicized in 2019.
On Wednesday, Pope Francis offered his “prayerful good wishes for the deliberations of the Forum.”
“It is my hope that your discussions will take into account the urgent need to advance social cohesion, fraternity, and reconciliation among groups, communities, and states, in order to address the challenges before us,” Pope Francis said. “It is my hope … that the participants in this year’s Forum will be mindful of the moral responsibility that each of us has in the fight against poverty, the attainment of an integral development for all our brothers and sisters, and the quest for a peaceful coexistence among peoples.”
The pope had some positive things to say about globalization — as long as it’s done in a “moral” way.
“The process of globalization, which has by now clearly demonstrated the interdependence of the world’s nations and peoples, thus has a fundamentally moral dimension, which must make itself felt in the economic, cultural, political and religious discussions that aim to shape the future of the international community,” Francis declared.
Viganò wrote, “In Davos the masters and servants of the globalist elite gather: characters who openly declare that they want to reduce the world’s population through wars, famines and organized pestilence; characters who use the complicity of our rulers, international institutions, and especially high finance and media, which are totally in their hands.”
Viganò left little doubt as to how he felt about the pope cozying up to the Davos elites. In his statement, he referred to Francis by his given surname, Bergoglio.
“How would Our Lord have spoken to the Sanhedrin of criminal subversives at the World Economic Forum?” Viganò wondered. “What would all the Popes from Saint Peter to Pius XII have said to the participants of the Davos Forum? Not what Bergoglio said, surely. And this proves once again that the Argentine Jesuit is a servant of the globalist elite: whether he does it out of self-interest or due to blackmail matters little. Bergoglio explicitly supports the globalist coup and actively cooperates in the establishment of the New World Order.”
In Viganò’s mind, the pope’s actions are nothing less than the fulfillment of prophecy.
“What more is needed to understand that the words of Leo XIII have come true? That the prophecy of Our Lady at La Salette is being fulfilled before our eyes?”
The last quote of the post is especially ominous: “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.”
Whether Francis is preparing the way for the Antichrist is purely a matter of speculation, of course, but Viganò makes some good points about this pope’s apparent leftist agenda. Francis has issued encyclicals on climate change and has claimed we are turning the Earth into “rubble, deserts and refuse.” In December, he approved Catholic blessings for same-sex couples, although he stopped short when it came to gay “marriage.” During Covid, Francis blasted critics of lock-downs as “selfish.”
Fortunately, Catholics are not monolithic, and many, like Viganò, are resisting Pope Francis’ radical direction for the church.
