Is Archbishop Viganò’s Rejection of the Second Vatican Council Promoting Schism?

National Catholic Register, 28 August 2020

In his latest ‘testimony,’ the former nuncio holds a position contrary to the Catholic faith on the authority of ecumenical councils.

Two years after his incendiary whistleblowing about Theodore McCarrick, where does Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò stand?

That original “testimony” was — as I characterized it in 2018 — “reckless” and “unfair” in the breadth of those it accused, its rather uneven appeal to facts, and its foolish call for the Holy Father to resign. Yet it did offer some specific claims about how the McCarrick allegations were handled under Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, and there was enough semblance of truth in what Archbishop Viganò wrote that it prompted the Vatican to commission a comprehensive review and report on McCarrick’s career.

That report, reportedly the size of a small book, is still infamously pending.

Archbishop Viganò’s most clear violation of his oaths of office — the breaking of the pontifical secret — appears a less grave offense today than two years ago. Last December, Pope Francis abolished the pontifical secret in sexual-abuse cases. The papal move did not exactly address the circumstances of Archbishop Viganò’s disclosures, but in retrospect, it alters how they are perceived.

But in the summer of 2020, Archbishop Viganò has moved on quite a bit from McCarrick.

He began the year by entering a controversy, of which he had no part, to denounce Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI, for “abusive and systematic control” of the pope emeritus, extending back to the time when Benedict was serving as pope.

It was a sign of the things to come, interventions ever more extravagant and more frequent.

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