A Russian "Sleeper" Catholic Ex-Archbishop Slithers Out Of His Hole--
Ex-Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigáno, formerly Vatican Ambassador to the US has finally "self-outed" as a Russian intelligence asset in a raving and psychotic rant, covered in this Catholic magazine, "Where Peter Is."
https://wherepeteris.com/has-vigano-changed/
Vigáno has been covered extensively by "The Rosen Report" as the QAnon-aligned charismatic Catholic fascist who has been a Trump devotee, a schismatic enemy of Pope Francis, and the leading instigator of the most radical right-wing American bishops in declaring "total war" against President Biden. Our blog has a full archive of background on this guy, which is easily accessible if you type Vigáno into the search bar at the top of the homepage.
He has fully endorsed Putin's genocidal attack on Ukraine (because he is "pro-life" after all), and called upon Catholics everywhere to join with "the Third Rome" and Russia (yes, he used that term) in a fight to defend Christianity from "the globalist techno-health transhuman monster.”
Additionally he has been a leading spokesman for opposing covid vaccines as well as the entirety of policies coming from President Biden, and played a role in furthering the mindless insanity of the truckers' convoys. This is a very bad actor, who is working with the most anti-semitic and potentially violent dregs of the Catholic right-wing, who I've also identified as a potential serious security threat to both the pope and the president due to his violent rhetoric.
He is one of the right wing extremist religious leaders who have openly embraced both the Russian and American theocratic authoritarianism of Trump and Putin. Vigáno follows in the tradition of those fascist-leaning European churches and religious leaders who embraced both the Hitler and Mussolini regimes, as opposed to those who were part of "the Resistance."
He is ambitious, and wants to stoke the religious right's violent hatred of President Biden to make himself a modern version of the pro-fascist anti-semitic radio priest Father Charles Coughlin. Coughlin was an open Hitler supporter who was eventually driven off the air by our patriotic business leadership after the start of World War II.
He is not simply a lone actor. He leads a conspiracy on behalf of a long-active institutionalized evil, which is today's continuation of those networks in the church known as "the Rat Line", who protected and aided the escape of Hitler's SS War criminals after the war. He is of the stripe of Catholic charismatic which helped install Pinochet in Chile, along with other violently anti-democratic military juntas of Latin America. He is part of the movement in the church which tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II a second time at the Fatima shrine in Portugal in 1983.
He is far more that just a generic "religious nut." Take note, this is serious business, and this so-called "priest" is now working on behalf of the mad dictator Vladimir Putin, who has his nuclear arsenal pointed at us and our allies in Europe.
I pray for the health of President Biden and Pope Francis, and their continued persistence in fighting this evil. I pray that Pope Francis has the wisdom to immediately defrock and excommunicate this dangerous figure, and that our Justice Department does some timely counterintelligence to investigate his ties to the Putin's FSB, Russian Patriarch Kiril, and the Russian fascist leader Aleksandr Dugin, Russia's emissary to the QAnon disinformation group which is actively recruiting potential terrorists.
I pray also for America's Catholics who are targeted by this fascist's arguments through sympathetic right-wing media to spit him out, as this unholy lapsed and destructive creature truly merits.