The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has summoned Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò so that "he can take note of the accusations and evidence regarding the crime of schism of which he is accused".
This is an extrajudicial criminal trial. The former Nuncio to the USA, who has criticized Pope Francis several times, going so far as to ask for his resignation and question his legitimacy, for his part comments: "I consider the accusations against me an honor." And again, «no Catholic worthy of this name can be in communion with this “Bergoglian church” because it acts in evident discontinuity and rupture with all the Popes of history and with the Church of Christ», underlines Viganò, who invites us to pray for "those who are persecuted because of their faith".
For the Vatican, Secretary of State Pietro Parolin replies: «Monsignor Viganò has adopted some attitudes to which he must respond. It is normal that the Doctrine of the Faith has taken the situation into its own hands and is carrying out the investigations that are necessary to delve deeper into this situation. It also gave him the opportunity to defend himself."
On a personal level, Parolin adds: «I am very sorry, I have always appreciated him as a great worker, very faithful to the Holy See, in a certain sense also an example, when he was Apostolic Nuncio he worked extremely well, I don't know what happened. I know."
(Unioneonline)
