Archbishop Viganò issues an Apologia in his defense

Editor’s Note: The Archbishop has written his own apologia pro sua vita, which is now available in English, through the linked image above.

What he says therein is more completely an exposition of his doctrinal and juridical position than in other documents.

Essentially, however, he has not modified or changed anything of what he has said in the past. He holds the Catholic position, which so many others, including myself hold as the only possible approach a Catholic can have to these subjects.

But he does take one step which he has not taken before.

He now asks his brother Bishops to hear his case and he formally accuses Pope Francis of being a usurper, heretic and schismatic.

But he continues to omit the necessary juridical specification of calling on a specific tribunal to hear this appeal.

Yes, he has appealed ostensibly to all the Bishops of the world. But juridically such an appeal means nothing unless he addresses a specific body, such as a provincial council or a general council.

If he ever realizes that in failing to do this he is making meaningless all he has said and is serving up all that his enemies need to condemn him, he will make a formal canonical appeal to the Bishops of the Province of Rome to convoke a Provincial Council, on the grounds mentioned in the Sutri Initiative. For that is the only body which can convene without Pope Francis’s permission and which can judge the accusation of usurpation of the Papacy.

Let’s pray for the Archbishop that he take that last but decisive step!

Update on Br. Bugnolo

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

As you may know, FromRome.Info has been my personal apostolate since January 2020, when I was providentially inspired to transform my old WordPress Blog into a daily news journal: though this website, many hundreds of thousands if not millions came to know something about me and my warnings about the utter fraud of the Pandemic, Covid-19, SarsCov-19 and the mRNA “vaccines”.

During these 4+ years I have warned my readers daily of the lies and dishonesty of media reports from around the world.

But as this fake Crisis has passed, more or less, from being one in which FromRome.Info was one of the few if only Catholic sources opposing it: there are now many voices and initiatives speaking the truth and seeking justice, even though it is only a tiny percentage of what should be done, considering how billions of humans were victimized during it all.

Not being a lawyer or M. D., I see my work done in these areas for the mean time, since there is no expertise I can bring to the progress toward justice further.

So it is my intention to return to my previous apostolic works, if I can.

I say, if I can, because as a Franciscan Brother who owns nothing, and who has exposed the corruption in the Church all too well, the only apostolic works I can engage in are those which do not require the permission of a local Bishop AND which I can find benefactors to help me accomplish.

Since September of last year, as I informed you, I have no longer been living in the Hermitage in Italy, where I resided for the previous two years. This is because the owner decided to terminate the lease and I could not find any place suitable for a religious brother to live. So I have been taking an extended visit with my relatives in the U.S.A., while attending to my spiritual and physical health, after 4 long years of battle with some needed rest and much prayer.

As the summer of 2024 begins, I discern that I have rested enough and that I should get back to the work the Lord has given me in the past. As you know, from posts here at FromRome.Info I have already attempted to raise funds for The Scholasticum and Ordo Militaris Catholicus’ Youth Camp and Formation Center, a Military Monastery.

So far funds raised for The Scholasticum amount to $250 in the last 6 months. And for the Military Monastery about $1300. The fund appeals for the Youth Camp in the USA have raised $0 and for the Youth Camp in Europe about 8500 Euros of the needed 120 thousand.

[Updated July 6, 2024 A. D.]

So you can easily see, from this brief summary, that I am not yet able to undertake any apostolate, for the simple reason that I can not find any support.

Since I have not been asking any of my readers to support me monthly, as I did during the last 4 years when I was in Italy, I write now to ask all those who hold me in good will and who appreciate my service to Christ, to consider helping me in one of these apostolic works, though the donation pages found in one of the four links cited above, since so much good can be done through all of them, or any one of them.

In the meantime, be assured of my prayers for each of you. FromRome.Info will remain in existence as a resource, and from now and then I will post other articles. But as my apostolate is not journalism, but helping others in person, I will be reducing further posts here at FromRome.Info.

If I cannot find any support for these good works, then I will go back to my private life as I have lived before I began FromRome.Info.

I will, however, still appear at OMC Radio TV for some of their programs.

CREDITS: The featured image is of Br. Bugnolo, as he reported from the Vatican on the occasion of the passing of Pope Benedict XVI, in January of 2023 A. D..

 

Vatican News quotes Viganò’s Tweet about Schism Trial, Parolin praises him for past work

Editor’s Note: Since the Vatican News Service is under the direction of the Secretary of State, it is indeed notable that Cardinal Parolin should publish this article, so as to get his own comments on record, as one who is trying to be fair to both sides in this dispute, Pope Francis and Archbishop Viganò.

Meanwhile, the Society of St. Pius X has made it clear (here) that they hold Viganò to be a sedevacantist for saying that Pope Francis is not pope because of a defect in his own intention in accepting the papacy.

This judgement against the Italian Archbishop by the Society’s report, however, is wrong, since such a position is not a form of sedevacantism: an ideology which claims there is no pope so as to have a Church without any principle of hierarchical or juridical authority.

Likewise, the Italian Archbishop is not a schismatic, because to claim a Pope has no authority due to his own heresy or a defect in his election, is not an act of schism, but a juridical complaint, which merits to be judged on its own grounds. The Vatican is attempting to parse his words, so that they can condemn him for saying the Pope has no authority, and ignore his assertion that there was a defect in Pope Francis’ being elected.

Crux Magazine lauds Berlusconi Conservatives who applaud Viganò trial

Editor’s Note: Does ex priest John Allen, founder of Crux Magazine, really expect us to believe that those whom he calls conservatives in Italy, are conservatives? And that no one in the Church agrees with the Archbishop’s opposition to the Scamdemic?

This is the cheekiest propaganda yet.

The effort to demonize all the positions held by Archbishop Viganò on account of one or another of his opinions seems to be the whole agenda of the trial moved against him at the Vatican.

Indeed, there are very few informed and faithful Catholics who could disagree with the statement of the Archbishop, that “Bergoglio is to the Church what other world leaders are to their nations: traitors, subversives, and final liquidators of traditional society”, as he is quoted to have said by the National Catholic Register, in their article of June 21, 2024 by Francis X. Rocca, who writes for EWTN but has in the past been published by notable Skull & Bones controlled outlets. Rocca’s personal work history and his association with EWTN explains why in that article he too joins on the bandwagon to see the Archbishop hung-out-to-dry.

But the zeal of Pope Francis against Viganò is unprecedented also in recent Church history. It took the Vatican 20 years to move against Archbishop Lefebvre, who in the meantime had illicitly ordained hundreds of priests, while the Italian Archbishop has scarcely ordained but a few men, according to leaked reports.

Maybe this zeal has something to do with the 2.4 Billion Euros which somehow found its way into the Vatican balance sheets since Pope Francis met with Bill Clinton and Alexis Soros last July?

I believe that the Globalists are very worried about who will succeed Pope Francis and that this summer trial issued against the most staunch anti-Globalist in the Sacred Hierarchy has everything to do with shaping the narrative to be used to control that outcome during the next Conclave.

Vatican Dicastery’s use of Satanic Ritual Rapist’s Art sparks media outrage in USA

Editor’s Note: The Vatican, occupied by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who was installed by Barack Obama, is set on its course to destroy any vestige of good name of the Catholic Church. Even the secularists in the Main Stream Media in the USA can no longer tolerate the gross, reckless and senseless continued use of the art by Father Rupnik by the Vatican Media, whose director was questioned publicly about this, during the recent Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta.

His outrageous insistence that the artwork will be used in the future, appears to result from the fact that the Vatican “Dicastery on Social Communications” has a member on its board who co-published books with the notorious priest.

This is another case, whereby, as I have said before, these uncanonical “dicasteries” are taking the exact position of what entities of a False Church or Anti-Church would take. It is gravely aberrant that the Catholic Hierarchy remain silent and not urge the Sutri Initiative. Even the “great” opponents of Pope Francis like Bishops Gracida, Strickland, Schneider and now Archbishop Vigano are silent and do nothing other than enter into public criticisms and diatribes without bringing a canonical petition to the proper tribunal.

ITALY: Parliament approves law on Differentiated Autonomy of Italian Regions

Editor’s Note: The Italian government has passed the law on differentiated autonomy, which will grant devolution over certain aspects of government from Parliament to the regional governments if they so request it. Within 2 years the government must define what are essential government services and restrict those to the competence of the national parliament. After that, local regions can begin to make decisions regarding a variety of minor organizational affairs, including how they raise and spend taxes.

Most importantly, however, the manner of election of the Prime Minister. Currently, the PM is elected by Parliament in Rome. With this new bill, the election will be by popular vote of the entire nation. The winner of the election will also be able to assign 55% of the parliamentarians to the national parliament. It is not clear yet whether this provision will need to be approved by a national popular referendum, as it touches upon the Constitutional provisions. However, many are concerned that it will lead to a de facto dictatorial state, since it will guarantee the elected PM a ruling majority in parliament. The law proposes this majority, since in a parliamentary form of government, the members of the cabinet are normally approved by the majority in one or both houses of parliament.

The both aspects of the new law were long time goals of the Lega party. It is expected that as a consequence of this law, that the ruling coalition will lose massive support in the poorer regions, who will be deprived financially of some tax revenues on an equal per capita basis. However, each region can now streamline some regulations to suit the businesses and cultural differences of their locale.

Here is another report about the law, published prior to its approval, Wednesday in parliament.

Archbishop Viganò digs his own grave, by extravagant statements

Commentary by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

On June 11, 2024, the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith”, an entity erected by no pope sent a letter to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò informing him of his pending trial in the “Dicastery” on the charge of schism. In response to reports that he has been so charged and would attend he has issued a public statement denying that he will attend or attempt to defend himself.

Though he has been repeatedly informed by private correspondence that he must take his appeal to a provincial council in the Ecclesiastical Province of Rome, just as the Sutri Initiative suggests and urges, Archbishop Viganò has, instead, chosen to issue a public response full of expressions which will only lead to his condemnation.

The core of the Archbishop’s error lies in attributing to the Church the errors, crimes and immorality of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his crew. On this basis, he denies the authority of the Dicastery, of Pope Francis, and of the Church in communion with him, to put him on trial.

Such statements will be viewed by all as schismatic, since semantically they express the very essence of the notion of schism.

The proper Catholic response, on the other hand, would be to accuse these persons before the proper tribunal (Provincial Council in the Roman Province). While the Sutri Initiative suggests such a recourse to challenge the validity of Pope Francis’ election in March of 2013, or the validity of his claim to be pope, on account of his patent heresies, such a recourse can also be made by an Archbishop who is incardinated at the Vatican when charged by agents of a Roman Pontiff who has any questionable hold on the Petrine Office, even one vitiated by heretical intentions.

I believe that once again, we are seeing play out in real time the destruction of the person and reputation of another outstanding cleric of the Roman Church, since, because he lacks the courage to bring a canonical complaint to the competent tribunal, he is attempting to win his case by public debate and diatribes: a thing which can never succeed, since the Church of Jesus Christ is a juridical entity with proper laws and procedures, and justice must be sought in accord with them.

Contrariwise, if the Archbishop changes his legal strategy immediately by publicly appealing to a provincial council against the actions of a dicastery which was erected not by Pope Benedict XVI but by another claiming the papal office during his lifetime, he will put the entire dispute squarely on the proper legal grounds and avoid a charge of schism. For no one appealing to the proper tribunal is a schismatic. He will also in the strongest possible juridical manner put in doubt the claim of Pope Francis to have the right to move against him.

In such a case, the Bishops of the Roman Province can decide to call or not call the Council: the charges against Pope Francis being sufficient to hold the Apostolic See impeded (see here fore more about this). If the Bishops were to refuse to convene, then the Archbishop could rightfully appeal to any provincial council in the world, since such a refusal would confirm the juridical doubt concerning the impeded see and a conspiracy to overthrow the Church. Furthermore, even if the provincial council in the Roman province determine against him, he could appeal to other provincial councils, since such decisions put in writing in a provincial council would demonstrate the unjust basis of Pope Francis’ claims to office. This would raise the controversy to the international level and require a general council to hear the case, as numerous provincial councils could rightfully demand such be convened.

This is the way to fight as a Catholic in the footsteps of great saints such as St. Athanasius of Alexandria. Let us pray that the Archbishop wake up fast, before he is eaten up by the crocodile on the Tiber.

VATICAN “Dicastery” charges Archbishop Viganò with Schism

Commentary and Canonical Critique by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

Traduction française

Editor’s Note: You can read the news from the source, at the Archbishop’s Italian Website, which now has an official English translation of the accusation and surrounding circumstances.

As I have said before, since this Dicastery was never erected by a man holding the Petrine Munus, the entire procedure against the Archbishop is null and void de jure. However, since he nominally recognizes the papal conclave of 2013 as being valid and as Pope Benedict XVI validly resigning, he is caught in the same juridical problem of all Pope Francis’ opponents, of putting himself, as it were, in the mouth of the crocodile on his own accord.

In addition, the Archbishop is being accused of violating a Canon, 1364, which does not exist, since it was published by Pope Francis before his juridically valid election, that is, during his antipapacy from March 13, 2013, to January 29, 2023.

Finally, it is indeed revealing, that the only person yet to be put on trial for heresy or schism by this new fake Dicastery is one of the most Catholic Archbishops of all the Roman Rite.

If the Archbishop publicizes the trial step by step, he will surely win over the entire Catholic world, as the proceedings of the trial will put on show the entire rotten ideological basis upon which the Bergoglian revolution is being perpetrated.

And if he defends himself, he will be able to argue that the conclave of 2013 was canonically invalid, that pope Francis was not therein validly elected. However, if he argues that Benedict XVI validly renounced the papacy, that it would seem that he is actually playing a game with the Globalists to confirm that the election of Pope Francis was valid and could only be considered invalid by mean-spirited presumptuous individuals like himself, since to accuse Bergoglio of not having the good will to be pope, while reasonable, has no basis in canon law for a determination by anyone but a future pope, and would thus expose him to an irrefutable counter-argument of making a false accusation, since the internal forum cannot be judged except by a  superior according to the principle de internis praetor non iudicat.

So while it seems that the anti-Church is moving against the Catholic Archbishop, the intersection of this other possibility makes is more likely that he has joined a public dispute with Pope Francis that is designed to make the latter win and the former lose, so as to undermine the true Catholic position expressed in the Sutri Initiative.

However, if someone were to convince the Archbishop to appeal immediately to a Provincial Council he could save himself and the Church by attacking all his problems at the core, by addressing the invalidity of a resignation of petrine ministry to effect a papal abdication. If he took that position he would indeed then force Pope Francis to recognize publicly his juridically valid election on Jan. 30, 2023 or to admit publicly that he was never the Roman Pontiff.

Let’s see if the Archbishop decides to play a game he can only lose, or fight on the field of the true battle, where he can only win. For true Catholic militancy belongs to the latter, and fake Masonic opposition belongs to the former.

Finally, I find it an indeed strikingly revealing, that the Archbishop entitles his response to the juridical accusation, with the words of Our Lord, recorded in the Gospel of Saint Mathew, chapter 7, verse 15, from the Vulgate: “Attendite a falsis prophetis”, “Beware of false prophets” in the plural. Because this juridical accusation and the Archbishop’s respond are excellent examples of the kind of narrative psyops the Globalists use to divide and conquer, when they put on the chess board of history two public opponents lauded by all controlled media sources, both of whom are wrong, because they accept the Globalist Big Lies as the truth. Thus, no matter which appears to win, the Big Lie is the winner, because the supporters of both prefer the football game-like ruckus and battle more than the truth.

Here the big lie is that Pope Benedict XVI abdicated, when the patent obvious truth is that he never actually renounced nor intended to renounce the Papal Dignity, and thus never renounced by word or intent the petrine munus. Thus, Pope Francis was not validly elected in 2013, and his changes in the Roman Curia in 2022 and penal code of the Church, therefore, are uncanonical and without force. Consequently, the Archbishop can not only NOT be charged, the “Dicastery” charging him has no more authority than a dry fig.

VATICAN: Rabid Anti-Tridentine Liturgist unmasks himself as Cultural Marxist: Tradition = service to change

Editor’s Note: If you want to understand what it means to hate Sacred Tradition with an ideological hatred which is from Hell, just read the interview above. — In Catholic Teaching, tradition means the handing down of the self-same teaching and practice which has its origin in Christ and the Apostles, in accord with the teaching of Saint Paul the Apostle in 2 Thessalonians 2:15,

And thus, brothers, stand fast; and keep the traditions which you have learned,
whether by sermon, or by an epistle of ours.

My translation of the text in the Latin Vulgate

Discerning a Vocation to the Catholic Military Order: Ordo Militaris Catholicus

Have you ever been inspired by the heroic valor of Catholic soldiers of old, who risked everything to protect, rescue and liberate Catholics who were being persecuted? — In today’s program at OMC Radio TV, AJ talks with Br. Bugnolo about discerning a vocation to the Ordo Militaris Catholics: in what it consists and what does it mean, and how every Catholic no matter what his station in life, work, or role, can participate, but especially those young men graduating from Highschool who would like to follow in the footsteps of the 12 patron Saints of that Order, who participated in the Crusades.

Watch above at Ordo Militaris Radio TV, by clicking that image, or through the Rumble window, here below:

VATICAN IOR reports increased assets of 2.4 Billion Euro, up 84% since 2022

Editor’s Note: According to Wikipedia — which cites the official IOR report for 2022 — the Vatican’s Institute for Religious Works (IOR), popularly — but erroneously — called the Vatican Bank, had assets of 2.93 Billion Euro in 2022. But this year’s report for 2023, the assets are reported as 5.4 Billion Euro, up a stunning 2.47 Billion Euro or 84% in one year!

The 2023 report, however, claims only a 4% increase in managed assets of “cilents”.

Clearly, there is either some major discrepancy, or Pope Francis is being paid enormous sums of money from some source. Let’s see if any news source follows this story, reported for the first time here at FromRome.info.