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Archbishop Viganò on Obedience & Fidelity to Christ’s Truth: A Reply to Vicente Montesinos

Editor’s note: Vicente Montesinos, the director and founder of the Spanish-language Catholic web portal Adoration and Liberation, wrote an open letter to His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, published here, at the website of our friend, colleague, and brother in Christ, Marco Tosatti. Today, the good archbishop offers once again his incisive commentary by way…

Archbishop Viganò on Fratelli Tutti, Abortion Politics, and Amy Coney Barrett

Editor’s Note: The following exchange comes from an interview between John-Henry Westen of LifeSiteNews and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. In the interest of spreading his message further, His Excellency has also provided us with a copy of the text for publication.  Please see the original interview with additional commentary at LifeSiteNews.  What is your opinon…

Italian Philosopher: What if Francis Were the Last Pope of the Roman Catholic Tradition, & a Different Christianity Were Being Born?

Salvatore Natoli is an Italian philosopher, academic, and author of some renown. Today, we’ve learned that he has some noteworthy opinions on the pope’s new encyclical. First, some background: Natoli, born in 1942, is a product of Catholic higher education and a self-described nonbeliever (but perhaps I repeat myself). He graduated from the Catholic University…

Does Pope Francis Think the Death Penalty is Intrinsically Evil?

Since the release of Fratelli Tutti a few days ago, the debate over the Church’s re-imagined position on the death penalty — covered in some depth in the new encyclical — has resumed with gusto. And the questions that surround this “development” — particularly whether it in fact represents a contradiction — have far reaching…

Why the Death Penalty Teaching Change Is a Perfect Doctrinal Trojan Horse

I’ve already written at length about the longstanding Catholic teaching about the death penalty and why Pope Francis is wrong in his attempts to change it. I won’t, therefore, rehash those arguments here. For the purposes of this particular debate, what matters most is for Catholics to understand that the authority for civil powers to…

Pope’s New Encyclical Follows Spirit of Laudato Si: It Recycles The Same Old Themes

We’ve entered one of those moments again where there’s a a flurry of activity in the Church, and hardly enough time to analyze it in depth. To top it off, I’m feeling like I’m coming down with something and running on far too little sleep, so rather than trying to coax my brain into something…

Cardinal Müller: U.S. Election Will Determine Future of Democracy & Human Rights for Decades

In recent days, we’ve seen multiple pieces of political commentary from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who has stated that, in his view, President Trump has a “decisive” mission “in the epochal confrontation that has been unfolding in recent months.” Viganò in fact went so far as to wax apocalyptic when he said: If Trump loses…

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