Finding Vigano by Robert Moynihan

Author:Robert Moynihan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TAN Books

In this paragraph, we enter fully into the “inside baseball” of the Catholic Church in the United States. We are introduced to (44) Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, and (45) Cardinal Roger Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles.

We follow Viganò to Texas, to a conference on Bioethics in Dallas, and we find that Cardinal McCarrick has traveled to Texas as well, but to another city, El Paso, to attend the installation of the new bishop there, Seitz. Because Viganò cannot be in two places, he sends his aide, Lantheaume, to El Paso, and he attends the conference in Dallas. When Lantheaume meets up with Viganò, he tells him that he saw McCarrick in El Paso and that McCarrick had “taken him aside” and insisted to him that the men named bishops in the United States needed to be “non-ideologized” and “not right-wing” but “shepherds.” Viganò tells us he had his “Eureka!” moment—he tells us, “I was astounded!” What was he astounded by?

By the fact that he seems to have finally understood that it was McCarrick who was guiding the agenda of Pope Francis in choosing bishops for the Church! “It was therefore clear that the words of reproach that Pope Francis had addressed to me on June 21, 2013 had been put into his mouth the day before by Cardinal McCarrick,” Viganò writes. “Also the Pope’s mention ‘not like the Archbishop of Philadelphia’ could be traced to McCarrick, because there had been a strong disagreement between the two of them about the admission to Communion of pro-abortion politicians.”

In other words, Viganò has connected, in his own mind, the policy of the Francis pontificate with the careful maneuvering of the very same McCarrick, who, with a phrase here, a suggestion there, and occasionally a donation for a stalled initiative (anything to help forward the work of the Church—and his agenda) has managed to exercise enormous influence over Pope Francis himself!

The story is even more contorted and paradoxical: Viganò has come to conclude that this very McCarrick, the man Viganò had years before written a report about suggesting that he be removed from the cardinalate, had not only never been removed but had helped to elect Pope Francis and had now come to guide the thinking of the new pope on which men to choose as the new bishops in the United States, even though this was precisely the task of Viganò himself!

In short, Viganò has come to believe that not only is McCarrick not being restrained or punished in any way by Francis, he is in fact getting into the good graces of Francis in such an intimate way, if he was not already firmly ensconced there, that he is removing from Viganò’s hands the very work that had been entrusted to him in America by Pope Benedict: to choose the best young American Catholic priests to become the new bishops. A tangled web indeed.

Paragraph 50. Not happy with the trap he had set for me on June 23,

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