Editor's Note: On July 4, 2024, the Congress of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith met to conclude the extrajudicial penal process against Carlo Maria Viganò, titular Archbishop of ...

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former papal ambassador to the United States who became an ultra-conservative critic of Pope Francis, has been excommunicated for schism. The Vatican said ...

The Vatican has officially excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith announced Friday. Archbishop Viganò was found guilty of the canonical crime ...

VATICAN CITY, July 5 (Reuters) - Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a fierce ultra-conservative critic of Pope Francis, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican's ...

ROME — The Vatican on Friday excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, exacting a severe punishment on the most vociferous internal critic of Pope Francis for refusing to recognize the ...

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal nuncio to the United States, is one of those to whom much has been entrusted. Over the course of his career, Viganò has lived out a deep love for ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — An outspoken critic of Pope Francis, the Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, said that while Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s public opposition of ...

Pope Francis accepted Archbishop Vigano’s resignation the following year, shortly after the archbishop submitted it at the statutory age of 75. The former diplomat went into retirement and ...

This was the conclusion of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in the case of Archbishop Viganò—that it was merely confirming the reality that Archbishop Viganò had ...

At the same time, some U.S. bishops came out in support of Archbishop Vigano. Around the time the letter was published, Archbishop Viganò went into hiding, moving to an undisclosed location that ...