Pope Francis Should Be Arrested Over 'Perverted' Book, Archbishop Says
Jan 16, 2024 at 1:31 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/archbishop-calls-arrest-pope-cardinal-over-book-1861151

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An archbishop has launched an attack against Pope Francis over the controversy surrounding a book written by a cardinal in 1998.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, an Italian clergyman who has frequently found himself at odds with Pope Francis over the direction of the Catholic church, has taken to social media to blast a resurfaced book written 25 years ago by another cleric. The archbishop views the work as "pornographic" and a "perversion," and has now demanded the arrest of both the writer, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, and the Pope.
Newsweek has reached out to the Vatican by email seeking comment.
The archbishop previously served as a Vatican ambassador to the U.S. for five years; he was appointed as Apostolic Nuncio in 2011 and remained in post until his retirement in 2016. He has become an increasingly outspoken critic of the Pope and the church as it navigates the modern age and grapples with issues such as sɛҳuąƖity, the COVID-19 pandemic, and historic sɛҳuąƖ abuse scandals. His warnings of a globalist conspiracy saw him win the approving attention of then-President Donald Trump in 2020, which elevated his status further.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has called for the arrest of the Pope and a cardinal over a book on sɛҳuąƖity written by the latter. The archbishop is pictured here leading a service at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, Illinois, in November 2014. Charles Rex Arbogast-Pool/Getty Images
The archbishop's campaign has escalated after he called for the arrest of the head of the Catholic church.

What Is the Controversy Over?
Archbishop Viganò was responding to a recently resurfaced book from 1998 called Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality, written by the then-priest Fernández. The book reportedly includes graphic descriptions of male and female orgasms in addition to discussing how sɛҳuąƖ partners could find God in climax. Newsweek has not accessed a copy of the book.
The clergyman suggested God could "make himself present when two human beings love each other and reach orgasm; and that orgasm, lived in the presence of God, can also be a sublime act of the presence of God," the Catholic Herald magazine wrote in a commentary, quoting Fernández's book.
The book resurfaced after the now-Cardinal Fernández, with the Pope's approval, allowed pastors to give non-liturgical blessings to couples in "irregular situations," such as gαy couples or cohabiting unmarried partners.
On January 8, Viganò took to social media site X (formerly Twitter) and—referring to the Pope as "the Argentinean" and Fernandez as "Tucho"—wrote: "The blasphemous sewer regurgitations of Tucho's repulsive pamphlet show such a level of perversion and alienation to the Faith as to demand the expulsion manu militari of the Argentinean and his accomplices. The Swiss Guards have sworn to defend the See of Peter, not the one who is systematically demolishing it. Let them therefore be faithful to their oath and arrest these heretical perverts!"


On January 8, the Cardinal gave an interview to Catholic website Crux and said he had been young when he wrote the book, adding: "I certainly would not write [it] now."
He said: "Long after that book, I wrote much more serious ones like, The Healing Force of Mysticism... [and I] never allowed it to be reprinted." He said he tried to help couples "better understand the spiritual meaning of their relationships," but added that he had later tried to quash the book amid fears it "could be misinterpreted."
A few days later, Archbishop Viganò again took to X to share a link to his full statement on the issue, by directing readers to a Catholic website called Exsurge Domine.
Repeatedly calling the Pope "Bergoglio"—referencing the pontiff's birth name of Jorge Mario Bergoglio—he wrote: "Look at... Bergoglio's audiences with transsɛҳuąƖs, well-known ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs, and cohabiting lovers: can anyone seriously believe that there is no coherence in this cesspool of vices and perversions with what Tucho wrote in 1998?"
The Vatican has not responded to the archbishop's criticisms over the years and has not addressed his calls for the Pope and the Cardinal to be arrested.

Yes, Bergoglio should be arrested. He should have been arrested in 2013 when he accepted the results of an unlawfully-held papal Conclave. The man is not and has never been a legitimate Pope. 

Why? Because the Conclave was called before the Apostolic See was "lawfully vacant." The Apostolic See becomes "lawfully vacant" only upon "the death of the Pope." Pope Benedict XVI was not dead in 2013. Therefore, the Conclave was illegal and the results of the Conclave are "null and void." 

If interested (I know...very few will be), you can read the details at www.antipope.com.

No, the reason he is not a pope is because he is not a member of the Catholic Church as are all those who are pertinacious heretics and thus do not profess the Catholic Faith. Incidentally, the arch heretic, Ratzinger, wasn’t a pope either as he too was a pertinacious heretic and did not profess the True Faith.

Let me make it easy. If you were to pertinaciously doubt or deny the dogma of the Holy Trinity, you would, by that fact alone, forfeit your membership to the Catholic Church. Period.

Agreed that Bergoglio is a pertinacious heretic as well as an unlawful usurper.

Agreed that Bergoglio is a pertinacious heretic as well as a unlawful usurper.

I appreciate that. I just don’t understand why you hold Ratzinger as a true pope when his doctrinal heresies may be even more numerous than Bergoglio’s?

I was interested. 

From what I could gather, just skimming through it, yes, a Pope may resign, but the resigned Pope must die before another one would be elected.  That means, if I'm following the reasoning correctly, that the resignation of a Pope would trigger a period, possibly an extended one, of sede vacante.  Am I right?

Correct. The key is that the resignation of the Roman Pontiff is the resignation from the See of Rome (the diocese of Rome). Upon the resignation of the Roman Pontiff, the See of Rome becomes "lawfully vacant" since he is the only member of that See.

But the Apostolic See is unique. It is canonically-defined as a multi-member entity (1917 Canon 7;1983 Canon 361) and it is not "lawfully vacant" until "the death of the Pope." That is why a "resignation of the Roman Pontiff" cannot, by itself, trigger a new papal election.

And this canonical requirement has been in place since, at least, Pius X. It is not a post VII novelty.

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No, you are not right. This is a fairy tale dreamed up by Angelus, whereby he thinks it is in the law of the Church that when a pope resigns a valid conclave cannot take place until the former pope has died. Pure nonsense.

We have discussed this with him many times to no avail. It is even contrary to both history and common sense. Why would the Church have to remain without a head for years if a pope resigns? And popes have resigned in the past, and the Church always immediately proceeded to elect a new one.

As I explained above, the Church continues to run under the authority of the Apostolic See, even after a Pope resigns. However, the Curial heads exercise limited powers in that case. They cannot do certain things reserved to the Roman Pontiff, while he is still alive. Then, after the Roman Pontiff dies, the Curial heads resign and a Conclave is called to elect a new Roman Pontiff.

All of this can be read in Canon Law and the special law governing papal elections. There is no need to take my word for it. Just look at the law.

The pope is an untouchable. An imposter. The world likes that.  That is why he is still there. Lawlessness, Godlessness that is the ways of the world.

The reason is that I don't believe that Joseph Ratzinger professed "heresy" as it is defined in Canon 1325.  I don't think he "denied or doubted something to be believed from the truth of divine and Catholic faith." We can move it to another thread, if you really want to discuss it.

I think right now we need to be united against Bergoglio, the "man of sin." I'm glad we are on the same page on that.

Dimond Brothers have made a 60-90 minute video regarding all the heresies of Ratzinger.  Father Kramer, for example, uses Bergoglio's rejection of the dogma (from Florence) that the Old Covenant had been abrogated as evidence for manifest heresy ... except that Ratzinger and Wojtyla both also denied the same dogma (I provided the evidence) ... in addition to many others.