Perhaps this individual has not read St. Augustine and doesn't see the analogy.  I mentioned the same concerns to a family priest who explained similarly to how you did so I chalk it up to my own personal ignorance rather than shady dealings on the part of the archbishop.  But I'm still cautious because I learned my lesson being one of the "early adopters" of Pfeifferism.  I won't make that mistake again.

I get that not everyone is acquainted with all of what St. Augustine wrote.  Problem is that I've explained it to this poster multiple time already, including once with relevant citations.  But even if someone doesn't know, there's a such a thing as making an allowance, prior to condemning someone, for not having all the facts.

Shouldn't he be telling people things more along the lines of, "You people of the world are all on the road to tell and you will be tormented forever after your death if you don't repent of your sins and embrace the Catholic religion as it was taught and practiced before the 1960s"? And then tell people what those teachings are in particular?

Instead of commenting on the words of a TV news anchor, American politicians, people in Davos, environmentalism, and similar things. People need the gospel, not politics.

Re-read my post about prudence.  Depends on what you're trying to accomplish and how effective your words might be.  I'm not required to walk around all day telling everyone I meet that they're "on the road to hell and will be tormented forever."  They'd honestly just think I was insane if I tried it, and some of this nonsense verges upon insanity.  How many people do you tell that to each day?  Probably 0 on average.

Maybe you could tell some of your SV priest buddies to stop telling non-Catholics and infidels that they can be saved.

How do you tell people they are headed to a place either A) they don't believe in or B) since they aren't "Hitler" and didn't kill anyone they would never go to.

Right, that's where Prudence comes into play.  I could go around all day telling everyone I meet on the street who isn't a Catholic that they're going to hell, but they would probably just dismiss me as some insane kook, like the guys who stand on the street corner ...

+Vigano's writings are indeed a bit too heavy on War Room theology. … blah, blah, blah…

How precisely does one get to Heaven by hiding in a closet and failing to oppose the evils that confront us?

Re-read my post about prudence.  Depends on what you're trying to accomplish and how effective your words might be.  I'm not required to walk around all day telling everyone I meet that they're "on the road to hell and will be tormented forever."  They'd honestly just think I was insane if I tried it, and some of this nonsense verges upon insanity.  How many people do you tell that to each day?  Probably 0 on average.

Maybe you could tell some of your SV priest buddies to stop telling non-Catholics and infidels that they can be saved.

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Well, you're not a Catholic bishop and neither am I, so that argument isn't really relevant. But if you suppose that a Catholic bishop is obliged to tell people what they need to hear to save their souls, namely to preach the gospel of Christ (and Christ warns people about hell constantly in the gospels, by the way), then yes, that is his duty. Yes, people will dismiss him as crazy, there will always be people who reject the preaching of the gospel as crazy. That doesn't mean the Church must stop preaching it. And a bishop's main job is to preach the gospel.

Furthermore, your idea that people would dismiss him as crazy doesn't seem very plausible to me. Given his position as a putative member of the Catholic hierarchy (whether he is or not is a question I don't want to get into now), people who consider themselves to be Catholic would be likely to listen to him as a leader of their religion. These are the people who need to be reached most of all, and who are the most likely to be open to receiving the truth.

In any case, I don't see how it saves anyone's soul to talk about Davos or the Great Reset or the stolen election of 2020 or any of the other political events that he spends his time talking about. You don't see (true) popes writing encyclicals about things like that; they write instead about matters of doctrine and morals.

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…In any case, I don't see how it saves anyone's soul to talk about Davos or the Great Reset or the stolen election of 2020 or any of the other political events that he spends his time talking about. You don't see (true) popes writing encyclicals about things like that; they write instead about matters of doctrine and morals.

Really?

So you think the Spiritual Works of Mercy (e.g., counseling the doubtful, instructing the ignorant, admonishing the sinner, and comforting the sorrowful) are useless for the salvation of anyone's soul?

Such works do nothing for the salvation of the one(s) doing the works or the one(s) receiving the works?

Hmmmmm…