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Archbishop Viganò Responds to CFN
Editor’s Note: The following is a letter addressed by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò to Catholic
Family News contributor Stephen Kokx, who wrote an article in late August asking several questions
of His Excellency (published on our website). In his detailed reply – covering such topics as the
proper stance towards the Church’s hierarchy (Pope and bishops) during the ongoing crisis, from
whom the faithful should seek the sacraments and catechesis, what priests can do to help the
situation, and his first public comments on the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) – Archbishop Viganò
demonstrates that he is a true shepherd who cares for the confused and abandoned sheep of our
time. He provides clear and practical answers for the increasing number of Catholics whose eyes
are being opened to the Conciliar Revolution. CFN is profoundly grateful to Archbishop Viganò for
taking the time to personally answer Mr. Kokx’s questions.
By His Excellency
Carlo Maria Viganò
Dear Mr. Kokx,
I read with lively interest
your article “Questions for
Viganò: His Excellency is
Right about Vatican II,
But What Does He Think
Catholic Should Do Now?”
which was published by
Catholic Family News on
Aug. 22. I am happy to
respond to your questions,
which address matters that
are very important for the
faithful.
You ask: “What would
‘separating’ from the
Conciliar Church look like
in Archbishop Viganò’s
opinion?” I respond to you
with another question:
“What does it mean to
separate from the Catholic
Church according to the
supporters of the Council?”
While it is clear that no
admixture is possible
with those who propose
adulterated doctrines of
the  conciliar ideological
manifesto, it should be noted
that the simple fact of being
baptized and of being living
members of the Church
of Christ does not imply
adherence to the conciliar
team; this is true above all
for the simple faithful and
also for secular and regular
clerics who, for various
reasons, sincerely consider
themselves Catholics and
recognize the Hierarchy.
Instead, what needs to
be clarified is the position
of those who, declaring
themselves Catholic,
embrace the heterodox
doctrines that have spread
over these decades, with
the awareness that these
represent a rupture with
the preceding Magisterium.
In this case it is licit to
doubt their real adherence
to the Catholic Church, in
which however they hold
official roles that confer
authority on them. It is an
illicitly exercised authority,
if its purpose is to force
the faithful to accept the
revolution imposed since
the Council.
Once this point has been
clarified, it is evident that it
is not the traditional faithful
– that is, true Catholics, in
the words of Saint Pius X
– that must abandon the
Church in which they have
the full right to remain and
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from which it would be
unfortunate to separate; but
rather the Modernists who
usurp the Catholic name,
precisely because it is only
the  bureaucratic  element
that permits them not to
be considered on a par
with any heretical sect.
This claim of theirs serves
in fact to prevent them
from ending up among
the hundreds of heretical
movements that over the
course of the centuries have
believed to be able to reform
the Church at their own
pleasure, placing their pride
ahead of humbly guarding
the teaching of Our Lord.
But just as it is not possible
to claim citizenship in a
homeland in which one
does not know its language,
law, faith and tradition;
so it is impossible that
those who do not share the
faith, morals, liturgy, and
discipline of the Catholic
Church can arrogate to
themselves the right to
remain within her and even
to ascend the levels of the
hierarchy.
Resist the
Temptation to
Abandon the Church
Therefore let us not
give in to the temptation
to abandon – albeit with
justified indignation – the
Catholic Church, on the
pretext that it has been
invaded by heretics and
fornicators: it is they who
must be expelled from the
sacred enclosure, in a work
of purification and penance
that must begin with each
one of us.
It is also evident that
there are widespread
cases in which the faithful
encounter serious problems
in frequenting their parish
church, just as there are
ever fewer churches where
the Holy Mass is celebrated
in the Catholic Rite. The
horrors that have been
rampant for decades in
many our parishes and
shrines make it impossible
even to assist at a
“Eucharist” without being
disturbed and putting one’s
faith at risk, just as it is very
difficult to ensure a Catholic
education, Sacraments
being worthily celebrated,
and solid spiritual guidance
for oneself and one’s
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children. In these cases
faithful laity have the right
and the duty to find priests,
communities, and institutes
that are faithful to the
perennial Magisterium.
And may they know how
to accompany the laudable
celebration of the liturgy
in the Ancient Rite with
adherence to sound doctrine
and morals, without any
subsidence on the front of
the Council. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
The situation is certainly
is strong, but we ought to having allowed the flame of
more complex for clerics,
take an example from the Tradition to be extinguished
who depend hierarchically
persecutions that many at a moment in which
on their bishop or religious
saints have undergone, celebrating the ancient
superior, but who at the
including Saint Athanasius, Mass was considered
same time have the right
who offers us a model of subversive and a reason
to remain Catholic and be
how to behave in the face for excommunication. Its
able to celebrate according
of widespread heresy and priests have been a healthy
to the Catholic Rite. On the
persecuting fury. As my thorn in the side for a
one hand laity have more
venerable brother Bishop hierarchy that has seen
freedom of movement in
Athanasius Schneider has in them an unacceptable
choosing the community
many times recalled, the point of comparison for the
to which they turn for
Arianism that afflicted the faithful, a constant reproach
Mass, the Sacraments,
Church at the time of the for the betrayal committed
and religious instruction,
Holy Doctor of Alexandria against the people of God,
but less autonomy because
in Egypt was so widespread an inadmissible alternative
of the fact that they still
among the bishops that it to the new conciliar
have to depend on a priest;
leaves one almost to believe path. And if their fidelity
on the other hand, clerics
that Catholic orthodoxy had made disobedience to the
have less freedom of
completely disappeared. Pope inevitable with the
movement, since they are
But it was thanks to episcopal consecrations,
incardinated in a diocese
the fidelity and heroic thanks to them the Society
or order and are subject to
testimony of the few bishops was able to protect herself
ecclesiastical authority, but
who remained faithful that from the furious attack of
they have more autonomy
the Church knew how to get the Innovators and by its
because of the fact that they
back up again. Without this very existence it allowed
can legitimately decide to
testimony, Arianism would the possibility of the
celebrate the Mass and
not have been defeated; liberalization of the Ancient
administer the Sacraments
without our testimony Rite, which until then was
in the Tridentine Rite and
today, Modernism and prohibited. Its presence also
to preach in conformity
the globalist apostasy of allowed the contradictions
with sound doctrine. The
this Pontificate will not be and errors of the conciliar
Motu Proprio Summorum
defeated. sect to emerge, always
Pontificum reaffirmed that
It is therefore not a winking at heretics and
faithful and priests have
question of working from idolaters but implacably
the inalienable right –
within the Church or rigid and intolerant towards
which cannot be denied –
outside it: the winemakers Catholic Truth.
to avail themselves of the
are called to work in the I consider Archbishop
liturgy that more perfectly
Lord’s Vineyard, and it Lefebvre an exemplary
expresses their Catholic
is there that they must confessor of the Faith,
Faith. But this right must
remain even at the cost of and I think that by now
be used today not only and
their lives; the pastors are it is obvious that his
not so much to preserve
called to pastor the Lord’s denunciation of the Council
the extraordinary form of
Flock, to keep the ravenous and the modernist apostasy
the rite, but to testify to
wolves at bay and to drive is more relevant than ever.
adherence to the depositum
away the mercenaries who It should not be forgotten
fidei that finds perfect
are not concerned with the that the persecution to
correspondence only in the
salvation of the sheep and which Archbishop Lefebvre
Ancient Rite.
lambs. was subjected by the
I daily receive heartfelt
Holy See and the world
letters from priests
Praise for the SSPX episcopate served above all
and religious who are
and Archbishop as a deterrent for Catholics
marginalized or transferred
Lefebvre who were refractory toward
or ostracized because of
the conciliar revolution.
their fidelity to the Church: This hidden and often
I also agree with
the temptation to find an silent work has been
the observation of His
ubi consistam [a place carried out by the Society
Excellency Bishop Bernard
to stand] far from the of Saint Pius X, which
Tissier de Mallerais about
clamor of the Innovators deserves recognition for not
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Archbishop Viganò rights of God and the liberty

of the Church, it was also
necessary to take up arms:
Continued from page 15 we are taught this by the
strenuous resistance to
the co-presence of two call it almost a resurrection
repel the Islamic invasions
entities in Rome: the – is necessary, urgent and
in Lepanto and on the
Church of Christ has been inevitable: no son tolerates
outskirts of Vienna, the
occupied and eclipsed by his mother being outraged
persecution of the Cristeros
the modernist conciliar by the servants, or his
in Mexico, of the Catholics
structure, which has father being tyrannized by
in Spain, and even today
established itself in the the administrators of his
by the cruel war against
same hierarchy and uses the goods. The Lord offers us,
Christians throughout
authority of its ministers to in these painful situations,
the world. Never as today
prevail over the Spouse of the possibility of being His
can we understand the
Christ and our Mother. allies in fighting this holy
theological hatred coming
The Church of Christ battle under His banner:
from the enemies of God,
– which not only subsists the King Who is victorious
inspired by Satan. The
in the Catholic Church, over error and death
attack on everything that
but is exclusively the permits us to share the
recalls the Cross of Christ – CFN contributor Stephen Kokx
Catholic Church – is only honor of triumphal victory
on Virtue, on the Good and
obscured and eclipsed and the eternal reward that House of the Lord, it is a certainty that comes to me
the Beautiful, on purity
by a strange extravagant derives from it, after having thousand times preferable from Faith, that the Lord will
– must spur us to get up,
Church  established in endured and suffered with to go to a church where not fail to reward our fidelity,
in a leap of pride, in order
Rome, according to the Him. the priest celebrates the after having punished us for
to claim our right not only
vision of Blessed Anne Holy Sacrifice worthily, the faults of the men of the
not to be persecuted by our
Catherine Emmerich. It Rediscover Our in the rite given to us by Church, granting us holy
external enemies but also
coexists, like wheat with the Identity as the Tradition, with preaching priests, holy bishops, holy
and above all to have strong
tare, in the Roman Curia, in Church Militant in conformity with sound cardinals, and above all a
and courageous pastors,
dioceses, in parishes. We doctrine. When parish holy Pope. But these saints
But in order to deserve the holy and God-fearing, who
cannot judge our pastors priests and bishops realize will arise from our families,
immortal glory of Heaven will do exactly what their
for their intentions, nor that the Christian people from our communities, from
we are called to rediscover predecessors have done
suppose that all of them demand the Bread of our churches: families,
– in an emasculated age for centuries: preach the
are corrupt in faith and Faith, and not the stones communities, and churches
devoid of values such as Gospel of Christ, convert
morals; on the contrary, and scorpions of the neo- in which the grace of God
honor, faithfulness to individuals and nations,
we can hope that many of church, they will lay aside must be cultivated with
one’s word, and heroism and expand the Kingdom
them, hitherto intimidated their fears and comply with constant prayer, with the
– a fundamental aspect of of the living and true God
and silent, will understand, the legitimate requests of frequenting of Holy Mass
the faith of every baptized throughout the world.
as confusion and apostasy the faithful. The others, and the Sacraments, with
person: the Christian life We are all called to make
continue to spread, the true mercenaries, will the offering of sacrifices
is a militia, and with the an act of Fortitude – a
deception to which they show themselves for what and penances that the
Sacrament of Confirmation forgotten cardinal virtue,
have been subjected and they are and will be able Communion of Saints
we are called to be soldiers which not by chance in
will finally shake off their to gather around them permits us to offer to the
of Christ, under whose Greek recalls virile strength,
slumber. There are many only those who share their Divine Majesty in order to
insignia we must fight. andreía – in knowing how
laity who are raising their errors and perversions. expiate our sins and those of
Of course, in most cases to resist the Modernists: a
voice; others will necessarily They will be extinguished our brethren, including those
it is essentially a spiritual resistance that is rooted in
follow, together with good by themselves: the Lord who exercise authority. The
battle, but over the course Charity and Truth, which
priests, certainly present dries up the swamp and laity have a fundamental
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