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Viganò, Vatican critic, blames ‘deep state’ for Ukraine war, citing COVID
-19 measures
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As Pope Francis continued attempts to mediate the
conflict in Ukraine, former Vatican envoy and outspoken papal critic
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released a letter Monday (March 7) blaming “
deep state” forces in the United States, the European Union and NATO for
triggering the current war and demonizing Russia.
“The United States of America and the European States must not marginalize
Russia but build an alliance with it, not only to restart trade for the
prosperity of all, but in lieu of the reconstruction of a Christian
Civilization, which will be the only one able to save the world from the
transhuman and medical-technical globalist monster,” the archbishop wrote
in his nearly 10,000 word letter.
The archbishop, once the papal nuncio to the United States among other
countries, has a keen understanding of what happens in rooms of power and
influence, but since accusing Francis of covering up allegations of sex
abuse against disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, going so far as to
ask for the pope’s resignation in 2018, Viganò has been welcomed into the
ranks of a small but outspoken Catholic conservative right. His rhetoric has
increasingly leaned on anti-migrant, anti-vaccine and pro-Trump takes.
The archbishop said in his letter that Putin has been cornered by an
aggressive NATO, backed by the United States, which is seeking to escalate
the conflict for its own gains. “This is the trap for Russia just as much
as Ukraine, using both to allow a globalist elite to bring its criminal plot
to fruition,” Viganò wrote.
So-called democratic states, according to Viganò, have imposed “censure
and intolerance” over dissenting opinions. The pandemic has exacerbated
this dynamic, the archbishop said, adding that global media outlets “
shamelessly lied” with the cooperation of governments and the Catholic
hierarchy.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting in Moscow, Russia
, on Dec. 26, 2018.
Viganò said the “ostracism” of those who have opposed the administration
of COVID-19 vaccines was similar to the treatment reserved for those who
refuse to call Putin an “invader” or “tyrant.”
The Vatican has repeatedly dismissed objections to the vaccines based on
their development or testing with stem cell lines original drawn from
aborted fetal cells. Pope Francis has joined global pro-vaccine campaigns,
calling getting the shot “an act of love.” The Pontifical Academy for Life
, a Vatican think tank charged with promoting life from conception to
natural death, has come forward numerous times encouraging Catholics to get
the vaccine.
Viganò adopted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s justifications for
attacking Ukraine, lamenting the lack of media coverage of supposed neo-Nazi
groups in Ukraine that have allegedly attacked Russian-speaking Ukrainians
in the autonomous eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ridiculed the idea that Nazism
is behind the eight-year-old conflict in his country’s east, which Russia
invaded in 2014.
The letter was the second defense of Russia’s invasion to be floated by a
prominent churchman in recent days. In a sermon on Sunday, Patriarch Kirill
of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and an ally of Putin,
repeated a long-held contention that the West wants to enforce the practice
of holding gay pride parades as a test of loyalty to its values, which
include the acceptance of homosexuality. The Ukraine war, he said Sunday,
resulted from the eastern regions’ refusal to acquiesce.
“If humanity accepts that sin is not a violation of God’s law, if humanity
accepts that sin is a variation of human behavior, then human civilization
will end there,” Kirill said on the pre-Lenten celebration known as
Forgiveness Sunday.
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in
Moscow, Jan. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
But Viganò sees a deeper plot to institute a new world order. Naming the
United Nations, NATO and the International Monetary Fund as well as the
European Union and billionaire philanthropists like George Soros and Bill
Gates, the archbishop identified a global conspiracy, initiated by an
American deep state, to introduce a world government based on economic
interests and progressivism.
Viganò portrayed Zelenskyy as an E.U. puppet, an affable outsider
introduced to foment Ukrainians’ feelings against Russia.
“The image of Zelenskyy is an artificial product, a mediatic fiction, an
operation to manipulate consensus that was nonetheless able to create a
political character in the Ukrainian collective imagination and who in
reality, not in fiction, was able to seize power,” the former Vatican envoy
wrote of the Ukrainian president, who is Jewish. |
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