President Trump on Wednesday praised Carlo Vigano, the controversial former papal nuncio to the United States who once said that Pope Francis should resign.
“So honored by Archbishop Viganò’s incredible letter to me. I hope everyone, religious or not, reads it!” Trump tweeted, linking to a letter which Vigano addressed to him on Sunday
The letter, written against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic and the protests after the death of George Floyd, praises Trump for combating the “deep state,” which Vigano alleges is trying to undermine the president.
“It is quite clear that the use of street protests is instrumental to the purposes of those who would like to see someone elected in the upcoming presidential elections who embodies the goals of the deep state and who expresses those goals faithfully and with conviction,” Vigano wrote. “It will not be surprising if, in a few months, we learn once again that hidden behind these acts of vandalism and violence there are those who hope to profit from the dissolution of the social order so as to build a world without freedom.”
Vigano praised Trump for his participation in the March for Life, his defense of religious freedom, and his controversial visit to the St. John Paul II Shrine last week. The archbishop added that Trump’s critics in the Catholic Church are deep state agents.
“They are subservient to the deep state, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood which has nothing Christian about it, but which evokes the Masonic ideals of those want to dominate the world by driving God out of the courts, out of schools, out of families, and perhaps even out of churches,” he wrote.
Vigano, in 2018, called on Francis to resign amid accusations that the pope covered up decades of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
