Right or wrong, it took guts to do what they did, and they believed enough in their message to be willing to take the consequences on the chin.
I’m not sure what the job market looks like for unemployed theologians these days, but it’s pretty much a guarantee that, as the saying goes in Hollywood, “you’ll never work in this town again!” Not only have they pulled the tail of the massive tiger that is the Pope and his loyal cardinals, they pretty much yanked it completely off! In much the same way as the signers of the Declaration of Independence put a figurative British noose around each and every of their own necks, so the signers of this letter have destroyed their standing among all those in the powerful Church hierarchy who have a vested interest in this papal agenda.ĭescriptions you might see in other online articles branding these signers as petty and vengeful reactionaries are, I think, completely unjustified (as were those characterizations of Viganò’s motives months earlier). Still and all, the signers are indeed on very thin ice. al.), or the signers of this letter, there’s a natural tendency these days to immediately respond with an ad hominem hip shot branding the dissidents as judgemental/Pharisee-like/ rigid/haters with an axe to grind. Viganò), prominent on-line laymen (Michael Voris at Church Militant, et. Whether it’s a former papal nuncio (like Abp. You can read the letter in its entirety at this link: … It’s twenty pages, but twenty pages well worth reading regardless of your inclination to agree or disagree with its contents. Catholics, still reeling from the conflagration which devastated her beloved Notre Dame Cathedral, was rocked a few days later by the publication of an open letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church which accused Pope Francis of heresy, and requested that the bishops “take the steps necessary to deal with the grave situation of a heretical pope.”
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