#BreakingNews Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is Charged with Schism by the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

The Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has sent a document with the charge of the canonical crime of schism to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. Viganò is the former papal nuncio to the United States, from 2011 to 2016, and noted for speaking against Pope Francis publicly.  On June 20th, images were circulated of his citation in an extrajudicial process, authorized by the congresso of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s members on May 10th.
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The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith's document, from June 11th, noted that the its senior membership voted to proceed with Viganò’s trial using an abbreviated extrajudicial process, rather than a full canonical trial. Vigano is ordered to appeal at the dicastery in Rome to answer the charges on June 20th, either in person or through formal legal representation.
Schism, is defined by Canon Law as the “refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.”

The decree sent to Vigano, states that the archbishop is accused of making “public statements resulting in a denial of the elements necessary to maintain communion with the Catholic Church: denial of the legitimacy of Pope Francis, breaking of communion with him, and rejection of the Vatican Council II.”

Viagano posted this on his X account: 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗺 

(art. 2 SST; can. 1364 CIC) The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has informed me, with a simple email, of the initiation of an extrajudicial penal trial against me, with the accusation of having committed the crime of schism and charging me of having denied the legitimacy of “Pope Francis” of having broken communion “with Him” and of having rejected the Second Vatican Council. I have been summoned to the Palace of the Holy Office on June 20, in person or represented by a canon lawyer. I assume that the sentence has already been prepared, given that it is an extrajudicial process. I regard the accusations against me as an honor. I believe that the very wording of the charges confirms the theses that I have repeatedly defended in my various addresses. It is no coincidence that the accusation against me concerns the questioning of the legitimacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and the rejection of Vatican II: the Council represents the ideological, theological, moral, and liturgical cancer of which the Bergoglian “synodal church” is the necessary metastasis. Complete text of the announcement: