ROME — The Vatican on Friday excommunicated its former ambassador to Washington after finding him guilty of schism, an inevitable outcome for Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. The conservative had ...

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former papal ambassador to the United States who became an ultra-conservative critic ...

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a leading critic of Pope Francis, on Thursday, said he is being tried for "schism". Viganò is an Italian clergyman who has increasingly found himself at odds with ...

The Catholic governing body confirmed that Vigano was found guilty and excommunicated ... to appear before the Dicastery to ...

The charges: the “crime of schism” and “denial of the legitimacy of Pope Francis.” Such trials are exceedingly rare, and the ...

If found guilty of schism, he would be subject to “excommunication latae sententiae,” an automatic penalty that would prohibit the prelate from performing and receiving the sacraments.

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the former Vatican ambassador to the U.S., to face schism charges. "Who else thinks the Vigano accusation is timed just right ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s former nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, said on Thursday that he has been summoned by the Vatican to face charges of schism.

Knewz.com has learned that his infraction dubbed a schism, followed accusations of his refusal to take communion with his subjects and accept Pope Francis’s authority. In a press release on July ...

The Vatican on Friday excommunicated its former ambassador to Washington after finding him guilty of schism, an inevitable outcome for Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. The conservative had become ...