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OSV News) — A northern Wisconsin bishop accused Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó, former apostolic nuncio to the U.S., of defamation, while seeking clarification of an allegedly illicit priest ordination that the archbishop might have conducted.
Bishop James P. Powers of Superior, Wisconsin, released a strongly worded statement April 5, responding to a March 22 post from the X (formerly Twitter) account of Archbishop Viganó, which sharply criticized a Native American ritual preceding this year’s diocesan chrism Mass March.
The ritual, which took place at the Cathedral of Christ the King March 19, had been the subject of controversy online. A video livestreaming the chrism Mass showed that before the Mass began, four Ojibwe women dressed in traditional garb and holding feathers did a choreographed dance in the sanctuary, accompanied by the playing of a drum, before a prayer to God, the Creator, during which the women faced east, south, west and north.
“This is not a Successor of the Apostles, but a servant of Freemasonry,” the archbishop said, adding that “to see that the participants in the profanations of the Bergoglian sect are almost all of advanced age” was “comforting.”
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Bishop James P. Powers of Superior, Wisconsin, released a strongly worded statement April 5, responding to a March 22 post from the X (formerly Twitter) account of Archbishop Viganó, which sharply criticized a Native American ritual preceding this year’s diocesan chrism Mass March.
The ritual, which took place at the Cathedral of Christ the King March 19, had been the subject of controversy online. A video livestreaming the chrism Mass showed that before the Mass began, four Ojibwe women dressed in traditional garb and holding feathers did a choreographed dance in the sanctuary, accompanied by the playing of a drum, before a prayer to God, the Creator, during which the women faced east, south, west and north.
Accusations of sacrilege and Freemasonry
In an X post, Archbishop Viganó called the ritual a “shamanic ceremony” and “a sacrilegious act that desecrates the Cathedral of the diocese of Superior.” He also accused Bishop Powers of being responsible for a “very serious sacrilege,” saying that the bishop was “a squalid official of the ecumenical religion, a dutiful executor of Santa Marta’s wishes,” referring to the home of Pope Francis.“This is not a Successor of the Apostles, but a servant of Freemasonry,” the archbishop said, adding that “to see that the participants in the profanations of the Bergoglian sect are almost all of advanced age” was “comforting.”
Bishop Powers responds
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Wisconsin bishop accuses Archbishop Viganó of defamation
A northern Wisconsin bishop has accused Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó, former apostolic nuncio to the U.S., of defamation:
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