Does Bp. Schneider's attempt to muzzle justifiable & even morally required criticism on supposedly devout grounds reveal not that Abp. Vigano lacks a supernatural perspective, but that he has succumbed to an identifiably diabolical one instead?

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What do these photos of the Schneider-Francis encounter suggest? Granted, we do not know what was said or done during their actual conversation. We only have the bishop’s own sparse comments...

... Schneider so chummy with the man who he believes habitually does untold damage to countless souls...

... Francis doesn’t look too displeased either to be meeting with his fiercest critic. If we look at how Bergoglio has dealt with other harsh opponents of his, such as the Most Rev. Joseph Strickland of Tyler, United States, that is at least suspicious. [https://novusordowatch.org/2025/01/bp-athanasius-schneider-audience-with-francis/]

Dr. Edmund Mazza:

Or a Sedevacantist, that’s another thing they call you a sedevacantist. But I got two quick quotes here. Here is one from Saint Cardinal Thomas Cajetan, whose feast day we celebrated back on August 7th. He wrote a multi-volume commentary on the Suma Theologica. And this is what Saint Cajetan says, “If someone for a reasonable motive holds the person of the Pope in suspicion and refuses his presence, even his jurisdiction, he does not commit the delict of schism, nor any other whatsoever, provided that he’d be ready to accept the Pope were he not held in suspicion. It goes without saying that one has the right to avoid what is harmful and to ward off dangers. In fact, it may happen that the Pope could govern tyrannically, and that is all the easier as he is the more powerful and does not fear any punishment from anyone on earth.” [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2023/05/flashback-dr-mazza-saint-cajetan-says_22.html]

Bishop Schneider Against Archbishop Viganò – and Vice Versa

Archbishop Carlo Viganò is "unfortunately in schism", Bishop Athanasius Schneider told the 'Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima' in a March 10 video.

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Monsignor Schneider believes that Viganò's attitude "seems to be driven by anger and lacks a supernatural perspective, which hinders true renewal."

Francis is promoting "some ambiguities and errors”, Bishop Schneider admitted.

Archbishop Viganò has attacked Bishop Schneider several times on X.com. The most serious was the disclosure of confidential information in January 2025:

Archbishop Viganò has attacked Bishop Schneider several times on X.com. The most serious was the disclosure of confidential information in January 2025:

"On the occasion of a conference at the Angelicum in Rome in 2018, Bishop Schneider, who was sitting next to me in the first row, placed in my hands a letter signed by the representative of the Secretariat of State, Archbishop Peña Parra, in which he was peremptorily ordered not to leave the territory of the diocese of Astana, of which he is still auxiliary bishop. And Schneider told me, 'Look what they did to me,'" Viganò wrote.

"What could have caused Bergoglio to revoke that order, so that for years he could travel anywhere? Perhaps the fact that Schneider, despite his muted criticism, recognises Bergoglio as Pope and as such goes to pay his respects at the Vatican?", Monsignor Viganò added. [https://gloria.tv/post/KdsDgSBZpgmb4mogcbVpSH6hU]

In his recent remarks, Bishop Schneider raises objections to the approach of Archbishop Vigano--objections which, according to the former, spell "being in schism" for the latter.  Considering that we're dealing with the musings of a man wholly allergic to the word "heresy" where it clearly applies (to the teaching and example of Jorge Bergoglio, that is), Bishop Schneider seems to allow himself wild verbal abandon in other contexts.  But, why?

First of all, Bishop Schneider charges Archbishop Vigano with using "disrespectful language" towards the current occupant of the Chair of Peter, even though Our Lord used terminology that could be regarded as such towards the religious leaders of His time.  We cannot help but ask, then, what "Christian perfection" could possibly mean to Bishop Schneider, since it doesn't necessarily mean (for him) conformity with Christ.  Moreover, does "disrespectful language" count as a criterion for going into schism in the first place, or does Bishop Schneider feel free to establish such criteria privately, without regard to the objective definitions accepted by the Church?

As for being "motivated by anger" (which is Bishop Schneider's next assessment regarding Archbishop Vigano; but then again, who is he to judge?) in addition to excoriating the Pharisees, Our Lord also drove the money changers from the Temple.  Does Bishop Schneider make any attempt to distinguish between righteous anger and the other kind? And if not, why not?

Finally, Bishop Schneider lodges an allegation of philosophical naturalism against those who, like Archbishop Vigano, strenuously object to predatory behavior--sexual and otherwise--on the part of those who should be the earthly representatives of Jesus Christ.  He says that Archbishop Vigano lacks a supernatural perspective, meaning (apparently) that seeing all things in the light of the Gospel entails blinding ourselves not only to the dogmatic truths which Bergoglio sullies and even denies, but also to the factual evidence of moral  corruption, financial sleight-of-hand, and raw assertion of personal domination which has characterized the Vatican most unmistakably since 2013.  To attempt to muzzle not only justifiable but even morally required criticism on supposedly devout grounds reveals not that Archbishop Vigano lacks a supernatural perspective, but that Bishop Schneider has succumbed to an identifiably diabolical one instead.

Note: This piece is by a Catholic Monitor contributor

Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.

Francis Notes:

– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html 

 –  LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

–  On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html

– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1

– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1

What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1] 

Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.

Pray an Our Father now for America.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.