When they won’t excommunicate Biden or Pelosi? When they tell you that it’s OK to be a good [insert non-Catholic sect here]? When Vigano’s own defense …
Pope Alexander II threatened Marozia his Vatican mistress with excommunication if she left him. She stayed and their son later became pope. If Julius had excommunicated her, spiritually it would have meant nothing because it would have been unjust, but on a temporal secular level it would have caused her a lot social problems. My guess is that this is over Vigano's accusations that the Pope sexually …More
Pope Alexander II threatened Marozia his Vatican mistress with excommunication if she left him. She stayed and their son later became pope. If Julius had excommunicated her, spiritually it would have meant nothing because it would have been unjust, but on a temporal secular level it would have caused her a lot social problems.
My guess is that this is over Vigano's accusations that the Pope sexually abused seminarians when he was a bishop in Argentina. Even that was too much for Francis. Even though I don't like Pope Francis, I don't at all believe that those accusations were credible. Vigano could not provide any shred of evidence, only hearsay and gossip.