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Vatican City, Holy See—The Vatican has excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a virulent critic of Pope Francis, after finding him guilty of splitting the Church, the dicastery in charge of doctrine said on Friday.
“His public statements manifesting his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff, his rejection of communion with the members of the Church subject to him, and of the legitimacy and magisterial authority of the Second Vatican Council are well known,” wrote the dicastery in a statement. Vigano—who served as the Vatican’s US ambassador from 2011 to 2016 and who is backed by an ultra-conservative US church faction—has accused Francis of heresy in the past and in 2018 called for him to resign.
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