A former Vatican ambassador and archbishop recently urged Catholic Americans to vote for Donald Trump while suggesting Vice President Kamala Harris contradicts Christian values. According to Carlo Maria Vigano, who was excommunicated earlier this year said Vice President Kamala Harris is an “infernal monster who obeys Satan.”
Vigano penned a letter American Catholic voters, cautioning them about supporting Kamala Harris. However, Vigano was excommunicated from the Catholic Church earlier in the summer for questioning the Pope Francis, who has raised eyebrows from Catholics around the world for taking controversial stances.
Vigano began his letter, telling Catholics that “in this coming electoral round – just as in 2020 and indeed much more so – you are not simply called to choose between two candidates who happen to be on different political sides but who both nevertheless have the common good at heart in compliance with the Constitution and the Law. No; in this election you must choose between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation: you are called to choose between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and slavery.”
However, Vigano conceded that Trump was not the perfect candidate, but suggested Harris’ flaws made her far worse. “On the other side we have a candidate and a party that promotes everything that directly opposes the Faith and Morals of the Catholic Church. In Kamala Harris’ America, Catholics – but also Protestants – are considered fundamentalists to be marginalized and eliminated, and their children are considered the property of the State, which arrogates to itself the right to lead them astray from an early age in both body and soul. Trump’s America can become great and prosperous again. Harris’ America is destined for invasion and for moral, social, and economic destruction: the most ferocious dictatorship,” he said.
In the letter, Vigano added “voting for Donald Trump means firmly distancing ourselves from an anti-Catholic, anti-Christian and anti-human vision of society. It means stopping those who want to create a hellish dystopia that is even worse than the one announced by George Orwell.”
He further urged Christians to oppose Harris so that “President Trump knows that the massive vote of Catholics and Christians that brought him back to the White House must become the premise for a more incisive commitment to the defense of life from conception to natural death, the traditional family, the right of parents to educate their children, and to the defense of the Christian Faith and the cultural identity of the Nation.”
The former Vatican ambassador continued elaborating on his stance that a Catholic cannot vote for Kamala Harris, stating, “For a Catholic, there can be no question: voting for Kamala Harris is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin,” he said. “Nor is it morally possible to abstain, because in this war declaring oneself neutral means allying oneself with the enemy.”
Vigano also implored Americans to take a look around and observe what has become of the nation. “Your cities have become dumps filled with derelicts and criminals, drug dealers and addicts, prostitutes and robbers. Your schools are dens of indoctrination and corruption from kindergarten onwards. In your courts, criminals are acquitted and innocents are imprisoned: new ideological crimes are prosecuted, while illegality is tolerated and encouraged,” he said.
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