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If anyone didn't have time to read Archbishop Vigano's most recent letter, or if you had trouble understanding what he was saying, here is a diagram that may help explain it.
Some passages from the letter.... https://twitter.com/mfjlewis/status/1325582902239825921
More background. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/how-qanon-and-trumpism-have-infected-the-catholic-church
Back in June, Viganò wrote an open letter to Trump, which Trump later tweeted out. It was filled with conspiracy theories and QAnon imagery. @rightscholar broke it all down here. https://wherepeteris.com/the-redpilled-pope-of-the-qatholic-church/
Later that month we discussed this emerging conspiratorial extremism on the fringes (but seeping more and more into the minds of everyday Catholics) of the Catholic Church in the @PetersFieldHosp podcast. https://wherepeteris.com/vigano-qanon-and-the-deep-church-explained/
When Viganò's missives began appearing with greater frequency and he became a hero to the Maga wing of the US Church, and as Trump began to exploit this group for campaign purposes, @rightscholar wrote an update in July for @Where_Peter_is. https://wherepeteris.com/biblical/
Journalist @BfragaReporter wrote a lengthy but necessary analysis of the radical traditionalist wing of the Church back in August, and describes the form it has taken in response to these times. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/onthecatholicbeat/2020/08/your-choice-the-eucharist-or-the-red-pill/
More recently, @rightscholar dug into the long history of conspiracy theories similar to QAnon for @Where_Peter_is, and traced the roots of this type of phenomenon, including the 80s "satanic panic" & all the way back to anti-semitism in the middle ages. https://wherepeteris.com/the-revenge-of-pan-a-short-history-of-moral-panic/
For some background into the statements of Archbishop Viganò, and where he stands in relation to the Catholic Church and Pope Francis, check out this analysis by @FastiggiR in @Where_Peter_is (answer to the question: yes). https://wherepeteris.com/is-archbishop-vigano-in-schism/
