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Letter #32, Friday, October 30, 2020: Viganò to Trump

 

“I am writing to you in the midst of the silence of both civil and religious authorities. May you accept these words of mine as the ‘voice of one crying out in the desert’” (Jn 1:23).—Italian Archbishop Viganò, in his latest essay, an Open Letter to U.S. President Donald Trump. The letter is dated on Sunday, October 25, the Feast of Christ the King, but published this morning, October 30, in a coordinated fashion, on various websites and languages around the world.

 

Friday, October 30, 2020 – His Excellency Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written yet another open letter to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, and in doing so he has become a lightning rod for both political and religious concerns of a profound nature worldwide.

 

In this new Letter, Viganò is giving expression to the concerns felt by very many around the world who are fearful of the present, and likely future, policies that seem to be “locking down” economies worldwide.

 

In this new Open Letter, Viganò enters into questions which are, admittedly, of very grave importance for human life, indeed, questions of critical importance for our future.

 

Still, the questions he addresses are not the final, central questions Christians are asked to face as matters of ultimate, decisive importance: that is, questions regarding Christ the Savior Himself.

 

Viganò’s new letter is already prompting enormous interest on the internet. Some are reporting on social media sites that their sites are being overwhelmed by interest in this letter. This reveals the Letter’s importance.

 

Yet Viganò himself says that he is writing as a lone voice, like a lonely prophet in the desert — as he tells us in the quote at the outset — because almost no one else in the Church hierarchy has had the courage to speak out in this way about the great questions of human freedom that these lockdowns, travel restrictions, and proposed tracking technologies, have begun to pose in a very dramatic and pressing way as heard in the cries of people in the streets of Italy in these days.

 

Jesus said, “I came that you might have life, and have it more abundantly.” That life comes from following Him in loving God and loving one’s neighbor, His two great commandments. From these two commandments follow all that the Church teaches; our commitment to social justice, our commitment to provide a minimum of security, food and shelter for the poor, our commitment to the defense of the weak, our commitment to visit prisoners, our commitment to justice for the oppressed and exploited.

 

https://insidethevatican.com/news/newsflash/letter-32-friday-october-30-2020-vigano-to-trump/