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Inside the VaticanJuly 30, 2024
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is pictured at his residence at the Vatican in this Oct. 20, 2011, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò was declared guilty of schism and excommunicated on July 4. For anyone who has followed the archbishop’s public statements over the past few years, the decision was anything but a surprise. Still, no one could have predicted that this Vatican diplomat with more than 40 years of service would fall so precipitously from favor.

In this special deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews journalists, a canon lawyer and a historian to trace Viganò’s transformation from top Vatican official to being excommunicated for schism, and what that transformation means for the rest of the Catholic Church.

Special guests:

  • Robert Moynihan, editor-in-chief of Inside the Vatican magazine and a personal friend of Archbishop Viganò
  • Gerard O’Connell, Vatican correspondent for America
  • Dawn Eden Goldstein, who holds a licentiate in canon law from the Catholic University of America
  • Shaun Blanchard, lecturer in theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia

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