Context for journalists who don’t cover the church everyday: the site he links to is a fringe Catholic outift that pushes conspiracy theories and dislikes (to put it mildly) Pope Francis. The archbishop he mentions pushes “deep state” and “deep church” conspiracy theories.
Vigano was the Vatican’s rep to the US and was instrumental setting up the Pope Francis/Kim Davis in 2015, without the pope’s knowledge about the movement Davis represented. In retirement, Vigano has committed himself to undermining Pope Francis.
Trump has been courting white Catholics in recent months, a demographic key to the president’s 2016 win. Trump launched a “Catholics for Trump” group, counts on the support of “Priests for Life,” and hosted a call with Cardinal Dolan and other church leaders about schools.
A recent poll shows Trump’s support among white Catholics is dipping—perhaps providing the answer to the “why?” of this latest tweet: americamagazine.org/politics-socie…
And that poll was conducted before Trump’s visit to the JPII Shrine in DC, a visit that was denounced by DC’s Archbishop Wilton Gregory: americamagazine.org/politics-socie…
My story in @americamag: americamagazine.org/faith/2020/06/…
