Reviewing the actions that led up to the dramatic act of Viganò's excommunication is essential for understanding it. What we will find is that there are no heroes in this story.
The other shoe finally dropped: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former papal nuncio to the United States who came to worldwide fame during the 2018 McCarrick scandal, has been excommunicated. This came as no surprise to those who have been following the Archbishop’s actions in recent years, but nonetheless it is always shocking when a high-ranking hierarch like Viganò receives this supreme penalty.
