Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the disgraced former papal nuncio to the United States who questioned the legitimacy of Pope Francis and the authority of the Second Vatican Council, has been ...

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., listens to remarks at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' annual fall meeting in Baltimore, Nov. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, ...

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who was informed of his excommunication on Friday, has long been a vocal critic of Pope Francis. By Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo Emma Bubola reported from Rome, ...

The Vatican has officially excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith announced Friday. Viganò was found guilty of the canonical crime, or delict, of ...

VATICAN CITY — Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a fierce ultraconservative critic of Pope Francis, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican’s doctrinal office said on ...

A firebrand conservative who became one of Pope Francis' most ardent critics has been excommunicated by the Vatican. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who once served as the Vatican's ambassador to the U ...

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former apostolic nuncio to the United States, is pictured at his residence at the Vatican in this Oct. 20, 2011, file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ...

The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has formally charged Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó, former nuncio to the United States, with schism and has opened a penal trial in this regard.

The Vatican on Friday excommunicated its former ambassador to Washington after finding him guilty of schism, an inevitable outcome for Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. The conservative had became one of ...