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during which he described Pope Francis as a "false pastor and servant of Satan"
The cited phrase is misattributed to Richard Williamson. Reporting on the alleged Viganò re-consecration and Viganò’s own December 2023 statement attribute this language to Carlo Maria Viganò, not to Williamson.
Full reasoning
The phrase "false pastor and servant of Satan" is not supported as something Williamson said during the reported conditional consecration.
- The Daily Compass article about the alleged January 2024 re-consecration says: "Pope Francis is a false pastor and servant of Satan," he said twenty days ago — and the paragraph is explicitly about Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò, not Williamson.
- A December 21, 2023 LifeSite publication reproducing Viganò’s own text likewise shows that Viganò used this rhetoric about Pope Francis and the "Bergoglian hierarchy," calling them "false shepherds" and "servants of Satan."
So while there was reporting about a possible Williamson-Viganò connection, the available sources attribute this inflammatory phrase to Viganò, not to Williamson "during" a consecration.
2 sources
- Crisis generates schisms: also Monsignor Viganò goes his own way - Daily Compass
With increasingly heated tones and harsher judgments ("Pope Francis is a false pastor and servant of Satan," he said twenty days ago regarding the green light to the blessings of gay unions), Viganò has accompanied his words with action...
- Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio's 'blessings' for homosexual couples show he is a 'servant of Satan' - LifeSite
The delirious Declaration Fiducia Supplicans... showing these false shepherds for what they really are: servants of Satan and his most zealous allies, beginning with the usurper who sits... on the Throne of Peter.