In an open letter to American Catholics, former Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò endorsed former President Donald Trump and strongly denounced his opponent Kamala Harris as “an infernal monster who obeys Satan.”

Vigano, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from 2011 until 2016, went into hiding, in fear for his life in August of 2018, after accusing Pope Francis of covering up sexual abuse allegations against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick in an eleven-page bombshell letter. Previous to that, the archbishop publicized the Vatican leaks scandal of 2012, in which he revealed financial corruption in the Vatican.

On July 4, 2024, the whistleblower was found guilty of schism and excommunicated by the Vatican for allegedly making “public statements resulting in a denial of the elements necessary to maintain communion with the Catholic Church: denial of the legitimacy of Pope Francis, breaking of communion with him, and rejection of the Vatican Council II.”

In his letter, Vigano wrote that the choice in the November election is “between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation: you are called to choose between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and slavery.”

“For a Catholic, there can be no question: voting for Kamala Harris is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin. Nor is it morally possible to abstain, because in this war declaring oneself neutral means allying oneself with the enemy,” he continued.

“The choice is between a conservative President, who is paying with his very life for his fight against the deep state, and an infernal monster who obeys Satan,” Vigano declared.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris: we are not talking about two visions that are a bit different but still part of the normal political back-and-forth. No; we are talking about two diametrically opposed and irreconcilable worlds, in which Trump fights against the deep state and is committed to freeing America from its tentacled grip, while on the opposite side we have a corrupt and blackmailed candidate, an organic part of the deep state, who acts as a puppet in the hands of warmongers like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, of self-proclaimed “philanthropists” like the criminals George Soros and Klaus Schwab, or of characters like Jeffrey Epstein and Sean Combs.

Their program is that of the Global Left, the World Economic Forum, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and ultimately the program of Vanguard, BlackRock, and StateStreet. Their agenda is dictated by the financial oligarchy that controls humanity to the detriment of the people: an elite that operates not only in the United States but also in Canada, Australia, Europe, and wherever politics is held hostage by their investment funds and their pseudo-humanitarian organizations dedicated to the obliteration of Western Civilization.

The former archbishop also said voting for Trump “means firmly distancing ourselves from an anti-Catholic, anti-Christian and anti-human vision of society. It means stopping those who want to create a hellish dystopia that is even worse than the one announced by George Orwell.”

Vigano proclaimed that Trump is “the only possible choice to counter the globalist coup that the woke Left is about to implement definitively, irreparably, and with incalculable damage for future generations.”

“We want Christ to reign, and we proclaim it with pride: Christ is King! They want the Antichrist to reign, whose tyranny is made of chaos, war, disease, famine, and death,” he added.

The entire letter can be read here. 

There are approximately 52 million Catholic adults in the United States, representing about 20 percent of the adult population, according to a Pew Research Center survey. A majority of Catholic voters (52 percent) say they will vote for Trump, according to the latest Pew poll, versus a concerning 47 percent who say they will vote for Harris.

The esteemed American Cardinal Raymond Burke has also published election advice to the faithful in the U.S.,  urging them to “pray and fast” and remain “tirelessly steadfast in our opposition to the anti-life, anti-family, and anti-religion agenda which are destroying families, communities, and our nation.”

To help the U.S. government “once again serve the good of all its citizens,” the cardinal said Catholics should “study carefully the agenda of each candidate,” and consider where they find “even the smallest ray of hope” that their vote could positively impact the common good.

“[If] there is even the smallest ray of hope to effect some change in view of effecting ever greater change for the common good, it is not right for us to fail in responding to the ray of hope,” Burke wrote, stressing that abstaining from voting is only justified “if no candidate provides any ray of hope of serving, at least in some part, the common good, especially in what pertains to human life, marriage and the family, and the practice of religion.”

Additionally, Father Chad Ripperger, a highly regarded Catholic priest, theologian, and exorcist, composed a powerful prayer for the upcoming election, entitled “Consecration of the Election to the Blessed Virgin Mary” focusing on the integrity of the voting process and spiritual discernment “lest we be given the leaders we deserve.”