Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 82, the former papal nuncio to the United States (2011-2016), recently granted an interview to Russian television which was broadcast throughout Russia and also in Ukraine. Below is the text of the interview

“As a Bishop and Successor of the Apostles, I address the Russian and Ukrainian peoples in the name of Jesus Christ the King and the All Holy Mother of God, Help of Christians… Pray with faith, dear brothers in Christ: pray to the Queen of Peace, that she may intercede before the throne of God and implore for all of us true peace, pax Christi in regno Christi, the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ. Pray that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, may stir up sentiments of truth and justice in the rulers of all nations, leading them to make a leap of dignity and loyalty towards their fellow citizens, inducing them to free themselves from subjection to powers that no one wants, powers whom no one has elected, and whose sole purpose is to cancel Christ from the world and damn the souls He has redeemed with his own Blood.” —Archbishop Viganò, at the end of a recent interview with Russian journalist Arkady Mamontov for Rossyia 24 TV Channel, one of the leading television channels in Russia, aired yesterday in Russia and Ukraine
Letter #91, Monday, May 15: Viganò
A few days ago, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 82, the former papal nuncio to the United States (2011-2016), granted an interview to leading Russian television personality, Arcady Mamontov.
The interview was broadcast yesterday, Sunday, May 14, as part of Mamontov’s television program, and was able to be seen throughout Russia and also throughout Ukraine.
I even received a text message from Russia yesterday saying “Viganò on Russian TV — in prime time,” with a screen shot of Viganò speaking on a television set in Moscow.
Below is a link to the YouTube video of the interview.

Карло Мария Вигано. Американский метод

So here we have Archbishop Viganò speaking to the Russian people…

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Quite a production
The video is quite a production.
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(Special Linguistic Note: If you look at the letters on the screen below, you can see the archbishop’s name, Carlo Viganò: “K” is Russian for “C” (“Carlo”), the “a’ is the same, the “p” is an “r” the double “ll” is “l” and the “o” is the same = “Carlo.” Likewise his last name, “Viganò” because the initial “B” is a “V” in the Cyrillic alphabet, the backwards “n” is an “i,” the upside down “l” is a “g” (“from the Greek “gamma”), the “H” is an “n” in Cyrillic, and the “o” is the same = Viganò. The word in red is “Amerikanskii,” since Viganò was the Vatican nuncio in America.)

It is not an ordinary interview.
It is a television program in which Viganò’s interview is interspersed with images of the recent history of Russia and Ukraine, with footage from many of the events leading up to the present war, in the form of a documentary.
For example, its images of King Henry VIII and Martin Luther and of many other things Viganò speaks about.
These images illustrate Viganò’s words, turning them into a type of “documentary narration,” a text which serves to carry a story told in these images and in this film footage.
Viganò’s words in Italian are hardly heard at all, except for a few opening words which are quickly followed by a voice-over spoken in Russian — though very, very quietly, one can hear Viganò’s voice reading his answers to the questions in Italian in the deep background.
Also, questions 15 and 16 seem to be entirely omitted, and there may be other omissions — things in the written text that are not in this television version. (I was unable to determine, listening to the Russian video, if other cuts were made, but it seemed to me that some of the answers are abridged.)
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So here Viganò once again lays out his own understanding of the history leading up to this present war.
He attempt to put the reasons for the war — which is horrible — into some historical perspective.
I do know that Viganò was concerned for Russia already in 2012 and 2013 when I spoke with him about the world political scene.
Russia was then, and remains now, understood to be the pivotal country, once Christian, then atheist, whose eventual conversion — foreseen by Our Lady at Fatima as the inevitable “triumph of my Immaculate Heart” — would usher in “a period of peace” for the world.
So in this respect, what Viganò says here is not a new position from him, but an old one…
And in his desire for an end to the war, and for peace between Russia and Ukraine, he, while disagreeing on so many other points, agrees with Pope Francis — both men want peace…
Yet peace seems as distant today as it did in the first days of the war — perhaps more distant, since so many thousands have died, and since so much effort is now being spent to ramp up the production of war materials, artillery shells, et cetera, making the continuation of the war seem inevitable.
So I send out this text of Archbishop Viganò as a type of “public service” to show what some (in this case, Archbishop Viganò) are thinking about a war which, barring the intervention of a merciful God, seems increasingly likely to engulf us all…—RM

Source:
Letter #91, 2023 Mon, May 15: Viganò - Inside The Vatican