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Archbishop Viganò says 'cyberattack' has taken down his Exsurge Domine website

By Stephen KokxApril 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Archbishop Viganò says 'cyberattack' has taken down his Exsurge Domine website
Exsurge Domine | Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

The former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States attributed the attack to sinister forces who wish to silence the truth.

(LifeSiteNews) -- Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò announced on social media today that the website for his Exsurge Domine Foundation has been disabled due to a cyberattack.

“The official website of the Exsurge Domine Foundation — of which I am the patron — has been the target of a cyberattack, as a result of which it is inaccessible. Our technicians are trying to repair the damage and bring the site back online as soon as possible,” His Excellency said on X a little after 1 p.m. EST.

Viganò is the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. He launched Exsurge Domine on July 1, 2023, to “help priests and religious who are victims of the Bergoglian purges.” But even before the group’s establishment, Viganò provided pastoral guidance to countless priests who reached out to him from across the world while also issuing blistering critiques of the Deep State as well as what he calls “the Deep Church.”

Although Exsurge Domine’s website is currently offline, the website for its sister organization, Exsurge Domine USA, is still up and running.

In his X post, Viganò attributed the attack to sinister forces who wish to silence the truth.

“Attempts to censor every dissenting voice are multiplying, both in the civil and ecclesiastical spheres. Governments and the Catholic Hierarchy consider their citizens and faithful as enemies, while they welcome the enemies of the Fatherland and Religion at our expense,” His Excellency said.

His Excellency added that “in this ferocious attack on the Catholic faithful, the Hierarchy is never involved in defending them: this demonstrates its complicity in the dissolution of Europe and the Western world.”

Archbishop Viganò became a household name for Catholics living in the U.S. after he issued a 11-page testimony in 2018 accusing Francis of covering up sexual abuse of the now-deceased former cardinal archbishop of Washington D.C., Theodore McCarrick, who died last week at age 94. Viganò warned in a statement after McCarrick’s death that his “nephews,” liberal clergy like Cardinal Blase Cupich and newly installed D.C. Cardinal Robert McElroy, "still remain in power, in America and in the Vatican.”

Viganò concluded his X post by noting that “those who denounce the global coup d'état — which also involves the official Church — are mocked, discredited, psychiatrized and finally excommunicated: my case fits perfectly into this operation of criminalization and censorship that involves an increasingly large group of people, both in the civil and religious spheres.”

Faith & Religion
April 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Stephen Kokx

Stephen Kokx is a journalist for LifeSiteNews. A former community college instructor, Stephen has written and spoken extensively about Catholic social teaching, politics, and spirituality. He previously worked for the Archdiocese of Chicago under the late Francis Cardinal George. His essays have appeared in a variety of outlets, including Catholic Family News and CatholicVote.org. He is the author of two books, Navigating the Crisis in the Church: Essays in Defense of Traditional Catholicism and St. Alphonsus for the 21st Century: A Handbook for Holiness.
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