The former Secretary-General of Vatican City State Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released a dire warning on Tuesday about a creeping “planetary dictatorship” that he says will enslave the world.

A “global coup d’état” is occurring, the former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States said. He invoked the “Great Reset,” a movement advocated by organizations like the World Economic Forum that, in his estimation, will eventually lead to a “New World Order.”

To fight this phenomenon, Viganò called on Christians of the world to unite, saying: “it is necessary to form an international Anti-Globalist Alliance, which gathers all those who want to oppose the dictatorship, who have no intention of becoming slaves to a faceless power, who are not willing to cancel their own identity, their own individuality, their own religious faith.”

He then called on citizens of the world to unite in confronting this development, saying: “If the attack is global, the defense must also be global.”

Viganò is a known critic of COVID-19 restrictions and warned that demagogues are manipulating it to gain power and deny regular citizens their personal liberties. However, the latest appeal is perhaps his most disturbing to date. The video statement, released initially to the  Gateway Pundit and titled “APPEAL FOR AN ANTI-GLOBALIST ALLIANCE,” begins with the prelate warning:

FOR  TWO YEARS  NOW, we have been witnessing a global coup d’état, in which a financial and ideological elite has succeeded in seizing control of part of national governments, public and private institutions, the media, the judiciary, politicians, and religious leaders. All of these, without distinction, have become enslaved to these new masters who ensure power, money, and social affirmation to their accomplices. Fundamental rights, which up until yesterday were presented as inviolable, have been trampled underfoot in the name of an emergency: today a health emergency, tomorrow an ecological emergency, and after that an internet emergency.

This global coup d’état deprives citizens of any possibility of defense since the legislative, executive, and judicial powers are complicit in the violation of law, justice, and the purpose for which they exist. It is a global coup d’état because this criminal attack against citizens extends to the whole world, with very rare exceptions. It is a world war, where the enemies are all of us, even those who unwittingly have not yet understood the significance of what is happening. It is a war fought not with weapons but with illegitimate rules, wicked economic policies, and intolerable limitations of natural rights.

Supranational organizations, financed in large measure by the conspirators of this coup d’état, are interfering in the government of individual nations and in the lives, relationships, and health of billions of people. They are doing it for money, certainly, but even more so in order to centralize power so as to establish a planetary dictatorship. It is the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum, the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations. It is the plan of the New World Order, in which a Universal Republic enslaves everyone and a Religion of Humanity cancels Faith in Christ.

Viganò is not the only Catholic hierarch sounding the alarm. Fellow prelate Cardinal Raymond Burke said that US president Joe Biden should be excluded from receiving Catholic sacraments due to his long history of advocating abortion also .cautioned that Covid is being leveraged by backers of “The Great Reset” to push an “evil agenda.”

Regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Viganò implicates a deep-state plot involving international government bodies such as “the WEF, NATO, UN, the European Union, and the IMF.”