Many observers are of the opinion that the political choices made by Donald Trump in the very first days of his presidency will put the leaders of the Catholic Church in difficulty. Those decisions contrast with the directions followed by the Vatican in the areas of immigration, gender, the environment, green and highlight, negatively, that in the West a global system dominated by liberal culture had been established, an elitist and totalitarian post-democracy managed by the American Democratic administration and which brought together a wide range of power centers, coordinating their actions. Among these power centers were the owners of the Web, the major press, the universities, the so-called philanthropic foundations, the international agencies, the main Western governments and the management of the European Union. The fact that immediately after the first decisions of the new American administration we are witnessing a change of direction by many partners of this system – even Macron is now asking to abandon the green – confirms that this system existed and that the American elections have opened the doors to a counter-system.
There are many reasons to argue that the Catholic Church had contributed to that totalitarian system and that between its objectives and those of the Biden administration, the Davos Forum, the European Commission or the WHO – just to name a few of the clique – the unbiased observer notes many convergences. The first difficulty of the Catholic Church is precisely this, of not having been able to free itself from the dominant ideological power, of not having escaped from the meshes of a system, of not having defended justice as it should have. Not having supported the bishops who did not intend to give communion to politicians who support extreme abortion such as President Biden and Nancy Pelosi, having sent several messages of support and good wishes to Klaus Schwab, arguing that the Davos Forum could do a lot for the common good, having condemned without appeal any control and limitation of immigration, having accepted and supported the global police system established in the two-year period of Covid and having confirmed all the decisions of the WHO, having insisted, even with official documents such as the Exhortation Evangelii gaudium or the encyclical Lauda si’, on anthropogenic global warming and in support of that very climate ideology that is now being sunk by Biden because it lacks scientific foundations and brings poverty to the working masses… all this and more demonstrates a line of obsequiousness to the current system of social control.
The policies that the Church has supported, either by proposing them itself or by remaining silent about their negative aspects, have caused great damage. Think, for example, of the deaths caused by health totalitarianism during the pandemic and, following it, through the adverse effects. Or look at unemployment, the economic crisis, the social tensions caused by the green economy, with farmers protesting in the streets across half of Europe against the governments’ insane provisions or with car manufacturers closing or relocating their factories. Or refer to the complete lack of common sense in applying gender ideology in sports competitions between males and females, such as at the Paris Olympics, in communal bathrooms, often required by law, and in prisons. Think also of abortion, not in the sense that the Church has declared it admissible, but because on this issue its voice has become feeble and almost absent, preferring to intervene on immigrants and the environment. In the meantime, however, the global liberal system extended the right to birth, inserted it into the Constitution as in France, declared it a human right as in the European Parliament, and many countries provided by law for the distribution of abortion pills by mail. When, thanks to the appointments made by Trump in his first term, the Supreme Court abolished the previous legislation for unconstitutionality and gave the individual States back the competence in the matter, the Vatican simply took note. Now Trump is freeing the pro-lifers who are imprisoned, but the Church had not mobilized any protest in their defense. Not a word has been heard, I don’t say of apologies but at least of rethinking or course correction, from the ecclesiastical leaders, no bishop has said he regretted having closed the churches and sanctuaries in obedience to the WHO, of having supported the self-interested lies of paid virologists, of having forced his priests (even today those who refuse to get vaccinated are opposed and discriminated against in the dioceses), Pope Francis has not corrected his slogan “Getting vaccinated is an act of love” and regarding gender ideology both ecclesial practice and official declarations and recent documents clearly say that the Church is not willing to fight any battle on the subject. Homosexuality is now accepted as something natural – “God loves us as we are” -, the legal recognition of homosexual couples is also there, Cardinal Cupich says he is in favor of the adoption of minors, the blessing of homosexual couples foreseen by Fiducia supplicans opens the door to gender because they are dissocialized, with the authority of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the body and the person.
Stefano Fontana
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