THE CATHOLIC REACTION TO THE TRUMP-AS-POPE MEME

        Those Americans who rely on Controlled Opposition 'news' sites for their information have heard during the last few days slobbering apologies from token Catholics over a disgusting post from the White House depicting Dear Leader as Pope. This occurred a little under two weeks after the passing of Pope Francis, who had a photo-op foisted on his deathbed by J.D. Vance---who, by many accounts, had another of his epic meltdowns in the Pope's presence. 

       Catholicism in the United States is currently undergoing an unwholesome transformation unlike its presence in other countries. The same sort of politicization of Christianity that swept into American Protestantism a few decades ago is gaining a foothold in the Catholic Church as well. We've mentioned here before what has happened with formerly staunchly Catholic website Life Site News as an example. As of this writing, LSN hasn't even commented on the White House post, which probably shouldn't be surprising, although they currently have several posts up praising Trump and a few pro-Administration pundits for some superficial moves that are allegedly pro-Christian. Since Inauguration Day, LSN has become known among many Catholics as Lick-Spittle News for its shameless servility to the New Right. Most of the American criticism of the White House post has come from the Catholic hierarchy, which increasingly is being ignored by the more vocal brigades.

      Whereas the co-opting of American Protestantism focuses heavily upon apocalyptic scenarios and fusions of Old Testament Phariseeism superimposed on Reformed Theology, the attempts to co-opt Catholicism focuses upon a romanticized version of 'Catholic tradition' which holds up the social system of Mediaeval Europe as some sort of ideal. JD Vance, a pretended convert to Catholicism, is the ideal figurehead for this movement. Essentially, the Protestant New Right would see us go back to the 16th Century; the Catholic New Right prefers that we return to the 6th. The difference is really immaterial: the New Right's ultimate agenda---in line with that of the Great Reset---is rolling back the sociopolitical progress that humanity has made since the 18th Century. 

     Many of the Catholic New Right had an undisguised hatred of the late Pope Francis. Many of the Laity who follow these charlatans ought to reflect that, whatever Francis' shortcomings, they pale in comparison to what the Reactionary Catholics hope to impose. It's much like the Neocons of the 2024 Campaign blaming every social, economic, and political problem facing America on Biden while keeping their own intentions discreetly out of sight.

     The Middle Ages were not exactly a Golden Age by any standard; and those who criticize Francis as the worst Pope in history ought to survey the collection of blackguards who dominated the Vatican for those centuries. The blatant corruption and sycophancy to vested interests in that era caused two major schisms in the Church: the Orthodox Church grew out of one and the Protestant Churches grew out of the other. In fact, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment could almost be considered secular schisms. 

     If anyone disbelieves this, let us read a contemporary's account relayed to him of a friend's pilgrimage to Rome during the 14th Century and what he saw of the Papal Curia:

     "He found all, from the highest to the lowest, most shamefully given to the sin of lust, and that not only by the way of Nature but of the Sodomitical fashion, without any remorse or shame, insomuch as the interests of courtesans and catamites was of no small avail there of obtaining any considerable thing. Moreover, he manifestly perceived them to be universally gluttons, winebibbers, drunkards, and slaves to their bellies, brute-beast fashion, more than aught else after lust. 

    "Looking further, he found them all covetous and greedy after money, insomuch as human, nay even Christian blood, no less than things sacred, whatsoever they might be, whether pertaining to the sacrifices of the altar or to the benefices of the Church, they sold and bought indifferently for a price, making more traffic and having more brokers thereof than folk at Paris trading in silks and stuff and what else. Manifest simony they called 'procuration' and gluttony 'sustentation' as if God apprehended not the intentions of depraved minds and would suffer Himself after the fashion of men to be duped by the mere names of things."

    Which depiction, despite being nearly 800 years old, sounds uneasily like what one might note of the Washington Beltway, or Wall Street, or Hollywood, or (regrettably) Mar-a-Lago in our day. It is, however, the sort of social milieu that people that many in this Administration would find appealing.

    

        It's really a sad commentary on the state of American Culture that Catholics across North America have allowed themselves to be taken in by these impostors---who, by the way, are hostile to traditional Christians in general and Catholics in particular. The Uniparty wants no allegiance to any but itself; and subverting religion to authoritarian ends has a long history dating back to Ancient Mesopotamia and probably even earlier. The fact that the human instinct to turn to God and recognize Him as the Ultimate Authority keeps reasserting itself through these dark periods of corruption is testimony to its strength. 

     That is where our hope as a people lies, and why, ultimately the Techno-Fascists promoting the Great Reset will fail. The grim and dark days we are now entering will (I predict) not exist by the 22nd Century and historians among our descendants will look upon these grand schemes---along with the failed utopian schemes of the 19th and 20th centuries---with the same mixture of sympathy and contempt that we now look upon the Dark Ages.