Biden, an adult Catholic, will free the Pope from the clutches of Viganò and the conservatives



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UNITED STATES – SEPTEMBER 24: Pope Francis, flanked from left by Vice President Joe Biden, and House Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, salute from the Speakers’ Balcony in the United States Capitol building after his speech at a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday, September 24, 2015 (Photo by Douglas Graham / CQ Roll Call)

Biden is the second Catholic to have been elected President of the United States after John Fitzgerald Kennedy, sixty years ago. Biden spoke openly about his faith during his inaugural address at the Democratic Convention in Milwaukee, explaining how important it was in helping him overcome the grievances he suffered throughout his life. At the beginning of the election campaign, his staff prepared a video showing a brief meeting in a general audience with Pope Francis as a papal “blessing” on his inauguration of the White House.

Over the weeks, the “Catholic” issue for Democrats has remained off the radar. But it is not just because of his personal faith that Biden’s victory “frees” Pope Francis from a possible checkmate, which can be hypothesized in the case of Trump’s victory.

For geopolitical reasons and for reasons “internal” to the Catholic Church, it restores the Throne of the world in some way in sync with the Altar. And thus it will somehow avoid the strong tensions that arose at the end of Ratzinger’s pontificate with the election of Obama and in the years of Trump’s presidency for Francis.

Who doesn’t remember Steve Bannon’s sovereign initiatives? The alliance with the “conservative” cardinals (starting with Cardinal Burke), gradually halted after leaving the White House until the recent arrest in connection with financial crimes related to the construction of the anti-immigrant wall with Mexico? The alliance in Italy with Matteo Salvini, the politician with the “My Pope is Benedict” shirt?

The Catholic vote (26 percent of the population) was decisive for Obama’s victories, but in recent years the United States has become increasingly polarized: because “moving” to the right for an American Catholic has also meant distancing himself from Pontificate of Francis.

The propaganda of the ex-nuncio Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò has struck for more than two years, since August 2018, against the Pope, whose resignation he has repeatedly requested. Viganò has prayed for Trump’s re-election and won public support from Trump himself. While in an unprecedented move, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in late September accused the Vatican of immorality for its diplomatic agreements with China regarding the election of bishops.

This process has now stopped with the victory of Biden.

Given that the Catholic Church has coexisted and coexisted for two thousand years with the most different political and power systems, one cannot fail to see the greater proximity of Biden’s agenda in terms of multilateralism, Europe, safeguarding nature against change. climate (The last act of the Trump presidency at the polls already closed the termination of the Paris Agreement) reception of migrants etc.

Pope Francis in October, the last month of the US electoral campaign, intervened with three “plays” that indicated a clear path. The encyclical “All Brothers” (on brotherhood and social friendship) the agreement with Beijing (of a purely religious nature, as specified by the Vatican), the appointment of the Archbishop of Washington Wilton Daniel Gregory, new cardinal in the consistory that will take place later this month, and that he publicly speaks out against Trump’s instrumental use of the pontificate of John Paul II and the Bible. Three movements that have further dispersed the image of a “militant” Church that needs the support of power.

An old Italian proverb states that “whoever eats Pope, breaks.” The American strategists at Francisco’s siege are just the latest example.



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