In a series of tweets posted yesterday, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former Papal Nuncio the United States, reminded people of some very disturbing and often ignored stories from only a few short years ago.
When emails belonging to the Democratic National Convention and Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign were leaked in 2016, a number of emails were particularly alarming with regards to the Catholic Church. Equally alarming were claims circulating about the Obama administration having ‘bugged’ the Papal Conclave in 2013 whilst also having allegedly put diplomatic pressure on Pope Benedict XVI.
The veracity of the former is indisputable, the latter is a little more complicated, even if there were some truth in it.
A centre of this is notorious Democratic Party adviser John Podesta.
Vigano writes:
In the same fashion that the Obama administration infiltrated and destabilised the Arab World, Podesta’s emails clearly stated setting up fake Catholic lobby groups to destabilise the church:
Vigano then also referenced the accusations surrounding Obama and Benedict XVI:
It is easy to dismiss some of this as conspiracy theory, but much of it has been proven as fact, especially with regards to interference of the Democratic Party under Obama/Podesta/Clinton. The last claim is often dismissed because it calls into question some of the issues with regards to the legitimacy of Pope Francis’s pontificate. But it is legitimate to assert that Obama’s administration could have placed pressure on Benedict XVI, even if his resignation was ultimately voluntary and hence binding.
That said, the image of the United States as inherently benign to Catholicism is one up for debate. Historically, it has been broadly antithetic towards it, its only Catholic President murdered in grotesque public fashion, only to be replaced by a well known Freemason. As recently as popes such as Leo XIII and Pius X, these topics were the most common discussions from the Bishop of Rome, now Catholics are made to feel like loons for bringing them up.
Not everything that Vigano says manages to escape some of the self indulgent fantasies of modern Americans in its tone, focusing far too heavily on President Trump, but in terms of content, the information related to the Democratic Part, John Podesta and Barack Obama needs scrutiny. This is especially so considering that the United States is now the Catholic Church’s most populace country and has immense power to either illuminate or corrupt the rest of the world, which, at the moment, it is mostly doing the latter of.