Trump went to the Pope’s funeral to pay his respects, but showed very little respect. From Lorenzo Maria Pacini at strategic-culture.su:
The bully of the moment played his game and left before the funeral was over. Not even enough time to sing a requiem.
“When one pope dies, another is made,” says an ancient Roman proverb. Life has a beginning and an end for everyone, inexorably. And so it was that at the funeral of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, the usual bandwagon of political figures from all walks of life paraded by.
Everyone was there: the Anglicans of the British crown, the Presbyterians of the American government, the self-styled Catholics of the Italian government, the Jews of the European Parliament, the high finance bankers, the coup plotters in green robes from Eastern Europe, the white-collar workers of globalism. All happy, in the front row, paying homage to their brother. Judging by the parade of participants, Bergoglio must have been a really good person…
If this is the yardstick, Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s pontificate leaves behind mainly ruins, completing in the West a process of erosion of the faith and of the Christian proposal that has its roots in time, accelerated by the Second Vatican Council, which reduced the decadent Church of Rome to a rotting swamp. The most naive had opened their hearts, doors, and windows wide; Francis’ reign has meant a further collapse of religious vocations, of participation in rituals—increasingly emptied of spiritual meaning—and of Christianity’s incisiveness in society. It is a dramatic balance sheet, aggravated by practical mass atheism and the Islamization of Europe, phenomena in the face of which Catholicism appears to be a spectator, if not an accomplice.
The media orgy accompanying Bergoglio’s death — prepared long in advance — is an almost unanimous symphony of praise, waves of rhetoric, and thunderous applause in a media-cultural-political climate with almost no dissenting voices. Clearly, personal suffering deserves respect; but in the face of history and the Petrine mission, Bergoglio’s nearly twelve years of pontificate appear as a painful climb to Calvary. It is not surprising that the most enthusiastic among his eulogists are often non-believers, secularists, and anti-clericals. The impact has been felt more in the civil and political world than in the religious world. Curious? No, not really, because the “Bergoglio style” has contributed to further distorting Western Christianity, dealing it yet another blow.
