The century of the global multipolar very sick to the first institution with a global history of mankind, the doubly ancient Catholic Church. His diplomacy was the most subtle and able of the known world.
visible His head and head of state, the most influential and prestigious. Although Stalin sarcastically asked for the number of armored divisions of Vatican, his heirs bit the dust first in Poland and then elsewhere in the Communist bloc by the grace, among others, the Pope's most militant and media of the twentieth century, was Karol Wojtyla. But after so great a show of force, the lessons of humility that is receiving official Catholicism and the hierarchy can not be bitter. internationally
Rome is back on all fronts, which need not be beneficial for the international balance and even less for multilateralism. The Vatican has commitments and letters to play in the Middle East, but its weakness in many cases it unable to act effectively. The situation of Christian communities of the Arab and Muslim world, persecuted and even depleted in some countries, is becoming more dramatic.
The Vatican, however, seems more concerned and more active by the crucifixes in the European public schools for the protection of his flock in that part of the world. Islamophobic
The temptation is so strong as dangerous to official Catholicism. Vaticanists ideologues pose the relationship with Islam in terms of a competition to maintain hegemony in the world and especially in Europe. In a defensive position very close to the idea of \u200b\u200ba clash of civilizations. Kickback occurs not only by the sometimes violent pressure of radical Islam. It also takes place peacefully in Latin America, increasingly penetrated by the Anglo-Saxon Christian sects.
The temptation is so strong as dangerous to official Catholicism. Vaticanists ideologues pose the relationship with Islam in terms of a competition to maintain hegemony in the world and especially in Europe. In a defensive position very close to the idea of \u200b\u200ba clash of civilizations. Kickback occurs not only by the sometimes violent pressure of radical Islam. It also takes place peacefully in Latin America, increasingly penetrated by the Anglo-Saxon Christian sects.
In this context, there is no doubt that the scandal of pedophile priests is more corrosive to the prestige, finances and even the confidence of the Church hierarchy itself. The eruption of the scandal in the Catholic Belgium, with the arrest for a few hours of the entire bishops' conference and the court ordered desecration of the graves of two cardinals, promises to be a terrible saga of unpredictable consequences. A Supreme Court ruling American diplomatic immunity rejecting the church authorities, including Pope has given the green light to all types of financial claims and even criminal at the time of accountability and compensation for the pedophile to the entire chain of command. As background, the nasty case of Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, whose biography just came out in Spain, finished putting the entire church hierarchy in an impossible situation.
A 83-year old theologian is stale and shabby chairs institution. The once brilliant intellectuals and diplomats church have disappeared, replaced by gray bureaucrats incapable of understanding the world in which they live and ready, however, to cover up the worst and most evil crimes of their priests. With few exceptions, the European Christian Democrat parties, so well translated in terms of political influence the interests of the Catholic community have been replaced by stas populi parties.
The intense media planetary projection of the Church under Pope Wojtyla has resulted now in the dark and depressing stage of the recent history of the Church and papacy in a great difficulty in adapting to the new global world.
For Lluís Bassets. Post
RLB. Political points.
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