Thursday, May 02, 2019

The Church and the US Government

Did the Catholic Church prefigure the United States?

Imagine a society enfeebled by constant, top-down, progressivist experimentation offering universal, programmatic solutions to problems that are either inherently localist or transcendent. Imagine an intellectual elite who are arrogantly uninterested in—and perhaps conscientiously deaf to—the concerns of ordinary, working-class people. Imagine a media that serves as a microphone for this elite, actively avoiding stories that don’t harmonize with their enlightened narrative.

This probably sounds a bit like the milieu that resulted the cultural distemper of the 2016 presidential election and that still largely defines American politics today. It is also, interestingly, a description of the liturgical changes imposed upon the Catholic Church in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, as painfully described in A Bitter Trial, a series of correspondences between English Catholic writer Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan....

So.........the US electorate, disgusted with the Prissy Twit Republicans and the Dictatorial Democrats, elected a whole 'nother kind of President and a small but noteworthy and fanatical supporting cast in the Congress.

The Church, on the other hand, doesn't have elections......so the Church got a Pope who is pushing various heresies which are just about as popular with the remaining Catholic faithful as the 'civilian' versions pushed by the GloboHomo perverts and GloboEye-Slam terrorists here.

Go long on popcorn and prie-dieux.

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