Pope Francis hated Trump, but justified Putin. How will his successor be set up?
Donald Trump has announced that he is « cheerful » to the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome.
This choice of words is certainly inappropriate, but therefore completely typical, even somewhat expected of the US president, who was often targeted by the Vatican for his anti -immigration policy, as well as whose ultra -conservative, fundamentalist clerical Maga I despised the Pope, the Vatican and the Catholic Church.
Just as Hitler’s Nazis despised the Catholic Church and the Vatican.
Hate, mostly, was mutual: Trump and his movement despised Pope Francis, Pope Francis despised Trump and his politics.
With Russia and Vladimir Putin, however, there was another story.
Putin before Zelensky
« I have to go to Moscow first, I have to meet Putin first, » Pope Francis said on one occasion, launching an avalanche of criticism, charges and conflicts with Ukraine and her political leadership, but also encountered an open wonder of Western politicians and European statesmen.
The Study Voices today accuse Pope Francis of being prophesied oriented that he has not sufficiently condemned Russian aggression, and even publicly recycled Russian propaganda regarding the three -year brutal war in Ukraine.
The biggest storm was caused by his statement that Ukraine « would have to have the courage of the white flag » and negotiate the end of the war with Russia, and that Western allies « should give up the ambition to defeat Russia and should recognize the mistake in the Ukrainian war. » « NATO barking » on the Russian door, Pope Francis said, may have led to Vladimir Putin’s invasion in Ukraine.
Great Russia
The Argentine Pope also mentioned the « great mother of Russia » and the former Russian emperors Peter the Great and Katarina II, which seemed to be the magnification of Russian imperialism and finally led to the tightened relationships with Ukraine.
Instead of condemning Putin’s aggression, Pope Francis compared the Ukrainian war to the Civil War in Rwanda.
The leader of the Catholic Church had a major problem with the moral leadership of the Ukrainian war, as the condemnation of the aggressor, approximately the trace of the controversial heritage of Pope Pius XII during World War II, which is still the subject of scientific research and a source of criticism and controversy today.
How, according to Putin, Trump, but also other worldwide autoctures and dictators, decisive in the suppression of liberal democracy, human rights and freedom, will be placed by the Vatican when choosing the heir to Pope Francis?
Between two fires
The Vatican found itself between two autocracy, those of Putinova and the growing Trump, in the middle of Europe, which is between two fires, in the midst of Trump’s and Putin’s threats, not only Europe, but also in other countries.
Eighty years ago, the Vatican was mostly silently accompanied by Nazi Holocaust, largely ignored the suffering of Jews, all of which, due to the growing fear of what he considered an even greater threat of communism that he filed from Soviet Russia.
Today, the Vatican is expected to have a greater impact, moral and politically, in relation to the new Russian imperial fascism, as well as the ultra -conservative Nazism that gains strength under the guidance of Donald Trump and under which many Catholic believers are killed these days.
Dictatorship
Although he collaborated with the Nazis, the fascists and their allies after World War II, the Vatican traditionally represented a nuisance, and even a threat to dictators, because with his influence he defied state sovereignty and authority that laid down the despots and autocrats over their states and citizens. Hitler, for example, despised the Catholic Church because it defied its power.
Today, the new Pope should position each other between the free world and the world that dictators want to obey. Will the Vatican tact as Pope Francis, criticizing Trump, but saving Putin? Will they show compassion for migrants, but not to Ukrainian civilians by which Russian ballistic missiles spit?
Solidarity with gauze
Pope Francis publicly expressed solidarity with victims in Gaza and said that « bombing children is cruelty, not war. » « I have to say that because it affects me in the heart, » Pope Francis said, causing Israel’s reaction. At the same time, he challenged the criticism of Ukraine for not having sufficiently condemned Russian aggression.
Today, the Vatican is almost in the same position as a hundred years ago, surrounded by growing fascist and Nazi movements, as well as aggressor and genocidal wars, facing the demolition of the global order, but even today it has failed to stop or significantly influence such processes.
Pope Francis lastered too much in his calibration of moral compass, as his predecessors in the long history of the Catholic Church, in defining and selecting the right side in conflicts, relativizing the guilt of the aggressor and marginalizing the victim of the aggression.
So if Donald Trump says he « cheers » to go to the Pope’s funeral, Vladimir Putin could regret the Pope’s view of his aggressor war in Ukraine.
