Courtiers to the Rulers of This World

Why do you think the Vatican and bishops almost without exception have tended to be publicly silent about these discriminatory and, some would say, totalitarian policies, especially when the vaccines’ efficacy in preventing transmission remains debatable (the number of COVID cases is rising in Austria, Germany and other countries despite widespread vaccination) and when the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled against mandatory vaccination in December 2020?

Bishops and priests are ministers of reconciliation of people with God (2 Corinthians 5:19) and of reconciliation of people with one another (Lumen Gentium 1; 21; 28). Their mission and authority come from Jesus Christ, and they are made effective in the Holy Spirit. 

Servants of Christ in the apostolic ministry must not offer themselves as courtiers to the rulers of this world and make themselves their propagandists. According to our Catholic faith, the pope, besides being the first witness of the supernatural revelation of God in Jesus Christ, is also the supreme guardian of the natural moral law. The Church’s magisterium is therefore entitled and obliged to point out the limits of temporal power, which ends at the freedom of faith and conscience. 

Go here to read the rest.  There is much wrong about this Pontificate, but most of it can be summed up in the general desire of the Pope to be a chaplain for the powerful, whether that power be China or that wielded by the chattering classes of the West.  Often the Pope is portrayed as a radical.  That is a mistake.  In his orientation to uphold the powers that be in this world, the Pope has been all too eager to make the Church a servant and ally of Caesar.