PopeWatch: Leftist Captivity

And in the Church? Here too there is no lack of positioning subordinate to the ideology of the progressive elites, even if contradicted in words or opposed by widespread rebellions.

The go-ahead given by the Holy See at the end of 2023 to the blessing of homosexual couples raised protests from all the episcopal conferences of black Africa, as well as of significant portions of the Churches of other continents.

But although Pope Francis has repeatedly spoken out against “gender” ideology, the fact remains that public opinion perceives him as much more inclusive than exclusive. His image is that of a pope who opens the doors to “todos, todos, todos,” and abstains from any admonition or condemnation, in the name of his “Who am I to judge?”

Moreover, Francis’s profoundly anti-Western vision – well reconstructed in the recent book by the historian of Latin America Loris Zanatta: “Bergoglio. A political biography” – makes him sensitive to the theses of that “cancel culture” which wants to remove whole centuries of history, branding them as guilty en bloc. His ferocious wallops at the traditionalists also go toward building up his image as the initiator of an immaculate new course for the Church, hostile to a dark past for which the only thing to be asked is forgiveness.

One sensational surrender by the pope to “cancel culture” occurred during his trip to Canada in July 2022 (see photo).

The year before in that country there had been noisy speculation over the existence of mass graves with hundreds of indigenous children buried near Catholic and Anglican schools where they had been coerced and mistreated, separated from their families and tribes, in order to be “re-educated.” The graves had yet to be found and dug up, and a committee of inquiry was formed to ascertain the facts, but right away demands were put forward for the bishops and the pope to publicly ask forgiveness for the misdeed. Which promptly took place, with a repentant and contrite Francis speaking the harshest of words in Canada against colonialism and racism, of which the Church was also declared an accomplice, and even branding the massacre of those children as “genocide.”

All this without any proof of the real existence of those burials, to the point that after three years of research as dogged as it was totally fruitless, at the beginning of this month of March the government of Justin Trudeau closed the committee of inquiry. But shelving too the acts of arson and devastation carried out against more than a hundred churches, in retaliation for that presumed criminal behavior.

Another serious surrender to “cancel culture” was seen at work in the synod of the Amazon, in October 2019, this time as well against the colonialism in which the Church was supposedly complicit.

For Francis, in fact, one of the aims of that synod was to bring esteem to the tribes of the Amazon in their original innocence, in their bygone “buen vivir” in happy symbiosis between men and nature, before this was corrupted and tainted at the hands of the civil and ecclesiastical colonizers.

Except that in some tribes this paradisiacal “buen vivir” has been discovered to be made up even now of infanticide and of death inflicted on the elderly, carried out with the declared aim of ensuring a balance “in the dimensions of the family and in the size of groups,” and of “not forcing the spirit of the elderly to remain chained to the body, without being able any longer to spread its benefits to the rest of the family.”

Go here to read the rest.  With a few exceptions, our Pope who complains about ideology, has imposed upon the Church a Leftist Captivity.  Let us hope that this dies with the current Pope.