The war against the Pope

The underground war that is trying to distress Pope Francis derives from the sum of the interests of Vatican conservatives, together with the new racist, xenophobic and populist rights. The policy of the Argentine Pope, which is coherent within the prescriptions of the Gospel, appears to the right as the last real cultural obstacle, which is intended as a barrier to the influence of those who flow into the vast area of ​​Western-growing extremism. . The reason is political and also cultural: with the progressive political parties now occupied to chase liberalist tendencies and to worry about the aspects of finance, rather than those of the rights of the social parties that should defend, the role of the Church has filled the emptiness of representation and of the defense of values, which correspond to a substantial part of the instances that once belonged to the left. If this is true from the political point of view, it is even more so from the cultural one, where the absence of persons responsible for presiding over the defense of rights has allowed the growth of a right bearer of an ambiguous message, but able to exploit the disorientation of the poorer classes, left too often to fight alone and therefore without organization, the emergencies derived from globalization, which led to a substantial worsening of life. The right, the extreme one has exploited this isolation of the poorest parts of society, to address this discontent to even weaker subjects and exploiting this situation to encourage the growth of anti modernism, disguised as protection of traditions, this has led to the return of a conservatism which seemed to have been relegated to secondary positions. With this scenario present in the secular world, within the Catholic institutions the attempt to create the conditions for re-establishing an almost pre-council Catholicism is pursued in a constant manner. Already the resignation of the previous Pontiff had been provoked by internal wars to the highest hierarchies of the Catholic Church, with the advent of Pope Francis the discontent of a substantial part of the Vatican apparatus seems to be even more tangible. The enemies of Pope Francis come from the hierarchies nominated by Pope Wojtila, who try to direct the financial and sexual scandals against the current Pope, of which they are often responsible. Their vision, social and political is incompatible with the policies and programs implemented by Pope Francis, from which they are in sharp contrast. The welding of these Catholic environments with the extreme conservative right represents the natural consequence of an identity of views on social and political issues, which invest the future of Western societies. It does not seem random that the attack on the Pope to have covered the sexual crimes of the American sacedoti, arrives at the same time the availability of the Italian Church to the reception of a hundred migrants, involuntary protagonists of a showdown of Europe by the Minister of the Interior of the Italian Republic, one of the greatest European followers, along with the Catholic and Polish leaders, the theories of Trump's campaign strategist: Steve Bannon. His positions are well known and focus on xenophobic and sovereign theories that are the exact opposite of what a declared Catholic should be. To hide behind the religious observance the rejection of the migrants and the absolute economic and social inequality is a practice that can not be pursued if the main opponent is the Pope of Rome; what better way then than to try to discredit it with maneuvers that are easily unmasked. Both the Pope's adversaries who come from within Catholic institutions, and those who come from the outside world, rely on the poor preparation and low level of who is the recipient of these maneuvers; however, for example, the latest revelations on the presumed will to cover the sexual scandals by the Pope, are easily refuted if you look at who were nominated the protagonists of those atrocities. But the war seems to have just begun and it is easy to predict that the attacks on the Pope will increase and force him to engage directly against these adversaries and this could also be good for stopping the menacing advance of the more retiring right.