Patrick Buchanan weighs in on Bishop Cupich's declaration of surrender and a Papacy of polling numbe
Posted by David Werling
It is the editorial that all of us traditionalists have been waiting for from Patrick Buchanan. We knew it would be coming, sooner or later. After all, one of America's most high profile Catholic traditionalists, and arguably the last true paleoconservative political commentator, could ignore the mess of the Bergoglio papacy for only so long.
Here it is: Papal Neutrality in the Culture War.
Yet here is further confirmation His Holiness seeks to move the Catholic Church to a stance of non-belligerence, if not neutrality, in the culture war for the soul of the West.
There is a small problem with neutrality. As Trotsky observed, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” For the church to absent itself from the culture war is not to end that war, but to lose it.
Approaching it not so much as a traditionalist, but as a Pro-Life Catholic (though it is impossible to separate the fact that the latter is a causal effect of the former), I'm singularly aware, as are many others, of the problems that have become more than apparent with the Bergoglio papacy. His troublesome words have cut our legs out from under us, and the recent decision to legalize "marriage" for homosexual depravity in Illinois is a good example of how Pope Francis has done just that. However, what was so shocking about Bishop Blase Cupich's comments is the capitulation at the heart of the declaration that "Pope Francis doesn't want cultural warriors."
I was in the process of writing a short piece about these words and the election of Kurtz to head up the ever increasingly irrelevant USCCB, but I'm glad that Patrick Buchanan picked up on this as his audience is far wider than mine.___________________________________________________________________
Allow me to humbly add, though, that while I know from personal experience that Cupich is one of the most despicably political prelates in the United States, there's little suspicion on my part that he is faithfully (and joyfully) conveying the words of the papal nuncio. The Bergoglio papacy and the stance of modern churchmen like Cupich marks a definitive end to the social movement laid out by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas, and effectively the fight for the souls of Western men on the part of the institutional Church dominated as it is by the Vatican II establishment. The social movement of Christ the King was effectively combated from the first, revealing the extent to which Modernism had already infiltrated the ranks of the clergy and the Catholic universities in the early twentieth century, but now we have arrived at a definitive defeat for the social movement of Christ the King, among, at least, the mainstream, Vatican II establishment.________________________________________________________________________________________
Now that the churchmen have abandoned the banner of Christ the King, given Western culture over to the neo-pagans once and for all, and declared surrender in the fight for souls, Cupich can get back to what is really important to prelates of his ilk: public image.
Link: full article: arsorandi.blogspot.com/…/patrick-buchana…
