Religion, Nations, and Geopolitical Review: Saturday June 1

  by A. Joseph Lynch and Dr. David Pence

THE WEEKLY BRIEF
EUROPE AND CHRIST
None of the resurgent European nations want to "leave Europe."  Europe's great strength is that she is a  consort of Christian nations.  She is not meant to be  a post modern bureaucracy built on "shared Judaeo-Christian values" which cannot mention the Living God much less pray to Him. She is meant for a wider and deeper alliance as the continental nations.   Christianity like each of the nations is a living organism. Christianity embraces Africa also as  a new home of Christian nations. How these states are going to take shape is not clear. But the problem of organizing productive and protective states is their political problem and it will not be solved by their people migrating to Europe.  When Christians see mass migration, we should stop blaming stable countries for protecting their hard won and precarious social order. We should look to the lands that are failing their people. They are  in need of religious renewal, political reform or, in some cases, outside intervention to establish public order.  ( In the Americas we have a similar problem as Europe and Africa. Catholic countries of Central America with degenerate church leadership like  Cardinal Maradiaga of Honduras  are blaming  Protestant America for not taking in their refugees.  Homosexual influenced  US bishops  like Pates, Kikanas and Cupich lead the American episcopacy into blaming the North American Father figure.  The corrupt Church leadership in  Honduras (9 million)led by the embezzling Maradiaga is  failing their people.  Not a word from his fellow clerics.  Blame Trump and border walls!!  Get a quote from the Pope!! The Catholic bishops should stop playing blame the gringo with the lives of the poor. They should speak truth to power  and assign responsibility to the corrupt and self centered political and ecclesial leadership of the Central American countries.)
  The Pope and the populist nations of Europe  are in a similar deadlocked conversation blaming  stable European nations for not receiving the victims of  an unhinged Muslim South(especially Libya). The conversation is not helping the nations or the refugees. It is certainly not helping a reemergence of a Christian alternative to the atheism of the globalist West. It is  not fostering the political order of stable Muslim nations. It is not addressing  the  jihad driven failed states of the Muslim South.  We need Mary, the Untied of Knots, to help each side from pulling harder and harder against his brother.
 The era of Anglo American dominance in Europe through NATO is coming to an end. Britain will leave the EU and then England, Scotland and Ireland will determine which alliances will best serve their nations in the coming century. THE BRITISH  EMPIRE HAS NEVER BEEN A PART OF THE EUROPEAN LAND NATIONS. THEY HAVE BEEN THE FOIL OF WHATEVER NATION ROSE ON THE CONTINENT. The sleeping giant of Germany will soon  awaken as a Christian nation. What that happy return to the Father's house will look like is a glorious Easter surprise still to come. Christianity is not only the cement that holds together the nations of Europe. It is their Way to peace with Russia, Serbia, and the Eastern nations. Christianity is the guide to  new postcolonial relations with the emerging peoples of Africa. The Pope says we should let ourselves "be surprised by God". The surprise is that those wall building nationalists are bringing Christ back to Europe.

I. POPE FRANCIS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

THE LOCAL CHURCH UNDER ARCHBISHOP SCICLUNA: Laymen of Malta ask Archbishop Scicluna to discipline high-ranking Malta priest defending homosexuality as a positive created good. Scicluna is a pivotal enforcer in the Vatican strategy against clergy sex abuse. Pope Francis has centered clergy reform on local bishops and reform of  bishops on metropolitans. How Scicluna as a local bishop dealing with tolerance and practice of homosexuality among priests is not a peripheral issue.

LYING FOR GOD - POPE FRANCIS, ARCHBISHOP VIGANO, MR. MCCARRICK: Rod Dreher has his summary of the latest Vatican documents  about Cardinal McCarrick. The documents are real. They seem to implicate McCarrick and Cardinal Wuerl much more than Pope Francis. The letters  clearly show that McCarrick was rebuked and forbidden to do several public actions including traveling to Rome and living with seminarians. The documents  showed that while McCarrick changed his residence (with help from Wuerl) he never abided with any other restrictions. Thus the idea that Francis "lifted restrictions" or in any way "restored McCarrick" is false. You can't lift restrictions that were never enacted. In fact Wuerl lived in a parish house associated again with his favorites-- young male seminarians-the IVE seminarians. He went from a house with mostly white guys to a house with mostly brown guy-not quite prayer and fasting. As the Pope Francis Vatican tightened the rope on McCarrick,  Italian newspapers starting asking questions about the failed oversight  of Pope Benedict and his papa nuncio Vigano. Those damning questions united with evidence that American papa nuncio Vigano had stymied the investigation of homosexual seminarian loving Archbishop John Nienstedt  needed to be squashed. Vigano and the  rich American Francis hating press did a good job of smearing the pope in English. They had a friend in a Francis hating Italian journalist. The story is not playing as  well in other languages.

The source is Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo - a shady character if there ever was one. Rod Dreher sees here another vindication of Archbishop Vigano. It is a vindication of many of his statements about Curial figures and Wuerl. It actually diminishes his charges against Francis. Mr. Dreher thinks that Archbishop Vigano has much more credibility than Pope Francis. He says it is absurd to even ask the question comparing the credibility of the men. When  Archbishop Vigano released his accusatory testimony against Pope Francis (August, 2018) his actions as American papal nuncio and the effete rule of Pope Benedict were being exposed in Italy. Vigano's successful misdirection was buttressed by an eloquent exposure of the huge Vatican homosexual network which Vigano had observed for decades. Vigano's devastating and explicit account of high ranking clerics surrounding the last three popes remains a great service to the Church. However Vigano grossly misread the influence of McCarrick on the Pope. reading McCarrick's correspondence shows him to be self aggressing sycophant. he and Vigano attribute an importance of McCarrick  to international church relations that no-one else shares. Pope Francis ended the priesthood of McCarrick. Vigano and Pope Benedict gave him full rein. McCarrick's real institutional clout was with Catholic Relief Services and the American State Department. That wasn't restricted in the papacy of Benedict or embellished in the time of Francis. Vigano keeps calling the Pope a liar. We don't say Vigano is a lair only because it appears he is the last man on earth who really believes Cardinal McCarrick was a major player in the Francis papacy. Cardinals Wuerl and Maradiaga are significant deceivers  close to the throne. Isn't that enough?
Those of us who know the Archdiocese of Mpls-St Paul well are not as enamored with the credibility and rectitude of Vigano the truth-teller. Predator Homosexual Archbishop John Nienstedt owes his daily sacrilegious Mass to the Italian millionaire. Pope Francis has rendered McCarrick a Mister and the American conservative lynch mob trusts the high rolling Italian cleric in hiding. The misdirection of self-serving rich clerics and Wizard of Oz journalists once again turns our eyes from the searing poverty, nuclear confrontation, and Western atheism which the Church as a united body under our Holy Father should be transforming. A new interview with a Mexican journalist.  She pressed on Cardinal Maradiaga who Francis says is a victim of calumny. With evidence the pope has changed before on that defense. Let us hope the Maradiaga hoax is exposed next.  This story its not verified but it should not surprise us that the left will get at the pompous cardinal before the Church.

II. PRESIDENT TRUMP AND AMERICA

SAUDI ARABIA AND UAE GET ARMS: Congress gets bypassed - 8 billion dollar deal.

WHAT HAPPENED TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FOREIGN POLICY? An excellent historical analogy of the globalist characters and ideologies obscuring a Trumpian nationalist foreign policy. Pompeo, Cotten, and Claremont. The writer is from Catholic University and has offered several serious critiques of the American foreign policy blob (as President Obama and Ben Rhodes called it).

III. THE NATIONS

IN SYRIA, FALSE FLAGS AND COVER UPS FROM BUREAUCRATIC OFFICIALS, MEDIA: The Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons recently issued a report that pushes the narrative Assad air bombed his people with chemical weapons. We at AoA have always found it suspicious that Assad would do such a thing seemingly hours after President Trump announced the US was withdrawing. The chemical bombing led to a US-led retaliatory airstrike against Assad and forced the president to re-think his decision to withdraw. Assad and Russia have both insisted a "false flag" had taken place - that ISIS or some other actor planted the chemical canisters knowing Assad would be blamed. An unreleased portion of the OPCW report was recently leaked online. The portion, conveniently omitted from the official release, comes from those who went to the sites where the two canisters were found. The investigators tell us that there is “higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft”. So it appears after all that Assad didn't chemically bomb his own people. The OPCW has authenticated the leaked document and said they will not be answering any follow up questions about its contents. The war-mongering, anti-Assad, anti-Russia media are happy to keep their questions to themselves.

RUSSIA AND THE US: The role of Ambassador McFaul in making liberalism work in Russia. Trading Yeltsin for Putin was great for the nation of Russia. It was the end of the Clinton-Obama-Clinton dream for A liberal, western, pliable Russia. Another ideologue from the Academy runs into a nation-state and a male nation-man. This article is called political journalism.

INDIA, BRAZIL, CHINA, PHILLIPINES, JAPAN, HUNGARY, RUSSIA, USA: Conservative nationalists in India and Philippines show this movement is solidifying not waning. The globalist press weeps. Nationalism is not a move to isolation. It is an international movement-among nations. 

ITALY: Meet Mateo Salvini.  Salvini entrusted Italy to Mary, raised up the rosary, and called on protection from Europe's six patrons. Italian bishops and Vatican officials were not happy. The US has MAGA, the Italians have Lega - Salvini's Italian League. Lega wins (areas colored green):

EUROPE: Saving Europe by returning to Christianity - Christian nationalists vs. the globalist West.

ISRAEL, JEWS, THE LEFT: The Left Against Zion - a great historical romp.

MILITIAS RETURN TO IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN FROM SYRIA: In Afghanistan the Shia Hazaras will have more weight as the country jockeys for the military regional control which will be the basis of governance. Afghanistan has 35 million people. 7-15% are Shia and one half million are ethnic Hazaras.

IV. CULTURE OF LIFE, CULTURE OF PROTECTION

THE THALES MODEL - TEACH CLASSICS AND THE CRAFTS: Rachel Lu's modest proposal.

CULT OF GRETA: The Greens have a young female icon - the young make a claim of special wisdom because they will be here for the coming catastrophe while the old irresponsible grown ups will have just died off. They have a generational case against the baby boomers. This cry for help is not quite an articulated closing argument.

MONKEYS AND VIOLENCE IN INDIA: Loosen the bonds and a killer emerges. A history of "political correctness" - excellent monograph on the strategy of cultural Marxists.

SEXUAL CHAOS IN THE US MILITARY: The Army asks, "How has serving impacted you?" and the responses were not so great. Many women report problems with sexual harassment and assault. VP Pence gave the West Point commencement address, using "ladies and gentlemen" language in addressing the 2019 class repeatedly as "men and women" while applauding the year's large number of Hispanic and black women graduates. He let the "men and women" know that: "It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life. You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen." Perhaps we should reconsider women in the military rather than continue putting their lives on the line in battle and risking them being sexually assaulted at home or abroad  Pence's severe case of gender confusion should lead us to hope Presdient Trump is never successfully impeached and removed from office.

CANDIDATE BUTTIGIEG: The Buttigieg Delusion - it takes one to know one. In the first link a homosexual Republican lets the world in on a very poorly kept secret - the black community is not all that into homosexuality as a civil rights cause. They see it more as an embarrassing dysfunction set against the morality of Biblical Christianity. Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg of South Bend has his own roots in cultural Marxism. His dad Joseph Buttigieg was an English prof at Notre Dame and founding member of the International Gramsci Society. Another glaring example of how the Catholic priesthood and our beautiful powerful Catholic male institutions which they controlled became the vanguard of the sexual left. The strategy at Notre Dame was to hire faculty with East Coast prestige instead of Catholic fidelity. The priest academic provost who helped remake Notre Dame from a backward Catholic football power into a modern University was a homosexual predator.

Joseph Buttigieg died Jan 27, 2019. From South Bend Obituary: Joseph Buttigieg was a professor emeritus of English and retired director of the Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program at Notre Dame. He joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1980, according to a news release from the university. He also was a fellow in Notre Dame's Nanovic Institute for European Studies and Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and director of the university's Stamps Scholars Program. Joseph Buttigieg grew up on the Mediterranean island of Malta, earning bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Malta, a second bachelor's degree from Heythrop College in London and his doctorate from the State University of new York at Binghamton, according to Notre Dame. Joseph Buttigieg directed the Hesburgh-Yusko program from its first year in 2010 through 2017. The program is a merit-based scholarship and leadership development initiative. It is named for the late Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, Notre Dame's former longtime president.

Hillaire Belloc on Buttigieg:

Hilaire Belloc 1870-1953

“The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. In a word, the Barbarian... can befog and destroy but  he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that has been true.

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.”

Pete Buttigieg and Chris Wallace at Town Hall in New Hampshire High School 2019