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BY MAUREEN MULLARKEY ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
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The road show is over. The spectacle flamed up and subsided, a Roman candle of demonic sanctimony. Think
of it as pre-game warm-up for the main event: the global climate summit in Paris, November 30 to
December 11. The Vatican is partnering with the Obama administration, at the U.N. and later in Paris, in
magnifying state control over a free society and tightening the screws on the developed world. This, in the
name of saving the planet from the production and growth of those very means by which the poor can raise
themselves out of poverty.
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Our obligation to charitycaritasis bound to the truth of thingsin veritate. There is little truth in the
aggressively promoted patchwork of contested science and hysteria that fuel apocalyptic prophecies. Yet
the Vatican and Our Man in Havana militate against the imagined enemy of climate change while an actual,
advancing one slaughters the faithful in its path.
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Catholics are doubly burdened. The intellectual squalor of our secular administration is mirrored in a
preening Vatican faction that adds moral indigence to the equation. The modern state is exempt from any
mandate to lead us toward a transcendent end. That is the work of the Churchan unsurpassable, crowning
mission addressed to the poor and the prosperous alike. But this pontificate makes an idol of The Poor, an
abstraction by which it justifies its own rancor toward the developed world. It gives evidence of a mind fed
on tracts by statist ideolaters who muddle distinction between the material and the transcendent. Worse, it
squanders the moral authority of the Church on an unholy alliance with corrupt or rent-seeking regimes
that relinquish their own responsibility for the conditions of those they govern. It is an ominous confederacy
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Does there exist anything more Western than a self-flagellating urge to indict the West? A guilty son of the
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European stock that was once the pride and driving force of Buenos Aires, Francis resents the Wests
affluence, scorns its freedom, curses it. He will scald it however he can. Pascal Bruckner, writing two
decades ago, anticipated the vanity of Western self-hatred lurking in this pontificate:
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sympathy, good will, candor. This is the paternalism of the guilty conscience: seeing ourselves as
the kings of infamy is still a way of staying on the crest of history.
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Icannot not help but wonder if this week-long showcase of misdirected sermonizing, and often ambiguous
pieties, signaled the de-Christianization of the Catholic Church. Were we witnessing the descent of
Catholicism into one more ism, an ideology using language onto which an audience could project its own
meaning? After Cuba, the non-stop showboating, pageantry, and preachments in the wrong places took on
the look of a Faustian bargain between the Vatican and cynical brokers of worldly prestigean exchange of
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truth (including that of the gradual but ongoing diminishment of poverty) for power.
H. L. Mencken understood the world better than our bien pensant hierarchy: The urge to save humanity is
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On the eve of Francis address to the joint session of Congress, I wrote an essay for The Federalist. Permit
me to repeat a portion of it here:
Ideolatry, the idolatry of fixed ideas, is as rampant in the Vatican as in any other directorate. And
just as dangerous. Even more so. Because the pope commands deference from the worlds peoples,
the present object of his worshipfrom climate change dogma to the antagonisms peculiar to an
anti-democratic Leftist elitedisfigures the faith of billions. It becomes a golden calf festooned
with Gospel quotes.
. . . There comes a moment when deference glides into collusion. At that point, we all become Good
Germans. Fascist-friendly. Trust in respected authority curdles into a thing entirely differenta
willed blindness to something dark in the particular voice commanding assent. Decent and
dependable, we incline toward the beckoning circle of connivance.
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It was not necessary to listen to a scrupulously written, edited, and rewritten product scripted for media
consumption. Not a single word of it could annul Francis assent to celebrate Mass under a triumphal image
of Che Guevara:
Something in me gave way at the sight of an exultant image of Che Guevara overseeing the altar in
Plaza de la Revolucin, approved site of the papal Mass in Havana. A sadistic, murderous thug
looked down on attendees in an obscene burlesque of Christ Pantocrator. Under the gaze of a
butcher, and amid symbols of the regime, Jorge Bergolio joined his fellow Argentine in service to
the calamitous Cuban revolution. The entire spectacle played like a farcical inversion of John Paul
IIs presence in Warsaws Victory Square, in 1979, and in stark contrast to the message he brought
to Cuba in 1998.
[The Federalist essay in its entirety is here.]

Marc Thiessen, writing on September 22 for the American Enterprise Institute, compared the homilies of
the two popes. His essay, In Havana, Pope Francis is no John Paul, notes the number of times John Paul
used the words freedom (17 times) and justice (13 times). Francis did not use either word even once.
Thiessen quotes generously from John Paul. He closes with this:
Pope Francis said nothing even resembling this during his Cuban visit. He is not expected to be so
reticent during his visit to Washington. But then, as the [Washington] Post correctly notes, it takes
more fortitude to challenge a dictatorship than a democracy.
Even without a TV it was impossible to completely avoid the flood of images we swim in. Screens are
everywhere. One other image touched an unwelcome chord. MSNBC scanned the crush of spectators at the
airport in Philadelphia, almost everyone with an arm raised to hold a camera phone over head. An innocuous
gesture in itself, viewed en bloc it recalls the old Fascist salute, parodied this time by the grip on a camera. In
the wake of Francis newly released motu proprio, the analogy struck me as having a discomforting purchase
on reality.
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We do not need a Leni Riefenstahl or a Ministry of Popular Culture any more. We have the promotional
tentacles of a 24/7 media doing their job. CNN Newsource hawked its Pope Francis Visit Coverage Plan to
other stations at $350 for 5-minute window or $300 per media feed:
CNN Newsource is giving you a front seat to the historic trip of Pope Francis to Cuba and the U.S.
in September. Whether you send a crew to join us on location or book a live shot with a CNN
correspondent, CNN Newsource gives you the flexibility to book a bundle of shots or onsite
services at discounted pricing. Contact your Newsource Sales representative today for details.
Circus-as-news is the bread and butter of the 24/7 media bubble that passes as an organ of information.
Time Warner Cable dedicated its own local news channel to the papal visit. If that was not enough, The New
York Times reported:
The papal channel will be available to Time Warners subscribers in New York and more than two
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The papal channel will be available to Time Warners subscribers in New York and more than two
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dozen other markets around the country, 15 million households in all. It will also be available online
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Americans are still a religious people. Yes, we are. But the adulation of crowds testified equally, perhaps
more, to the strength of celebrity culture and its susceptibility to media promotion. Here was yet another
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Maureen Mullarkey is a painter who writes on art and culture. Her essays have appeared
in various publications, among them: The Nation, Crisis, Commonweal, Hudson Review, Arts, The
New Criterion, First Things, The Weekly Standard, and The Magazine Antiques. She was a
columnist for The New York Sun.
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