Posted on 02/05/2020 6:25:47 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME - European and American nationalists attending a conference Tuesday in Rome cheered Brexit, warned of left-wing “totalitarianism” and waxed nostalgic about St. John Paul II’s papacy and the “glorious revolution” that brought down communism.
The second annual National Conservatism Conference had “God, Honor, Country” as its theme. Rising right-wing stars from Italy and France were keynote speakers, and conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban closed out the meeting.
Organizer Christopher DeMuth drew applause when he blasted the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of political and business elites in Davos, Switzerland. The threat of authoritarianism doesn’t come from the right, DeMuth said, but the “globalist” media, political and university establishment of the left.
“We are called primitives, xenophobes, paranoids, racists. We are even called populists,” he said to laughter. He said today’s conservative nationalists are the “direct descendants and rightful heirs of the glorious revolution” of the 1980s that brought down the Iron Curtain.
Italian conservative Roberto de Mattei, a leading critic of Pope Francis and champion of John Paul, cited the condolences Francis offered after Cuba’s Fidel Castro died and a 2018 Vatican accord with China over Catholic bishop nominations as evidence that the Holy See supports communism under the Argentine pope.
“We must not be afraid to say that communism is still alive,” de Mattei said. “Because although the Soviet Union fell apart, the communist utopia continues to infect like a virus - a communist virus - western culture, media, politics and also the Catholic Church.”
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Is he speaking of Bernie Sanders?
Does a bear crap in the woods? Is the Pope a marxist?
Then he should state such, not vague general terms.
John Paul II is a true hero for all eternity
Cheering nationalism and then cheering on a globalist?
Bit confused aren’t they?
Behind the European bishops’ reluctance to acknowledge Brexit
Bad link...
Try this one:
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/behind-european-bishops-reluctance-to-acknowledge-brexit/
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