Mike Pompeo in Biden and Catholicism, by Massimo Faggioli

On Foreign Policy: Criticized Vatican for renewing outreach with China

The Trump presidency introduced tensions unprecedented in the history of relations between the US and the Vatican; this was an index of divergent long-term trajectories. Pope Francis's particular attention to building bridges with Islam, and the pivots towards Asia, are part of a long-term vision for global Catholicism.

Newt Gingrich and Steve Bannon forged relationships with prelates who opposed Francis in a political project aimed at subverting the establishment order both in Europe, and in the Catholic Church. The idea was to introduce the pathogen of Trumpism into the symbolic and administrative heart of Catholicism, to make Rome the parallel capitol of a new anti-European and anti-Francis continent. That project, undertaken between 2018 and 2019, failed. Its epitaph was the extraordinary attack in October 2020 by Secretary of State Pompeo against the diplomacy of the Holy See for the renewal of the provisional agreement of September 2018 with China [on supporting Catholicism in China].

Source: Biden and Catholicism, by Massimo Faggioli, p. 69 Jan 20, 2021

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