Did Obama admin oust the pope?

Monello

Smarter than the average bear
PREMO Member
Could any 2 leaders of the church be so different than Benedict & Francis?

[FONT=&quot]According to Dottori, Obama was eager to dethrone Benedict XVI for two reasons. On the one hand, his presidency was close to fundamentalist Islam ([/FONT]de facto [FONT=&quot]fostered by regime change in Libya and Egypt and civil war in Syria, provoked by U.S. former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy design), whereas Ratzinger, ever since his famous [/FONT]Regensburg lecture[FONT=&quot], had been identified internationally as a strong opponent of Islamism. On the other hand, Obama was worried about the Church’s reconciliatory efforts toward Moscow’s Orthodox patriarch, within the scope – Dottori wrote – “of a geopolitical project aimed at European-Russian integration, actively supported by Germany and Italy.”
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[FONT=&quot]The Obama administration may have resorted to two instruments: fostering scandals within the Church and the Italian government and threatening to drain away Italian and Vatican financial resources. Italy was at risk of being excluded from international financial markets. The menace against the Vatican was to bar the IOR (Istituto per le Opere di Religione, the Vatican bank) from the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) network. Taking as an excuse the fact that the IOR did not abide by international rules of transparency, Deutsche Bank (which runs point-of-sale payment systems in the Vatican and was suspected by Bankitalia of hosting an IOR account where all money earned within the Vatican converged) had been induced to block all ATMs in Vatican City, a service curiously reactivated, Dottori noticed, right after Pope Benedict’s abdication.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]On the other hand, the Obama administration was likely to be frightened by Pope Benedict’s conservative stance on the liturgy, morals, and politics. A conservative pope, in a moment when the Church’s aid was no more required to fight communism in the Soviet Union – and Russia was becoming a conservative nation – could mean an undesired, and politically dangerous, rightist breakthrough for American Catholics and an unseen convergence between religious conservatives in the U.S. and Russia.
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[FONT=&quot]That Obama’s fear was well informed is apparent, since Donald Trump won the Catholic vote in the 2016 election in spite of a progressive pope who almost openly endorsed Hillary Clinton, and despite Catholics’ leftward turn in the two previous elections of 2008 and 2012.

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[FONT=&quot]The message from the Vatican is clear: according to Pope Francis, good American Catholics should vote for Democrats again. [/FONT]

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b23hqb

Well-Known Member
PREMO Member
Very interesting.

"The Obama administration may have resorted to two instruments: fostering scandals within the Church and the Italian governmentt and threatening to drain away Italian and Vatican financial resources."

Now that bolded part I can see, but not blame it ALL on obama and clinton, although they very well could have, and probably did, work to exacerbate those situations. The RCC has plenty of scandals within all on their own accord.
 
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