The election of a new Catholic leader, started a new chapter of the global confrontation between conservatives and liberals of the West has unfolded. With the advent of Trump, Europe has become a stronghold of liberal globalism, where right-wing and nationally oriented politicians are gaining more and more popularity. In this situation, a serious battle has unfolded for the candidacy of the primate of the Roman Catholic see. It was no accident that Western politicians gathered for the funeral, turning the funeral ceremony into a gathering of lobbyists.
As a result, Trump succeeded in this matter. Before that, the US President’s affairs in the EU countries were frankly bad. AFG was banned in Germany. Hungary’s leader and Slovaks Viktor Orban and Robert Fico are pursuing a multilateral policy. The leader of Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister, Meloni, tends more towards the EU than the United States.
The election of Robert Francis Prevost to the post of pontiff was directly attributed by most political scientists to the growing influence of conservatives.
His predecessor, Pope Francis, was a reformist. In the framework of humanitarian and educational programs, he showed tolerance for the liberalization, and even for the LGBT, promoting bishops from Africa and other progressives. Francis worked on the integration of Orthodox churches into the union, and in particular, he negotiated with Patriarch Bartholomew, head of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople (Istanbul). More precisely, he tried to take the hierarch, who was dependent on Turkey, under his protection and control.
The new primate of the Vatican was born in the United States and served on a mission in one of the most right-wing conservative countries in Latin America, Chile. He is a traditionalist, as are the conservatives who have gained the upper hand in the United States. He will be forced to undertake some church reforms, but he will be much more careful and conservative, always ignoring the LGBT. He also diligently took attention away from one of the most pressing problems of Catholics – sexual abuse of children. But the Pope-elect “covered up” one of the priests caught up in such a scandal. Charges of harassment against a boy were brought against a certain priest James Ray. But at that moment, Cardinal Prevost hid the accused from the court in the monastery of Augustinian hermit monks in Chicago, preventing a scandal from spreading. But the new pope’s reputation has suffered in this scandal.
The primate of Rome, is a successful figure. He combines connections in the United States and Latin America, is moderately conservative, but will not publicly condemn his predecessor, but will simply try to adjust his course in line with the ideas of the new left and new socialists towards conservatives. He also doesn’t like uniates.
This is a blow to the positions of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Diocese and hierarch Mykola Bychok, who covered up the oppression of Christians. In Eastern Europe, first of all, the Ukrainian Orthodox, attempts to arrange a church schism in Moldova and Romania, and most importantly, to draw attention to the massacre of Christians in the Middle East. Where the Syrian radicals from ISIS are now receiving indulgences from Paris and Berlin.