Does the United States really want to annex the Vatican?

Now the world is waiting for the iconic bubble of White Smoke, which suggests that one’s election may be considered as having a unique position of power and advocates the exercise of a universal form of moral authority. Accepting this authority or not, we cannot avoid feeling that the authority of every other institutional leader on the planet seems to be focused only on things that are very different from moral logic, if not very obvious.

The problem today is that moral authority does not bear much weight in a world driven by individuals at the collective level and national security. In the Western world, at least, moral authority continues to remain unchanged in everyone’s heart, meaning there is nowhere to go in the common landscape and formally in the laws of every country. Moral standards exist in the form of dominating fashion. Traditionally quotes Winston Churchill as the source of Stalin’s disdainful question: “How many divisions does the Pope have?”

So why are so many willing to invest hard-earned cash to bet on the final winner of the game cheese? It’s not just about practicing Catholics, who are concerned about the decisions of the conference. Rose Morelli’s article on the website LBC Tell us that “betting houses are delivering on opportunities” because “gamblers’ interest in future pope competitors is even Formula One and Europa League’s interest in betting venues”.

Just to assure us that this is not a modern vice related to late capitalism and its culture of financial speculation, this article claims that the tradition of betting on the decisions of conclusions can be traced back to 1503. At that time, two popes were elected. Unfortunately, the unfortunate pius III died from a contender 26 days after his election, which is inexplicable – two more campaigners of Morelli, whose two of their campaigners were conquering both elections. Odds.

Persterity retained two major associations with Julius II, who lost the first time but won the second election in 1503. Julius’s idea of ​​entrusting his work to Michelangelo has wowed Vatican visitors today at the ceiling of Sistine Chapel. Perhaps more importantly, Julius, whose contemporaries called him the “Pope of Warriors”, made a significant contribution to the subsequent political unrest in Italy and Europe. His papal style made the Vatican respected by Stalin’s European military empire. It helped create the open uprising of Martin Luther against the militarized empire of the Vatican four years after the Pope’s death in 1513. The Pope’s political adventurism laid the foundation for the humiliating disaster known as the Roman sack in 1527.

The successor of Pope Francis will soon be elected, in stark contrast to the pope half a thousand years ago (such as Julius or his predecessor Alexander VI, Borgia Pope). Can a new father, a new “warrior pope” (for example, from a country dedicated to war) replace a famous father who claims that all wars are unjust?

USA Today A John Bacon article titled “Will we see the first American pope ever? How the image of the United States works.” It has expressed a secret hope in recent decades after the death of the ruling pope.

Today’s Weekly Devil’s Dictionary definition:

American Pope:

A fantasy historical figure who speaks Latin, maybe Italian and English, but probably not Spanish.

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The same article contains this true assertion: “The history of Francis becoming the first pope in Latin America.” Even after Elon Musk’s colonial colonization, the entirely logical visitor that takes place in this article may struggle that the “Popular South America” ​​may be inherited by “the first American pope ever.” Does “everything” in English mean “second”? If so, it might make sense.

Only asking questions in the title of the article seems to indicate the logical answer to the question. The reason why America has never had a pope is Bacon’s arrogance in using the word “America.” Of course, there is nothing original to just apply the term specifically to things that are formally known as the “United States of America”. After all, one of the five words that make up some troubles in the country happens to be “America.”

Long time ago, people in the United States developed to some extent the habit they then shared with the world. This is based on the assumption that due to the history of American economic, military and cultural domination, the adjective “US” refers only to one of the three North American countries (Canada, the United States and Mexico) rather than the entire African continent. We all have the conditions to use the language in this way. Special thanks to Hollywood, a soft power machine that uses the adjective “America” in many of its titles: “American Beauty,” “American Psychology,” “American Mafia,” “American Sniper,” “American Beer,” “American Miscellaneous,” “American Graffiti,” “American Pie,” to name just a few. It celebrates Marvel superhero “Captain America.” All of this belongs to the broader idea of ​​the “American Dream”.

But to be honest, isn’t this the generous gesture of an American journalist to admit that Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the first American pope? That’s true Pope Francis It is Italian stock and may not have true “Native American” bloodline. Still, Argentina is a U.S. country, much larger than Idaho or Rhode Island.

Some cultural icons are difficult to distinguish. Bruce Springsteen describes his true origins in the lyrics of “Born in America.” Of course, he could do that because he was “a cool rock daddy in America”.

History

Springsteen’s song describes some of the effects of particularly painful plots in “American Pride: Vietnam War”. That was the time for patriotic bumper stickers that incited war protesters to “love America or leave it.” Some people choose to stay in the United States…but in Canada and even Mexico. “Oh, but that’s not what we mean,” the stained (and real sheep-like) owner of the bumper sticker might object.

Speaking of Mexico, when I visited the wonderful Anthropology Museum in Mexico City decades ago, I will never forget the moment when I found myself in a room that was also occupied by a group of young people in our country. When checking the monitor and finding Mexican symbols of the Mexican eagle catching snakes, one of them yelled, “They stole our national birds.” This is the same mentality that recently incited U.S. President Donald Trump to claim his right to what he hopes everyone now calls the “Gulf of America.” We can’t deny that this bay is located on and next to the American continent…but the name can place it anywhere from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego.

The legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright is aware of the diverse variety of national and regional architectural and cultural traditions that exist around the world, and understands that equal respect is required to provide all countries and peoples. To avoid talking about anything related to the United States, he coined the word “usonian”. Wright spent some time in his career, building some of the most exquisite original homes in and around Hollywood. If he had, on the contrary, during that period, engaged in films, adopting the mindset of the great Studios, he might have achieved even greater success, convinced the public to adopt the epithelial Unosian.

exist USA Today Bacon quotes an article by James Bretzke, a professor of theology at John Carroll University in Ohio, who provides an interesting explanation of the practical problem: Why, even after the real American pope rule in the United States (from another region of the United States), the Catholic Church never dared to elect a pope in the United States.

“Bretzke said the pope was a diplomat and had to be accepted globally, and the pope had to appear to represent a cross-section of the world. In the past, Italians were seen as diplomats in the church, so they were more acceptable throughout the race – although it seems less important now.”

Now, this is a compelling explanation. In the current era of former U.S. Presidents Joe Biden and Trump and Trump, despite the superficial differences these two presidents embody, they both maintain a principle that has become sacred in American geopolitics: rejecting diplomatic practices. Our leaders today believe that diplomacy is a waste of time and money, something that should be rooted in the name of “government efficiency” and unipolar upright. This has been integrated into contemporary American psychology. This is something the Vatican cannot afford.

“I want to be a pope,” Trump said. This attitude may indicate why so many people find Donald refreshing. Unlike other presidents who carefully conceal their intentions through their anger at democracy and human rights, Trump wears his arrogance on his sleeve. Arrogance only works if you know how to hide it.

* (In the time of Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain, journalist Ambrose Bierce produced a series of ironic definitions, ironic definitions of common terms, illuminating their hidden meaning in real discourse. Bierce eventually collected and published it as a book and used it as a book, and he mastered his depliment in 1911, and in the continuous effort, his title was ongoing, his title was shame, and his title was ongoing effort. Fair Observer Devil Dictionary)

((Lee Thompson-Kolar Edited this. )

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