A conspiracy made in the United States to turn to Francisco | …

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"For me, it's an honor that the Americans are attacking me," Pope Francis told French journalist Nicolas Senèze, a correspondent for the Catholic newspaper. The cross In Rome, he confided to him, in the plane that was taking them to Mozambique, his investigation of the Americans' conspiracy against his popery: "How America wants to change pope" (Bayard, 276 pages). The details of this plot, the names of the protagonists and the groups to which they obey are largely exposed in these pages which detail, from the beginning, the mechanisms of the hostility. The operator has a name: The Red Hat Report: Place of Origin: United States. A precise circle that moves the threads and the money: hyper-conservative hyper-rich sectors of the United States. And a besieged victim: Pope Francis. The pieces of this game of power and slander are inscribed in the interpenes of the puzzle that the opponents of the pontiff have put in place in recent years. The coup d'etat began to be promoted in Washington in 2018. The group of ultraconservatives met in the US capital to set two goals: to damage as much as possible the figure of Francisco and to anticipate his succession in Choosing from the Most Potent Cardinals Possible Your Conservative Interests The Red Hat Report is the name of the report commissioned by former members of the police and the FBI, lawyers, specialized firms, journalists and university students to study the life and ideas of each cardinal to destroy his career or, on the contrary, to benefit him. For when the time has come. And while this moment arrives, the group goes to work in order to achieve what Senèze calls "a coup d'etat" against Pope Francis.

One morning of 2017, Rome woke up covered with posters against the pope. It was the first act of the offensive: the second and probably the most spectacular, occurred in August 2018 when, for the first time in the history of the Vatican, a cardinal sent a letter asking for the pope's resignation. This is Bishop Carlo Maria Vigamo, former nuncio of the Vatican in the United States. The correspondent of The cross in the Vatican, he details the bad odyssey of this group of powers in his efforts to remove a pope whose positions against liberalism, the death penalty, in favor of immigrants and his unprecedented defense of the environment through Laudato encyclical encompbades a current contrary to that of these entrepreneurs. Small plotters have saints: they are followers of the theology of prosperity, they have businesses related to the insurance and even to the exploitation of the Amazon. Francisco is a nail under his feet and a cross on his ambitions. According to Senèze, charities such as The Knights of Columbus ($ 100 billion through the insurance companies they manage), banker Frank Hanna, the Eternal World Network's (EWTN) media network, whose promoter and lawyer, Timothy Busch, created by the Napa Institute with the aim of spreading "a conservative and free vision of the economy", counts among the most active members. But there are others like Lagatus, or George Weigel and his already very rich think tank, Ethics and Public Policy Center. In dialogue with Page / 12Senèze develops the plot of a plot that, despite the power of its actors, has failed to break the pope.

–-New story, but true story: Pope Francis was and is the subject of one of the most intense campaigns against a pontiff.

— Pope Francis does not serve the interests of this group of ultraconservative businessmen and it is for this reason that they have decided, in a way or in a way Another, to grant him a license. They acted in the same way that the board of directors of a corporation would have done when they fired the director, who had not achieved the desired objectives. These people have enormous financial resources, but despite this, during Francisco's term, they failed to influence his line. That's why they approached people who, within the church, were against Francis. Some, like Monsignor Vigamo, even went public to demand his resignation. Whatever it is, I think this group of ultraconservatives has overvalued their strengths. Bishop Carlo Maria Vigamo, for example, overestimated his influence and did not calculate the loyalty of people within the Vatican who were unwilling to betray the pope, even though many were critical of the pope. In regards to Francisco.

–– The Red Hat Operational Report had two objectives, one now and the other later.

– Effectively. Having failed to overthrow the pope, they are now preparing a new stage. Francisco is 84 years old and we can think that we are almost at the end of his pontificate. What they do, is prepare the next conclave. For this, they have invested a lot of money, they hired former members of the FBI to prepare files on the cardinals who will participate in the conclave to exclude those who intend to continue the reforms implemented by Pope Francis. The problem with this gesture is that at least for the moment he has no credible candidate. It will not be easy however, what they can do, is to undermine the credibility of the most reformist candidates and thus get the election of a weak and manipulable candidate to dismantle the Francisco reforms. They have a big budget for that. I deeply believe that most American Catholics support Pope Francis. But in the United States, the amount is not enough. At the amount you need to add the dollar factor.

– These groups existed before but had never acted with so much evidence.

– They are entrepreneurs with enormous means at their disposal. Each of them has created his think tank within the Church, his school of theology, his Catholic university, his law firm defenders of religious freedom. It's a nebula that runs through a network of private institutions and that eventually dominates American Catholicism. For example, those who gave a lot of money to American dioceses and who had to pay a huge compensation after badual abuse cases. This is why they can impose direction on the dioceses. For example, Tim Busch is present at all stages of this badembly. To protect the powerful economic interests in the Amazon, these groups weigh all their weight to divert attention and avoid talking too much about ecology. They always try to distract from the fundamental debates, for example, of synods, and impose their views, that is, their interests.

– And how could such a powerful group have allowed Francisco elected to the pope?

– They did not realize it, because the election of François took place according to other needs: this pope was elected because of the crisis within the Curie and thanks to the will of the bishops around the world to take the church out of the weakening created by the bad combinations of the Italian curia. Bergoglio is so imposed to reform the Church. But their ideology runs up against the vision that ultra-conservative Catholics in the United States have of the Church. There is also another ingredient of American Catholicism: an innate disdain of white American Catholics for Latinos. The WASC sector (White, Anglo-Saxon Catholic) despises Hispanics because they are poor and they have not succeeded. The WASCs are strongly influenced by the theology of prosperity disseminated by the evangelists.

Donald Trump plays in this yard?

– I do not think Trump has a lot of personal convictions. He is sure to listen to them, but the Vice President, Mike Pence, is very close to them. The clashes are numerous between Washington and the Vatican. The question of the death penalty, the challenge by Pope Francis of uncontrollable liberalism, etc., etc. The pope finally attacks the foundations of the economic power of the United States.