21 Nov 21 - Presidentcy

Fr dear Fr: Am I the only person in your extended internet parish community out here in New Spain that is not alarmed and appalled by the new presidency and its divisive rhetoric of late especially after the Rittenhaus Verdict? Given the divisiveness of the Biden Regime, how is it that your beloved so-called Wokist pope can concede the grace and privilege of social and public audiences to the likes of depleted uranium politicians of the Biden Regime that support women in trouble, like John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi? Am I just being churlish?

Well girlish maybe rather than churlish. This question comes from one of our cousins called EM in Amerigo-Land. Besides there is a principle here that diplomats sometimes make in their dealings with the more sensitive side of international politics. Semper fac distinctionem, this is the old principle of the need to distinguish one thing from another.

Do recall dear soul, leaving aside the pluses or minuses of that particular untested Regime you mention since we strive not to enter into secular politics on either side, that the pope, even a how you say Wokist pope, wears two hats, inter alia, one as a charismatic religious spiritual leader to 1.4 billlion catholics and 2 billion christians, and the other harder hat which he wears is the hat of the sovereign lord of a distinct state filled with many ethnic peoples. It is in this second capacity that he has to receive noteworthies and princes of the secular world of politics such as Nancy Pelosi Speaker and John Kerry Ambassador. Privacy morals are kept out of such contacts and accords since they are a privacy matter and are not to be spoken about among holy celibates up there in the white city of the popes in their sacred palaces. Besides the noble and gracious young ladies back home in those clinics do enjoy a right to privacy, the right not to have their choices or weaknesses or faults discussed by total strangers thousands of miles away. Diplomats are conscious of several tiers to these contacts of a public and social kind:

Via politica - ars politica est ars plausibilis;

Via presidentiale - ars presidentiale est ars prudentialis;

Via ecumenica - ars ecumenica est ars caritatis ac unitatis;

Via diplomatica - ars diplomatic est ars gratiae sub pressione;

Among these four tiers of international SCV activity, the pope has to practise the old adage of the Via politica - Ars politica est Ars possibilis, the art of politics is the art of the possible, not the art of the impossible and far-reaching and abstract. Real people, real diplomats require some SCV attention too. If the pope then is a sovereign lord then his cardinals are also secular princes, who should be accorded all the privileges normally given out to princes, including innocent until proven guilty, something Amerigos find hard to accept since they all swear loyalty to a republic. They are not there to provide a backdrop to a movie about suffering doctors and scarlet fever, like a Utopian novel by Camus, they are there to be honoured and respected. Diplomats too for this reason are honoured with their due title - "Your Excellency", especially when they come to visit the Vatican. Their private views and opinions on a range of topics on morals or religion are not germane to the central issue here that they represent the democratic government of a free nation, the leaders of the free world, Golden Amerigo-Land. So your question is not really churlish, it merely labours from some common misunderstandings about the international role of church diplomats and church agents. The rest is history. I shall not comment extensively on the whys and wherefores of the Rittenhaus case as it is sub iudice. No comment on individual cases is the generic policy of SCV or IGA or BSS agents. Enough to say, most diplomats in church circles out there in the Med might be a little surprised that it came to trial at all - one minor boy defending his mortal coil, simple.