I don’t know. Please help me out here.
Would I be wrong, with my simple layman’s mind, to think that one of the biggest roles of the Secretary of State of the Vatican would be to promote Catholic principles among world governments, to encourage governments to become more Catholic, and, dare I say, to encourage those who are already Catholic, or at least reasonably so?
Well, apparently, I am wrong.
It has been reported that, prior to Leo XIV’s current visit to Monaco—a highly symbolic apostolic journey to Europe’s last remaining confessional Catholic state—a troubling statement has emerged from the highest levels of Vatican diplomacy.
“Cardinal” Pietro Parolin, speaking ahead of accompanying Leo XIV to the Principality, was reported to have said: “Faith should not stifle institutions, even in a confessional state like the Principality of Monaco.”
This reminds me of a comment the atheist Hollywood degenerate Brad Pitt once made during an interview. When asked about religion, he smugly told the interviewer that he is not interested in it because he “finds it stifling.” Both men seem to draw from the same antichrist cesspool of sentiments.
The remark comes at a moment of renewed attention on Monaco’s unique status. The Principality’s constitution enshrines Catholicism, with Article 9 stating: “The Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion is the religion of the State.” Now, let me just say, this is poetry to my little integralist heart. Add to this the fact that 82 percent of its population is “Catholic” (at least claims to be), and you would think that the Vatican would treasure this small but wealthy state.
But alas, the men playing dress-up in Catholic vestments, have other murky plans for the governments of the world. Plans that they execute at the behest of their globalist UN overlords.
Exactly what is meant by “stifling” one can only guess. Parolin is effectively saying that the Catholic faith ought not to exercise a decisive, normative influence upon the institutions of a confessional state. This is shockingly anti-Catholic.
A confessional state is not merely one that preserves vestigial religious language in its constitution. It is a polity that publicly recognizes the truth of the Catholic religion and orders its laws and institutions accordingly. (To what extent Monaco actually does this is not the point here.) To imply that faith must be restrained in such a context is to evacuate the very meaning of confessionalism. What Parolin and the Synodal heretics seem to want, if even that, is a purely ceremonial Catholicism: inoffensive, inert, and ultimately irrelevant.
The “Cardinal’s” statement reveals his modernist discomfort with the classical doctrine of the subordination of the temporal to the spiritual within the Catholic religion. As I have pointed out on numerous occasions lately, civil authority, while possessing legitimate autonomy in its proper sphere, must be ordered toward man’s ultimate end. This requires not neutrality, but submission to the moral law as authoritatively interpreted by the Church.
Far from “stifling” institutions, such an ordering perfects them. It liberates political authority from the tyranny of relativism and anchors it in an objective vision of the common good—one that includes not only material well-being but the salvation of souls. History bears witness to this truth: where the faith has shaped institutions, culture has flourished, and where it has been excluded, disorder has followed.
The contemporary European landscape offers ample evidence of this. As states have progressively privatized religion, their institutions have not become more vibrant or humane, but increasingly detached from moral reality. Laws now routinely contradict natural justice, while the very notion of the common good has been reduced to procedural consensus. The fact that Europe has degenerated into a urinal for liberalism and Islam, proves that it is not Catholicism that stifles institutions, but its’ absence that is cancerous.
Monaco itself stands as a counter-sign, however imperfect, to this trend. Its retention of Catholicism as the state religion is not an anachronism but a witness—a reminder that political communities can still acknowledge truths higher than themselves. Yet such a witness can only endure if faith is permitted to do precisely what Parolin’s formulation seems to deny, namely, to shape, guide, and, when necessary, correct public institutions.
I will say again what I have said multiple times before: these people are NOT Catholic. They hate Catholicism and are advancing a false religion that seeks to destroy it. Parolin and Co. are reinforcing the dominant secular narrative: that religion belongs to the private sphere and must not “interfere” with governance. This narrative has already wrought immense damage across historically Catholic nations. It does not require further endorsement from enemies of Christ who masquerade as Catholic prelates.
A real Catholic articulation would acknowledge that the Catholic religion does not suffocate institutions but animates them. It provides the moral coherence without which no political order can endure. In a truly confessional state, institutions are not rivals to faith but its instruments that are ordered, elevated, and ultimately fulfilled by it.
Either Christ is King not only of hearts but of societies, or He is not. If the former, then faith cannot be confined, moderated, or politely bracketed when it comes to public life. It must reign, so that institutions themselves may serve the truth—and, through it, the true freedom of man.
But because Christ is not their King, that is the last thing the hierarchy of the Synodal Church wants.
Our Lady, Co-redemptrix, pray for us…
Our Lady, Mediatrix of all Graces, pray for us…
Viva Christo Rey!
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Fair enough. That is not the point of the article though. My aim is to once again show that the Synodal Church has zero interest in advancing Catholicism.
This is an excellent post. You are an excellent catholic evangelist. Im glad I found your site! You hit the nail on the head in regards to the so-called catholic leadership!!!! Parolin is NOT CATHOLIC. Cardinal Zen made this remark after he was shun b y the vatican on the satanic china deal. Catholics cannot tolerate anymore the imposters that pretend to be legitimate leaders in the Catholic Church. This has to stop. Cathlics must acknowledge reality that the leadership in the church is not and since 1965 has not been catholic.