[Reposted from April, 2019]

JORGE BERGOGLIO, aka “Pope” Francis, worships man. In a particularly vivid display of this reverence, he kissed the feet of politicians from South Sudan this week. His famous knee problems did not prevent him from getting to the floor.

Humble pie. A true pope would consider this kind of groveling before any politicians an affront to papal dignity.

But it is highly unlikely that Francis would have kissed the feet of just any politicians, as much as he might have embraced their politics. It’s not surprising this type of display was reserved for Africans. 

Similarly, does he urge Japan or Kenya to take in millions of immigrants from alien cultures? No, he urges Western countries, and Western countries only, to subsume their own cultures and keep open their borders to all who seek entry. The European man, whether he lives in Italy or America, is urged to destroy the stable cultural environment in which he thrives, not Asians and Africans.

But why is this?

The Vatican II religion is a cult of man. The worship of man inevitably leads to the cult of the Other, to the worship of man most foreign to the culture of Europe, the wellspring of Catholicism on every continent.

The late Lawrence Auster explained this phenomenon:

As human beings we are free to deny God, but we are not free to do away with our need (because it is built into our nature) for something that is beyond us, that transcends us and provides the meaning of our existence. So, when people deny God, who is, as it were, the “vertical” transcendent, they start to look for a “horizontal” transcendent substitutes. This horizontal transcendent is, pre-eminently, other people. Furthermore, as I said, since God is that which is most Other from ourselves, the more different other people are from us, the more they seem like God or fulfill the function of God in our psyches. Thus the worship of man devolves into the worship of other men, other cultures, other peoples, combined with a contempt for our own. This is the mystical cult of multiculturalism—the uncritical identification with the Other, whoever the Other may happen to be.

[From the forthcoming Our Borders, Our Selves: America in the Age of Multiculturalism]

For multiculturalists, “diversity” is just a code word for a forced, homogenous sameness. They seek to destroy the true diversity of peoples created by God. They are opposed to nature and to the adoration owed to God alone.

They kiss the feet of not just any man, but the non-European most of all.

Walk into a “Catholic” church today in an American suburb, and you will probably see a smiling picture of an African somewhere in the vestibule. Not that Africans can’t be just as much part of the universal Church or aren’t worthy of charity. But the ubiquity of African faces sends a political message. “See, we are multiculturalists too.” It’s pandering and demeaning to Africans, who must in many cases see through the vanity of it all. It’s all about the goodness of the worshipper, not the object of such attention, who is deprived of his real humanity when he becomes an idol.

— Comments —

Neil writes:

So here is “Jimmy” Akin of “Catholic” answers talking about immigration.  Obviously he knows what the caller is getting at – should a country have so much mass immigration that it loses its identity – but he obfuscates that he doesn’t want to ‘persecute’ people (who does?) because of their identify. Funny years ago I had some discussion with him about the notorious “Assisi Event” and let’s just say he defended it.  Guess he knows who butters his bread.

Laura writes:

He would never talk that way if it was a question of immigration to China or Ethiopia.

Multiculturalism is not multiculturalism. It’s ‘culture for thee, but not for me.’ It’s anti-white. And the fact that almost every single (gentile) white person is the descendant of a Catholic paradoxically explains why.

Laura adds:

The true Catholic Church does not subscribe to this gobbledy-gook, this secular Tower of Babylon.

Just as the Catholic faith brings out and amplifies the distinctiveness of individuals, it lets cultures develop their personalities and modes of being within the boundaries of Catholic morals and practices. It is universal spiritually, not an agent of radical homogenization and racial dissolution. Catholic Brazil is very different from Catholic France. If God wanted us all to be the same, He would have made us that way.

Beneath this multiculturalism, ironically, there’s a hidden racial superiority complex. Whites are viewed as the saviors of humanity. They’re not permitted to have their human cultural setting, with flaws and strengths, because saviors of humanity are above all that. What terrific arrogance.

Francis’s oh-so-humble gesture is typical of this arrogance in disguise.

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