The amusingly named Guardian has printed an article which suggests in tones of hope and glee, that the Holy Father might be arrested when he comes to England.
There hasn't been this much talk about arresting a Pontiff since the days of Joe Garibaldi and Napoleon Bonaparte who had himself arrested Pius VII and imprisoned him with the expectation that he would agree to Napoleon's subjugation of the Church. Upon refusing to submit to Napoleon's demands, occasionally, it was purported, Napoleon would threaten and physically beat the Pontiff. After failing to get Bl Pius IX in their clutches during the wars Italian Unification 1848-1870, the forces of evil have concocted another trick by creating a media frenzy throughout the world by appealing to people's natural sense of the sacredness and innocence of children, and attempting to portray the Catholic Church as responsible for the corruption of the same.
The irony of all of this shouldn't be lost on anyone familiar with such propaganda campaigns of the past, calculated to produce the destruction of an institution. French revolutionaries produced pornographic cartoon drawings of Marie Antoinette to obtain the downfall of her family and husband; strangely, the anger of the mob didn't turn against her tormentors, it turned against her.
It's taken many years to rehabilitate the memory of this woman and expose the lies which were told about her to perpetrate a political evil, and it may be that the Catholic Church will once again enjoy the same persecuted status It once enjoyed in England after Henry VIII, in France after Robespierre or in Russia after Lenin.
We fully expect that if Pope Benedict isn't arrested, the various governments will use this event as a pretext to confiscate church lands, supervise priests and bishops and even persecute individual Catholics whom they dislike for any number of arbitrary reasons.
The dictatorship of relativism is upon us, and we don't expect the forces of evil to triumph in destroying the Papacy.
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