A tale of two popes: Nationalism or Globalism?
by Jules Gomes, Rebel Priest:
[…] The war between globalism and nationalism being waged at the heart of Western Christendom is a war between progressivism and conservatism. It is embodied in a tale of two pontiffs—Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II.
While visiting the Sant’Egidio Community earlier this month, Francis called for a “globalisation of solidarity.” Contrastingly, his Polish predecessor called for a “nationalisation of solidarity.” When Poland was under martial law, Pope John Paul II uttered the banned word “Solidarity” six times in his Sunday Angelus address.
In 1983, John Paul preached to two million Poles at Jasna Góra calling for Poland to be a sovereign nation. In his homily, he used the word “nation” or “national” twenty times.
Karol Wojtyła boldly theologised nationalism using the phrase “evangelization of freedom.” He defined this as “the dimension of the freedom of the nation” and the “dignity of a sovereign state.” “The sovereignty of the state is deeply linked to its ability to promote freedom of the nation,” he said.
“The Nation is truly free when it can be configured as a community determined by the unity of culture, language, and history. The State is solidly sovereign when it governs society and also serves the common good of society and allows the Nation to realize itself in its own subjectivity, in its own identity.”
John Paul unblushingly theologised “the fundamental truth about the freedom of the Nation: the Nation perishes if its spirit is deformed, the Nation grows when this spirit is purified more and more, and no external force is able to destroy it.”
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