What do we know about Giorgia Meloni’s Christian Faith?
by Gavin Ashdenden:
Italy has a new president. She describes herself as “Italian, Christian, woman, mother”. The press describes her as “fascist”. She repudiates the accusation; and in an interview with an Israeli newspaper the Israel Hayom declared: “we have handed fascism over to history for decades now, firmly condemning the loss of democracy, the outrageous anti-Jewish laws, and the tragedy of World War II.”
Everything depends on definitions, of course. Professor Paxton from Columbia University sees the difference between fascism and right-wing politics residing in the approach to “individual rights, civil liberties, free enterprise and democracy”.
And in the present circumstances in Europe, this is the crux of the argument. Where does the threat to individual liberties come from?
Meloni amongst many others, insists the real threat to human liberty comes now from the Left. In an energetic speech in 2019 to the World Congress of Families, she began by outlining the area of conflict.
It has been obvious for some time that the very notion of family has been an affront to progressive politics, but Meloni suggests that the struggle is with unseen financial and political adversaries, who wish to strip of us of our humanity and our identity, in order to crush us and turn us into consumerist slaves:
See also:
When did love of God, family and country become ‘far right’ and ‘fascist’? by Archbishop Cranmer
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