{"id":66314,"date":"2005-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/04\/11\/le-pape-des-neocons\/"},"modified":"2005-04-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T00:00:00","slug":"le-pape-des-neocons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/04\/11\/le-pape-des-neocons\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Pape des \u201cn\u00e9ocons\u201d<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le Pape des n\u00e9ocons<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t11 avril 2005 Il y a un int\u00e9ressant courant d’analyse et de sp\u00e9culation qui s’est fait jour apr\u00e8s la mort de Jean-Paul II, qui concerne l’attitude de l’Am\u00e9rique extr\u00e9miste et bushiste par rapport au catholicisme, et par rapport au prochain Pape. Ses implications sont r\u00e9volutionnaires, de m\u00eame qu’est r\u00e9volutionnaire l’appr\u00e9ciation qu’on peut en tirer sur la situation actuelle de la direction am\u00e9ricaniste de ce point de vue. Le constat doit \u00eatre fait que la religion, sous tous ses aspects, est impliqu\u00e9e, de force s’il le faut, dans l’immense d\u00e9bat id\u00e9ologique, politique et strat\u00e9gique d\u00e9clench\u00e9 par l’activisme belliciste des Etats-Unis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNous citons deux articles \u00e0 ce propos:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• Celui de Sidney Blumenthal, dans le Guardian du 7 avril<\/a> sur les causes de la pr\u00e9sence exceptionnelle (une premi\u00e8re pour la pr\u00e9sidence US) de GW Bush \u00e0 Rome, pour les obs\u00e8ques de Jean-Paul II.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• Celui de Wayne Madsen, sur le site de Online Journal en date du 5 avril<\/a>. Madsen embrasse une perspective beaucoup plus large, en tentant de pr\u00e9senter une politique n\u00e9o-conservatrice vis-\u00e0-vis des catholiques, avec les sp\u00e9culations qui vont avec.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLes deux articles vont dans le m\u00eame sens mais ouvrent des perspectives diff\u00e9rentes. Celui de Madsen est beaucoup plus sp\u00e9culatif (donc risqu\u00e9 d’un certain point de vue), et beaucoup plus large (donc plus int\u00e9ressant, sans aucun doute). Blumenthal signale que l’administration GW va tenter d’intervenir pour influencer le monde catholique \u00e0 l’occasion du changement de pape, et renforcer l’aile droite int\u00e9griste du catholicisme parce que celle-ci correspond compl\u00e8tement, du point de vue id\u00e9ologique et culturel, aux choix r\u00e9publicains.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMadsen voit une politique n\u00e9o-conservatrice vis-\u00e0-vis du Vatican, tendant \u00e0 faire \u00e9lire un cardinal (le cardinal autrichien Schoenbrun) pour renforcer l’aile int\u00e9griste et conservatrice, former un front commun avec l’\u00c9glise ainsi devenue une alli\u00e9e de GW, par cons\u00e9quent accro\u00eetre d\u00e9cisivement l’influence US\/neocon<\/em> vers l’Am\u00e9rique Latine, l’Europe catholique, l’Afrique, etc. Ce qu’il y a de cr\u00e9dible dans la th\u00e8se de Madsen, c’est ce qui para\u00eet le plus d\u00e9raisonnable. Les n\u00e9o-conservateurs sont effectivement coutumiers de ces plans grandioses. Apr\u00e8s le Moyen-Orient d\u00e9mocratis\u00e9 (?!), l’\u00c9glise et le catholicisme mobilis\u00e9s au service de GW Bush, ceci ne d\u00e9pare pas cela, quant au r\u00e9sultat!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tVoici quelques remarques que Madsen fait \u00e0 propos de la position des neocons<\/em> vis-\u00e0-vis de Schoenbrun:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The dream candidate of the neocons for the next pope is the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn. According to a major neocon media outlet of convenience, The Jerusalem Post, Schoenborn, on a recent visit to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, echoed the Christian Zionist line of George W. Bush, Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich, and neocon Catholic and New American centurion Michael Novak. Schoenborn referred to Israel as God’s chosen land for the Jewish people. Responding to the comments of a clearly pained Palestinian priest, who questioned the cardinal on his support for Israel’s usurpation of Palestinian lands and homes, basically said that as a refugee from war time Czechoslovakia he understood the pain of refugees. Commenting further, Schoenborn said that was a matter of international law while the Jews’ inheritance of the Holy Land trumped international law because it was prophesized in the Bible and that all Christians should embrace Zionism as the fulfillment of that Biblical prophecy.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Although Pope John Paul II established diplomatic relations with Israel and was the first pope to visit a synagogue, he was also cognizant of the Holy See’s responsibility to Catholicism’s flocks in Palestine and other Arab lands. For example, he maintained close links to the late Palestinian President Yasir Arafat.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb John Paul II was not only strongly opposed to George W. Bush’s unprovoked invasion of Iraq but came out vocally against Bush’s father’s Desert Storm invasion. Speaking to ABC’s This Week on April 3, Jim Nicholson said that during his last meeting with the pope in March, before he departed his post as American ambassador to the Vatican to take up the position as secretary of Veterans Affairs, the pope wanted to know where Bush intended to take America in the world with its awesome temporal power. It is no secret that the late pope had no time for Bush and his bellicose and aggressive ways and, according to well-placed journalists for Catholic Italian newspapers whom I spoke to in 2003, the pope commented to some of his closest assistants that what he feared most in Bush was the coming of the Antichrist as prophesized in the Book of Revelation. It was the fear of the arrival of the Antichrist during his priesthood that plagued John Paul II since his earlier years in Poland.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb It will now be in the interests of Bush’s extreme right-wing evangelical base (and Bush’s Svengali, Karl Rove) to ensure that someone like Schoenborn assumes the papacy. They are looking for someone who, unlike John Paul II, will support the death penalty and more actively oppose family planning and stem cell research. The evangelicals will also want a pope who will, unlike John Paul II, permit rightwing Catholic clerics to involve themselves in politics. John Paul II strictly enforced his order that priests not engage in politics. It was that order that cost Massachusetts liberal Democratic Representative Father Robert F. Drinan his House seat. The evangelicals will want to see that Vatican order lifted to permit conservative Catholic priests to try and gain even more Senate and House seats for the Republicans in heavily Catholic and Democratic states like Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, and Michigan. An absolute majority in both chambers would give the Tom DeLays, Bill Frists, and Karl Roves a virtual free hand in the appointment of anti-abortion and anti-gay judges.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb For the neocons, Schoenborn would become a rubber stamp for America’s plans for global domination. Like Pope Pius XII who gave a wink and a nod to Adolf Hitler’s conquests, Schoenborn would see Washington’s continued wars as fulfillment of his interpretation of biblical prophecy. In that respect, Schoenborn would complement Bush’s other religious supportersPat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, and Sun Myung Moonand bolster the neocon movement with the might of the Vatican. The result of such a power shift would help bring Latin America, Catholic Europe, Francophone Africa, and parts of Asia firmly within the American sphere of influence.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tCe qui est encore plus inattendu et int\u00e9ressant chez Madsen, du point de vue documentaire sur les sp\u00e9culations US \u00e0 propos du futur Pape bien plus que du point de vue de la pr\u00e9vision, c’est la traduction en noms et en interpr\u00e9tations des factions qui seraient d\u00e9termin\u00e9es par cette action n\u00e9o-conservatrice (celle-ci \u00e9tant relay\u00e9e, selon son interpr\u00e9tation, par certains cardinaux \u00e9tats-uniens). Face \u00e0 Schoenbrun, Madsen place l’ancien archev\u00eaque de Paris Jean-Marie Lustiger. Voici quelques-unes de ses remarques, qui donnent le ton de l’appr\u00e9ciation qu’il porte sur Lustiger:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The nightmare pope for the neocons, their fellow travelers in the Israeli Likud regime, and the evangelical right is both a Frenchman and a Jew. He is the recently retired Archbishop of Paris, a veteran of the faculty of the Sorbonne, and a very close confidant of John Paul II. (…)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Although Lustiger is a supporter of Israel, his unique viewpoints and very office and religion are anathema to the Orthodox rabbis who dictate religious policy in Israel. Lustiger is an enigma to the Orthodox religious figures in Israel: for them Lustiger is an apostate and a potentially dangerous proselytizer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Unlike Schoenbron, Lustiger would not only continue John Paul II’s policies of opposing Bush and the neocons but would ratchet things up a bit. His abhorrence for Bush’s preemptive warfare policies stem from his own bitter experiences with Hitler’s similar policies that ravaged his native France and all of Europe.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb According to the Sydney Morning Herald, during a visit to Australia in 2001, Lustiger charmed his audiences, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish with his sense of humor. Rejecting those who believe the Catholic Church should bend to popular will, Lustiger, said, I’m sorry Jesus Christ did not have a good public relations office because maybe he wouldn’t have had the bad problem of being crucified. But on other subjects, Lustiger demonstrated flexibility. On feminism and sexuality, Lustiger’s Gallic view of the world was apparent, These are problems of society, not the church . . . When you look at the issues around feminism, it’s not going so good. When you look at the issues of sexuality, it’s not going so good. Lustiger also laid down the gauntlet for the neocons and their policies of corporate control and consumerism. Criticizing the wealthy elites who control society, he said, Citizens are being turned into units of an all-pervasive consumption. He sees society drifting toward new forms of conformism, of unfreedom . . . I think Dr. Goebbels would be happy with some of the advertisers of today. He would think, If I’d had this agency I might still be in power.’ Lustiger continued, Democracy needs citizens not consumers. When people are merely consumers of politics, they are more easily manipulated. And in our time conformism is stronger than in the past. A strong defender of human rights, Lustiger challenged Indonesia on the plight of East Timor. That puts him at loggerheads with the incoming World Bank President Wolfowitz, whose admiration for the Indonesian military genocidaires has never known any bounds.<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tSoyons clairs, m\u00eame au risque de nous r\u00e9p\u00e9ter. Nous ne citons pas ces extraits pour int\u00e9resser le lecteur \u00e0 une pr\u00e9vision mais pour lui faire prendre conscience de ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne important: l’int\u00e9r\u00eat de l’administration GW et de ses soutiens et inspirateurs id\u00e9ologiques pour la situation actuelle de l’\u00c9glise. Cet int\u00e9r\u00eat, du point de vue am\u00e9ricain, est sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, tout comme l’est la pr\u00e9sence de GW aux obs\u00e8ques de Jean-Paul II. Cela symbolise une situation compl\u00e8tement extraordinaire, quant \u00e0 la dimension id\u00e9ologique et politique o\u00f9 ce point de vue washingtonien place la d\u00e9signation du futur Pape, quant \u00e0 l’importance, d’un point de vue plus g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, que la religion en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral a acquise dans la politique mondiale imm\u00e9diate et imm\u00e9diatement circonstancielle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCette implication du fait religieux dans l’ar\u00e8ne politique du monde, que l’\u00c9glise le veuille ou non, pour ce qui concerne les catholiques, pourrait \u00eatre d\u00e9crite comme une sorte de coup id\u00e9ologique plan\u00e9taire dans l’ordre des choses et des domaines qui comptent dans les relations internationales. L\u00e0 est l’important de ces sp\u00e9culations : plus que le fait de sp\u00e9culer sur telle ou telle nomination (le processus institutionnel de d\u00e9signation du Pape ne r\u00e9pond pas aux impulsions que d\u00e9crit Madsen), le fait m\u00eame de placer la d\u00e9signation du futur Pape, directement sur ce terrain de la politique imm\u00e9diate, partisane, explosive pourrait-on dire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tD’autre part, l’\u00c9glise ne doit pas s’en \u00e9tonner ni s’en offusquer : c’est son pape Wojtyla qui a voulu cela, lui qui fut immens\u00e9ment politique, lui qui fit tomber le communisme et qui, ensuite, joua un r\u00f4le essentiel dans la politique du monde, et jusqu’au bout. (Demandez-en des nouvelles \u00e0 Tony Blair, lui qui alla chercher une b\u00e9n\u00e9diction au Vatican fin f\u00e9vrier 2003 pour sa guerre contre l’Irak, et qui ne re\u00e7ut qu’une admonestation extr\u00eamement s\u00e9v\u00e8re.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’\u00c9glise, malgr\u00e9 toute sa prudence et toute son habilet\u00e9, ne pourra \u00e9chapper au destin commun aujourd’hui. Plus personne parmi ceux qui repr\u00e9sentent une quelconque puissance ne peut \u00e9chapper au politique, c’est-\u00e0-dire \u00e0 une prise de position entra\u00eenant un engagement dans cette immense vague d’\u00e9v\u00e9nements d\u00e9structurants qui secoue le monde. Dans cet entra\u00eenement, et pour l’\u00c9glise elle-m\u00eame, existe un risque de division (parlerait-on de schisme?!) \u00e0 cause des facteurs profond\u00e9ment d\u00e9stabilisants port\u00e9s par la pouss\u00e9e am\u00e9ricaniste: ultra-conservatrice \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur, lib\u00e9rale-interventionniste \u00e0 l’ext\u00e9rieur, c’est-\u00e0-dire deux tendances qui apparaissent de plus en plus antagonistes. L’\u00c9glise post-Jean-Paul II n’\u00e9chappera pas \u00e0 cette sorte de dilemme o\u00f9 les contradictions sont simplement extraordinaires.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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