This is a shock to many, including me, although the scorning of the Church from this government has been obvious. That intimate communications between perhaps the nation which is the world's leader and the hub, the center of the largest religion in the world, will be compromised.
But, this administration does not care about dialogue with Faith. This move is not for the silly reason given-security. The reason is the marginalizing of the one, true, holy and apostolic Church.
Marginalization is a step on the way towards out and out persecution. This were outlined a few years ago by Father Joseph M. Esper over a few days on EWTN in 2012. Father was reiterating findings from social psychologists who studied the movement of persecution in Germany which led to the killing of over six million Jews in a systematized manner, all legal, all supported by millions of people.
Marginalization is the next to the last step before laws are passed to outlaw the target group and begin fines, imprisonment and finally, death.
I am grateful for one thing. This administration is showing its true colors of its hatred of the Catholic Church in America. The Church is the one institution standing up to the abortion mandate, same-sex-marriage and other moral issues which in the past would have been shared with good Christian leaders.
We have moved far beyond those days. In this post-Christian era, the Church will increasingly be targeted as anti-American.
Antonio Gramsci, who I have studied in great detail, wrote clearly in one of his letters from prison, that the only group of people who understood what the atheist communists were actually doing in the kulturkampf was the Catholic Church. He cited several popes including Leo XIII, as understanding the great enemy of Christian, Western culture and civilization.
The removing of the embassy will be a rude rebuke, a slap-in-the-face to the Vatican, to the Church.
As an American, I am ashamed and horrified. But, this is merely one sign of the times....
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Obama-administration-plans-to-close-Vatican-embassy-in-shock-move--233288751.html
I was pretty infuriated myself when Obama did this. But you are right, it shows real hatred of the church. For those who say "oh, the Vatican is a small player, hardly worth having an embassy with-- they are massively ignorant and need to think again. The cooperation between Reagan and the Vatican in working to push the fall of communism throughout eastern Europe was phenomenal, and might well not have happened without the extent of co-operation and pooling of intelligence resources between the VAtican and the US -- there was an excellent in depth article well worth the read which can be found on the topic here: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/02/books/l-the-holy-alliance-759864.html
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