Gut Microbiome Gospel: Antichurch Substitutes Diet for Divine Grace
The National Catholic Register portal reports that high-ranking officials in the Trump administration—including Vice President JD Vance, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—have adopted a diet heavy in raw sauerkraut, allegedly inspired by Catholic Lenten penance and the counsel of a “Catholic physician,” Dr. Sean O’Mara. The article frames this dietary regimen as a “pungent revolution” and a “living diet,” celebrating weight loss, shrunken waistlines, and “glowing complexions” as the fruits of fermented cabbage. This trivialization of asceticism into a bio-hacking trend for the political elite exposes the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to naturalism and the cult of the body, wherein the Cross is replaced by the cabbage and eternal salvation by metabolic optimization.