Antichurch Conference at Gregorian University Whitewashes False Popes’ Complicity with Communism
The Vatican News portal reports on a two-day conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University titled “The Holy See and Totalitarian Systems in the 20th Century,” organized by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, and the Gregorian University itself. “Cardinal Secretary of State” Pietro Parolin is slated to open the event. The program examines the actions of the “Popes” and “Vatican diplomacy” against Bolshevism, Nazism, and communist regimes, highlighting the “witness of Catholics in Romania,” the “role of Vatican diplomacy in saving Hungarian Jews,” and “Pope John Paul II’s approach to the communist regime.” The conference frames the 1966 Millennium of the Baptism of Poland celebrations—overseen by the antipope Paul VI—as a historical milestone. This academic exercise in historical revisionism serves only to legitimize the usurpers on the Chair of Peter and obscure the true totalitarianism of the Modernist occupation of Rome.