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Relations between theĀ United StatesĀ and theĀ VaticanĀ have never been easy and, indeed, they have no reason or way of being so. More enemies than friends, or ratherĀ frienemies, an inescapable fate seems to condemn the two empires to a warlike confrontation wherever their lines intersect, in each of the emerged lands and in any era.
The United States and the Vatican are and always will be frienemies. They can only be this. They can only aspire toĀ negotiated antagonism, or rather to competitive cooperation whenever collaboration isĀ necessaryĀ ā as in the presence of a common and potentially deadly enemy ā and to confrontation wheneverĀ history allows it. AĀ perpetuum bellum, theirs. And it cannot be otherwise: the United States is the City upon the hill in the image and likeness of the Pilgrim Fathers, and the beacon of a unique Luther-shaped Protestant Christianity imbued with messianic contents and full of millenarian expectations; the Vatican is what remains of the Heritage of St. Peter and theĀ Res publica christiana.
Ideological differences aside, there is a reason behind the animosity between these two powers whose kings swear by the Bible and have historically sought to proclaim the Gospel to every creature. That reason isĀ Latin America,Ā or rather hegemony over it, and it has served asĀ aĀ casus belliĀ of aĀ conflict that, over time, has assumed a world-scale dimension. As a result, today, the United States and the Holy See are at war: theĀ World War of Crosses.
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