by Joseph P. Farrell,Giza Death Star:
Canossa is a small town in Italy with a castle on a rugged perch of rock that dominates the countryside. You probably have not heard of it, unless you’ve studied church history a bit, for in this little town, in 1077, a drama was played out. Here, in the dead of winter, the Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich(Henry) IV stood in the snow for three days, begging the then-pope, a fellow German with the surname of Hildebrandt, and known to history as Pope Gregory VII, to lift his excommunication. For people in seminaries and church history studies, the episode is famous and well-known for the way it redefined the relation of church and state, with the Papacy able to force the State’s acceptance of its claims to ecclesiastical, and temporal authority and supremacy. Behind this convenient narrative, however, lay a much more nuanced and problematical development. Both the Emperor and the Pope were Germans. Indeed, Gregory VII’s presence on the cathedra of Rome represented the final conquest of the papacy by the Germans, a process that had begun under Charlemagne some two hundred years earlier, and which, along the way, had accrued new claims and wedded itself to other doctrinal formulations which, to reject, was to reject the Papacy itself. In the ironies of history, at the very moment the Germans had finally and irrevocably captured the Papacy in a kind of medieaval “regime change operation”, they, in the person of Hildebrandt/Gregory VII, had lost it. Hildebrandt, for whatever his faults or even spurious claims, was not about to play the secular game that so many German Holy Roman Emperors were enamored of.
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The situation has its odd parallels to today. After World War II the Vatican increasingly entered America’s Cold War geopolitical calculations. Contacts between the world’s newest intelligence agency, the CIA, and the world’s oldest intelligence organization and political chancery, the Papacy, were forged under the pontificate of Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, aka Pope Pius XII. Pacelli’s Vatican became the intermediary to launder American money to the Italian candidates standing against the Communists in Italy’s 1948 elections. The daliances with the papacy continued through Pacelli’s successors: Roncalli (John XXIII), Montini (Paul VI), Luciani (John-Paul I), Woytilja (John-Paul II), Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), Bergoglio (Francis), and now, Prevost (Leo XIV). Indeed, under the first non-Italian pope in centuries, John-Paul II, the Papacy’s politics and America’s became wedded to such an extent they seemed almost inseparable, for the Papacy and the PrResidency were both locked in a life-and-death duel with the Soviet Union, a duel that the Soviet Union would lose, not just because of Mr. Reagan, but because of John-Paul II’s threat to return to Poland to confront any potential Soviet military invasion of the country to keep it within the orbit of the Warsaw Pact. It was the Soviet Union’s “Canossa” moment, and like Henry IV, it lost that contest. The Warsaw pact, and eventually the Soviet empire itself, unraveled.
Source: SGT Report
