{"id":972768,"date":"2021-11-05T15:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=972768"},"modified":"2021-11-05T15:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T19:14:04","slug":"l-a-archbishop-decries-rise-of-globalism-anti-christian-elite-leadership-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-archbishop-decries-rise-of-globalism-anti-christian-elite-leadership-class\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Archbishop Decries Rise of Globalism, Anti-Christian \u2018Elite Leadership Class\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fl-a-archbishop-decries-rise-of-globalism-anti-christian-elite-leadership-class%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=972768&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" 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href=\"https:\/\/archbishopgomez.org\/blog\/reflections-on-the-church-and-americas-new-religions\">address<\/a> to the Congress on Catholics and Public Life in Madrid, Archbishop Gomez said Thursday that an \u201celite leadership class has risen in our countries that has little interest in religion and no real attachments to the nations they live in or to local traditions or cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis group, which is in charge in corporations, governments, universities, the media, and in the cultural and professional establishments, wants to establish what we might call a global civilization,\u201d the archbishop warned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this elite worldview, there is no need for old-fashioned belief systems and religions,\u201d he continued. \u201cIn fact, as they see it, religion, especially Christianity, only gets in the way of the society they hope to build.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his critique of \u201ccancel culture\u201d and \u201cpolitical correctness,\u201d Gomez said that \u201coften what is being canceled and corrected are perspectives rooted in Christian beliefs \u2014 about human life and the human person, about marriage, the family, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In modern society, \u201cThe \u2018space\u2019 that the Church and believing Christians are permitted to occupy is shrinking,\u201d he lamented. \u201cChurch institutions and Christian-owned businesses are increasingly challenged and harassed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same is true for Christians working in education, health care, government, and other sectors,\u201d he added. \u201cHolding certain Christian beliefs is said to be a threat to the freedoms, and even to the safety, of other groups in our societies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project of radical secularization, which is anti-Christian in its roots, has accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic, the archbishop said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think history will look back and see that this pandemic did not change our societies as much as it accelerated trends and directions that were already at work,\u201d he observed. \u201cSocial changes that might have taken decades to play out are now moving more rapidly in the wake of this disease and our societies\u2019 responses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new social movements and ideologies that we are talking about today were being seeded and prepared for many years in our universities and cultural institutions,\u201d he stated. \u201cBut with the tension and fear caused by the pandemic and social isolation, and with the killing of an unarmed black man by a white policeman and the protests that followed in our cities, these movements were fully unleashed in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c. . . political belief systems based on social justice or personal identity have come to fill the space that Christian belief and practice once occupied,\u201d the archbishop said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever we call these movements \u2014 \u2018social justice,\u2019 \u2018wokeness,\u2019 \u2018identity politics,\u2019 \u2018intersectionality,\u2019 \u2018successor ideology\u2019 \u2014 they claim to offer what religion provides.\u201d<br \/>\u201cThe architects of this movement seek to replace the Christian story with \u201cwhat we might call the \u2018woke\u2019 story or the \u2018social justice\u2019 story,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s critical theories and ideologies are profoundly atheistic,\u201d Gomez observed. \u201cThey deny the soul, the spiritual, transcendent dimension of human nature; or they think that it is irrelevant to human happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they \u201creduce what it means to be human to essentially physical qualities \u2014 the color of our skin, our sex, our notions of gender, our ethnic background, or our position in society,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez has denounced a deliberate effort \u201cto erase the Christian roots of society and to suppress any remaining Christian influences.\u201d In a powerful video address to 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