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  🇻🇦 Viganò attaque Léon XIV et rejoint les critiques de Trump     📜 Latinate English Summary Carlo Maria Viganò , already excommunicated for schism in 2024, has publicly criticized Pope Leo XIV , accusing him of acting more as a political ideologue than as a spiritual shepherd. His intervention echoes broader conservative criticism, especially from circles close to Donald Trump , who reportedly reproached the pope for weakness on crime and foreign policy. Viganò argues that many Catholics are scandalized by what they perceive as excessive softness toward global crises and insufficient moral clarity. His statement reflects not only personal opposition, but a wider fracture between nationalist Catholic conservatism and the present Roman direction. Thus, the conflict is no longer merely theological; it has become geopolitical. Contexte Carlo Maria Viganò , ancien nonce apostolique aux États-Unis et figure majeure des critiques contre le pontificat de Pope Franci...

  « Hollywood », catéchisme parallèle Résumé (Anglais, style latiniste) : In the grand amphitheater of American culture, Hollywood has long served as a pontifex maximus of secular belief. From early sound films to today’s streaming epics, the movies have disseminated an implicit theology – often subtler and more persuasive than any pulpit homily. Biblical blockbusters, saintly biopics and feel-good conversions (from The Passion of the Christ to The Chosen ) have offered Americans an informal catechism in technicolor researchgate.net decentfilms.com . Yet the same cinema has also sounded the shofar of critique, uncovering clergy scandals and ecclesial hypocrisy in films like Spotlight , Doubt or El Club . In uno lamentis orbis, Hollywood thus preaches two gospels at once: an evangelium laetitiae of faith and redemption, and an evangelium ictus of doubt and reform. The upshot is a sacred paradox: screens have replaced some pews, but the real Verbum – in scroll or heart – remai...