What goes these days by the name of “updating” or aggiornamento within the Roman Catholic Church is, in its bulk and basic inspiration, the ecclesiastical counterpart of the political “opening to the left.”
Like de Gaulle, Nasser, Sukarno, etc., the Vatican has interpreted American—and Western—behavior in the past twenty years as a sign of abdication from global responsibility. Communism is here to stay, a powerful Catholic minority holds. It will, like a bulldozer, first level Europe then America; hence it is imperative to establish a modus vivendi with it, or, in more fashionable terms: peaceful coexistence. The Church’s task is to conquer the conqueror, writes Carlo Falconi, an ex-priest representing a group of Italian priests and laymen, “to baptize those who want to and may well in fact bury us.”
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