By akademiotoelektronik, 20/08/2022

True or fake: is there a link between Catholicism and conspiracy theory?

PublishedUpdatedVideo length:2 min.Article by franceinfoFrance Télévisions

Former archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, geneticist Alexandra Henrion-Caude and the director of "Hold-Up", Pierre Barnérias, are among the main informants of the Covid-19 pandemic. All of them also claim to belong to the Catholic religion. Are there links between certain Catholic circles and conspiracy?

"Some of the faithful are receptive to theses coming from things outside Catholicism, explains Jean-Benoit Poulle, associate professor of history and specialist in Catholicism. As a result, broadcast them, rebroadcast them, and reinterpret them using (…) of Catholic intellectual software.” The new world order is the idea of ​​a secret plan that would be carried out by elites to subjugate humanity. According to Carlo Maria Viganò, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, he would be anti-Catholic. He published many letters to express his theories. It is on one of them that the documentary Hold-Up, by Pierre Barnérias, ends. In another text, written with several members of the clergy, Carlo Maria Viganò explains that Covid-19 is not so dangerous, and that "there are strong powers interested in creating panic among the population".

Vaccine against Covid-19 and mark of the Beast

"Conspiratorial Catholicism (…) has a little need to be apocalyptic, that is to say to believe that it is arriving at the end of time (…), quite simply because the end of the world, in the general Catholic imagination, is the place of a gigantic clarification”, considers Benoit Poulle. For some Catholics, many signs are harbingers of the end times, such as the mark of the Beast, which some see in the anti-Covid vaccination.

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