The Pen Might Be Mightier than the Sword but not the Word

It will be far more than the proverbial Fishy Friday when Barack Hussein Obama walks into the Vatican to meet Pope Francis, armed only with his braggadocio pen and phone. The news of the upcoming Obama papal visit comes from no angels but from abortion-espousing John Kerry having just been at the Vatican himself.

“U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Pope Francis, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said after his own stop at the Vatican Tuesday -- though it wasn't immediately clear when the meeting between the President and pontiff will happen. "I know that the Holy Father is anticipating the visit of President Obama here, and the President is looking forward to coming here to meet with him," Kerry said in Rome after meeting with Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin. “Kerry and his counterpart discussed a range of issues, including the Middle East peace process and Africa.” (CNN, January 14, 2014) If there is one place in the entire world where the braggadocio pen and phone of a visiting Marxist would be of little use, it would be the Vatican which has stood strong against both Communism and radical Islam for centuries.

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In latter day times, first came Pope John Paul II, then Benedict XVI and now Francis. Even though the far left try to separate Francis from John Paul and Benedict, all are Christ’s Vicar on Earth. For those on the left who would argue that the Vatican fighting Communism is ancient history, John Paul II, as Karol Wojtyla stood unflinching in the face of Communism and sent it on the run. There’s a gigantic crucifix that hangs to this day over the altar at the Karol Wojtyla-consecrated church at Nowa Huta in Poland. It is made out of shrapnel that had been taken from the wounds of Polish soldiers, collected and sent from all over the country to make the sculpture in the church Wojtyla fought the Communists to build. “From the first day of his election, John Paul II’s pontificate raised concern in Central Committee headquarters. The Canadian reporter, Eric Margolis, described it this way: “I was the first Western journalist inside the KGB headquarters in 1990. The generals told me that the Vatican and the Pope above all was regarded as their number one, most dangerous enemy in the world. (John Paul II biography, Vatican website) “Again and again, people told us that it was John Paul II’s trip (to Poland) that was the fulcrum of revolution which led to the collapse of Communism. Timothy Garton Ash put it this way: ‘Without the Pope, no Solidarity, Without Solidarity, no Gorbachev. Without Gorbachev, no fall of Communism’. (In fact, Gorbachev himself gave the Kremlin’s long-term enemy this due: ‘It would have been impossible without the Pope.’) Like all good things worth doing, it took time. “It took time; it took the Pope’s support from Rome--some of it financial; it took several more trips in 1983 and 1987. But the flame was lit. It would smolder and flicker before it burned from one end of Poland to the other. Millions of people spread the revolution, but it began with the Pope’s trip home in 1979. As General Jaruzelski said, ‘That was the detonator’.” Then in 1987 it was President Ronald Reagan who told Gorbachev, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Today it’s Pope Francis in the Vatican when Mr. Soetoro comes to call. Fearless Francis fears no leper, no criticism of the bitter left, no pen-bearing Marxist. Obama’s puny pen and phone are no threat to Pope Francis. After all, what fear could they possible pose to a man who has the Almighty on his side?