The St. Gallen Mafia and Orwellian Francis
With his new interview on the 2005 papal election, Francis is retelling an edited version of history promoted by the St. Gallen mafia.
In George Orwell’s 1984, no one is supposed to know about anything predating the Revolution that put the now-dominant Party in power. In Orwell’s dystopian prophecy, the records must all be redacted, the memories must all be censored, and the statues must all be renamed to align with the Party’s official account of history. In an eerily similar way, under the current regime of Pope Francis…