lOn November 7, interviewed by journalists, the Cardinal Secretary of State of the Vatican, Pietro Parolin, had this very Jesuit and prudential formula about Donald Trump’s victory: “We wish you a lot of wisdom, because it is the main virtue of rulers, according to the Bible. » Remembering, among other things, that the Catholic proposals on immigration were “very precise, very clear” and that this issue deserved a focus “truly human”He also confirmed the Vatican’s rapprochement with China, previously described by Mike Pompeo, then secretary of state in the first Trump administration. [2018-2021]of moral guilt.
But the diplomacy of the Holy See seems to have no influence on Catholic voters in the United States. The latter also do not seem to have listened to the recommendations of their own episcopal conference, which urges them to elect candidates (in all the November 5 elections) capable of guaranteeing “the common good of all and the promotion of the dignity of the human person, in particular of the most vulnerable among us, including the unborn, the poor, foreigners, the elderly and the sick, as well as immigrants ».
In fact, Catholics (about 20% of the electorate) primarily voted for a candidate with non-Catholic promises: removal of millions of people from the country, repeal of environmental regulations, repeal of the Affordable Care Act. [loi qui permet à une grande majorité d’Américains de bénéficier d’une couverture santé]opposition to unions, etc. Would they have ended up massively embracing the ideology of Christian nationalism of certain Trump supporters? The answer is not so simple.
Certainly, the September pre-election polls signaled the change in the intentions of the Catholic vote, giving 47% for Kamala Harris and 52% for Donald Trump. For years, commentators have highlighted the unbalancing effect on the Catholic mosaic of the high vote of white Catholics for Donald Trump: they concentrate, in fact, very conservative and also very religious voters, hostile to abortion. This “racial” segment voted for Trump and the Republicans 64% in 2016, 59% in 2020 and 62% in the 2022 midterm elections.
Wave of virilistic reaction
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