The Eucharistic Congress 2021 has finished in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, with a large outdoor Mass with Pope Francis to cap off events.
Some of the other significant public highlights included a candlelit Eucharistic procession, attended by thousands as they passed through the Budapest streets.
As part of his trip there, Pope Francis met with Viktor Orban and discussed the future of Christianity on the continent. Orban gifted the pope with a letter from King Bela IV.
This letter had caused outrage from the American Catholic Left, who have been swift to conflate Orban with Planned Parenthood. The implication that defending your country from invasion is the same as abortion is of the type of ignorance that caused some Americans to rename ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’ in the early 2000s, it is the outrage at those who assert the Manifest Destiny of a nation that is always right in fighting ‘tyranny’ even when it is wrong.
Those outraged American Catholics would be better devoting their own energies to discussing the acts of their sitting Catholic president, who scorched 7 innocent children to death this past week with a drone, for no strategic or military reason. No apology, no public penance was given afterwards. The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan should not be used as a tool by the Catholic left to attack those that they do not like, particularly when those that they have implicitly endorsed or defended are committing war crimes while attending daily Mass. To our knowledge, not a single member of the anti Orban American Catholic Left has condemned Biden’s war crime last week, which left a grieving father mourning the massacre of his 7 children.
Another important part of Eucharistic Congress events was the beatification of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, who lived under Communism in Poland, a pivotal figure alongside Pope John Paul II in the survival of the faith there.
Cardinal Dominik Duka, who was acquainted with the Cardinal personally, shared a photo of him praying at the blessed's tomb, a tribute to their shared survival under Communism.
The pope will travel to Slovakia today where he will also offer a public Mass.