A pal of mine, Robert Kramer (a scholar of Otto Rank), lived in Hungary from 2015 to 2025. He holds twin citizenship with Hungary and the USA and is fluent in Hungarian. He shared his ideas in regards to the latest Hungarian election—and its implications for America.
I’m thrilled that Orbán, totally corrupt and authoritarian, is out. He led the surge of the far-right in Europe and the US. He stole EU cash that may have gone to Hungarian hospitals, faculties and retirement pensions.
Though a longtime atheist, he claimed perception in Christianity and gave large quantities of cash to the Catholic Church to maintain them on his aspect.
With authorities management of 80% of the media, he stoked hatred of LGBTQ folks and the EU’s imaginative and prescient of liberal democracy. He compelled Hungarian universities to kneel. He and his cronies will face prosecution for stealing billions in EU funds.
The brand new man, Péter Magyar, was amazingly brave in standing as much as the continuous defamation of his character by the Hungarian media. I’ve watched him over final two years as he spoke all around the nation. His fundamental message to Hungarians was “haven’t any worry.”
The massive crowd at his victory speech on Sunday evening (I watched on YouTube) shouted many times “we is not going to worry.” We want the identical message within the US. I hope Orbán’s fall is a bellwether for the decline of the far-right in Europe and the US.
We now have additionally realized that Orbán’s son-in-law has fled to the USA with thousands and thousands of {dollars} stolen from the Hungarian folks with the assistance of his uncle. (America additionally, it appears, has a presidential son-in-law difficulty….)
In the meantime in information again residence, a listening to was held of Trump’s so-called “Spiritual Liberty Fee.” Its chair is Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who kicked issues off by declaring that “the separation of church and state is the largest lie that’s been instructed in America since our founding.”
A lot for realizing the US Structure. The place did these folks go to highschool? As Paul Raushenbush of the Interfaith Alliance put it, “What Trump, Patrick, and co. are doing has nothing to do with defending spiritual liberty. It’s an try and weaponize faith and rewrite the Structure.”
The Interfaith Alliance goes to court docket. “We refuse to allow them to erase our nation’s true historical past of non secular tolerance and variety.”
This comes on the identical week that the president lectured the Pope about his preaching of peace over battle. Pope Leo, talking from Cameroon on an 11-day journey to Africa, responded by lamenting a “world turned the other way up” by a “handful of tyrants” and “masters of battle.”
And added: “Woe to those that manipulate faith and the very title of God for their very own navy, financial, and political achieve, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth….The masters of battle faux to not know that it takes solely a second to destroy, but typically a lifetime just isn’t sufficient to rebuild,” he warned.
He virtually feels like Hildegard of Bingen taking up the Emperor of her day.
These just like the vice chairman who imagine that politics is outdoors the area of faith and ought to be left to the politicians alone, would possibly take a lesson from Mahatma Gandhi. He notes: “Those that say faith has nothing to do with politics have no idea what faith means.” And “Nature and society are each topic to a single regulation of justice and unity.”
Values and debate about values have a spot on this planet of commerce and Wall Road and authorities. And Sure, there is a separation of church and state in our structure. Thank God.
To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video meditation, click on HERE.
Banner Picture: Supporters of the Tisza Occasion have a good time Péter Magyar’s landslide victory within the Hungarian parliamentary elections, April 12, 2026. Picture by Christian Unger on Shutterstock.
Queries for Contemplation
How do you are feeling in regards to the Hungarian election and non-violent overthrow of Orbán? And about Trump’s assaults on Pope Leo and the latter’s response?
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
Trump and the MAGA Motion as Antichrist.
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.
Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Technology.
Charles Burack, ed., Matthew Fox: Important Writings in Creation Spirituality.
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Therapeutic of Mom Earth and the Delivery of a International Renaissance.
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Presents for the Peoples of the Earth.
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
