The god of science is admitting that he no longer practices the Catholic faith in which he was raised because, quite simply, he knows better than God. In a recent conversation on “Influential with Katty Kay,” Anthony Fauci told the BBC presenter that he no longer practices his Catholic faith. When asked why, he responded, “A number of complicated reasons,” which is a common enough way for ex-Catholics to say that their antipathy towards the Church is predicated on emotion, not on logic.

“First of all,” Fauci explained, “I think my own personal ethics on life are enough to keep me going on the right path.” Catholicism, as the oldest branch of Christianity, serves as the foundation upon which Western civilization rests. It is thanks to the Catholic Church that the literature, philosophy, theology, artwork, political theory, and culture of the ancient world were preserved when pagan invaders swept across Europe in the wake of Rome’s collapse. It was Irish missionary monks who kept safe the works of great minds like Plato and Aristotle, the epics of Homer and Virgil, and the teachings of Christ when much of Europe was in flames. These same missionary monks then restored these great works and teachings to continental Europe. (READ MORE from S.A. McCarthy: Pope to Oust American Cardinal From Rome Residence)

It was a Catholic bishop, St. Patrick, who first condemned slavery on a universal level as an abject immorality — a sentiment echoed with increasing force by Popes for the next 400 years. It was the Catholic Church which first founded universities and encouraged the development and spread of education. It was Catholic thinkers, from Augustine to Boethius to Aquinas and Bonaventure to Robert Bellarmine to Pope John Paul II who shaped, defined, and clarified the values upon which the Western world is built. It was Catholic artists like Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo DaVinci who renewed the celebration of beauty as a shadow of the Divine.

It is thanks to the Rule of St. Benedict, considered the father of Western monasticism, that law was preserved in Europe after the Roman Empire fell. The one-time-hermit and his followers founded countless monasteries across the continent, which became central hubs for community, education, and even justice. The monks would establish schools, teach children and adults how to read and write and study scripture; they would train local farmers in animal husbandry, in gardening, in cooking; they established homes for the poor and hospitals for the sick, pioneering the field of medicine (which is, remember, purportedly Fauci’s own field).

Pope St. Gregory the Great was instrumental in crafting what would become the political, legal, and societal basis of the West. The son of a Roman senator and himself a former Prefect of Rome, Gregory enacted political and liturgical reforms throughout the Christian world, evangelizing the Anglo-Saxons and various Germanic, Celtic tribes, and uniting Europe under Catholicism. In artwork, Gregory is often depicted standing upon a border, between the Roman and Germanic worlds which he united, between the East and the West which he brought together, and between the ancient and the medieval worlds. (READ MORE: Jesuit Priest Declares Donald Trump an Antichrist)

Under Charlemagne, crowned the Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in A.D. 800, Europe was further and more closely united. The Emperor oversaw the building and subsidizing of schools across the continent, voraciously promoted literacy and education, enacted economic reform and revitalizing European currency, worked hard to support the poor, and organized petty kings and warlords into a cohesive, peaceful, law-abiding empire. The ramifications of Catholic Charlemagne’s rule still resonate throughout the world today and have shaped the West’s view of everything from economy to art to war and even to social justice.

St. Thomas Aquinas had perhaps the most profound effect on the Western world, and his thought is still the basis of countless legal and judicial systems, governments, and political agendas the world over. It is thanks to the philosophical contributions of Aquinas that human value is considered the foundation of modern law; it was the foundation laid by his writings that allowed John Locke to write so eloquently and authoritatively on natural law; it was ideas pioneered and defined by Aquinas that inspired America’s Founding Fathers to write their Declaration of Independence and their Constitution and fight for their freedom from tyranny and injustice; even the notion of “human rights” is derived from Aquinas.

It was during the crusades, ordered often by Popes, that ideas like tolerance, religious liberty, and cultural assimilation were developed. The founding missions of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders promoted the idea that the general population could develop and exercise profound virtue, a necessary concept for today’s age of democratic self-governance. Historian Kenneth Clarke posited that the Catholic Church’s reverence for the Blessed Virgin Mary was instrumental in increasing respect for women and for human sexuality, saying that the example of Christ’s Mother “had taught a race of tough and ruthless barbarians the virtues of tenderness and compassion.” (READ MORE: Catholic Priest Sentenced to Life for Sex-Trafficking)

Fauci’s arrogance in preferring his “own personal ethics on life” over those which shaped the past 2,000 years of Western civilization is staggering. That arrogance decays into narcissism when one recalls that Fauci funded the creation of COVID-19 and lied about it, performed sick experiments on dogs, and funded grafting the scalps of aborted babies onto lab rats. Very often, those who say they do not need the guidance of the Catholic Church are those who need it most.