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PopeWatch: Meanwhile Back in Argentina

George Neumayr continues his look at the Pope’s Argentine roots:

On Monday, I visited that grave at Santa Cruz church. It was an illuminating visit. The pope’s communist mentor is pictured throughout the church and is given pride of place in its cemetery.

The church itself has become a shrine to her and other communist radicals, whose pictures and relics pervade it. I noticed that the stations of the cross in the church have been comically politicized, placing Jesus Christ in contemporary settings. He is depicted as a communist martyr, crucified by militarists and greedy capitalists.

Once a striking 19th-century church, Santa Cruz is now just a propaganda prop for Pope Francis’s gang of communist clerics. It is pitiful and puts me in mind of what a precocious teenager said to me the other day after I asked her what she thought of the pope: “He is so bad and ridiculous I don’t think he is the pope. Nothing he does is like what other popes have done.”

That is a common refrain in conservative circles here. I asked one traditionalist professor why Bergoglio copped to his tutelage under an outré radical like Ballestrino. He replied, “Bergoglio wanted to impress global leftists, especially at a time when reports surfaced about how he had let the state kill two commie Jesuits during the Dirty War.”

The latter matter is too complicated for me to resolve. But I take his point. In 2013, Bergoglio was eager to play up his left-wing credentials to dilute the impression he was a toady to Argentine thugs. Clearly, as a power-hungry cleric who instinctively sided with the Argentine deep state, Bergoglio was capable of some crude compromises.

But as pope, he wants the public to see him as a heroic, principled socialist.

Go here to read the rest.  Amazing how incurious most of the media is about the Pope’s background in Argentina, although perhaps not very surprising given the ideological allegiances of most of the Fourth Estate.

 

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Monday, September 9, AD 2019 1:10pm

I have a suspicion that Marx is attractive to people whose response to the problems of this world and to their own mundane life is one of recrimination and self-aggrandizement. Latin America prospers to the degree its decision-making element quits trying to steal from others and quits shaking their fist at others, but sets about obtaining some real accomplishment. Of course, Francis would never advise anyone to do that.

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