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Re: Pope Francis lashes out at world economic system...
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Monday, September 23 2013, 1:39:02 (UTC)
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"...all we're admitting by getting google-eyed over this fellow is that he is a CHRISTIAN and we aren't used to such a Christian speaking this way...that's all. "


-- There are those who accuse the Pope of collaborating with the neo-Nazi junta in rule in Argentina from 1977-1983, and how he did little to nothing to save anyone's life, especially the lives of free-thinking nuns and priests. John Lee Anderson in the New Yorker writes, "The key allegation against him is that he pointed out left-leaning priests to the military as dissidents, leaving them exposed, and that he did not defend two kidnapped clerics or ask for their release. He has denied this, and says instead that he protected priests and others—just quietly, in secret."

It's difficult to not think that Pope Francis' appointment may have been a Vatican public relations (PR) move to present a new, moderate and humane image of Catholicism Inc., since the Vatican has been inundated with "bad press" due to incorrigible paedophile priest rapists exploiting young helpless faithfuls. Or the previous Pope's mishandling of cases of accused clergy by ignoring them or by diminishing their criminal acts by moving them from one parish to the other, resulting in more rapes enabled by the former pontiff.

But there's also another context within which to view the new Pope: that of a new Latin America independent of its historical sponsor, the U.S. Since the latter part of the 1990s, with the presidency of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela; Lula de la Silva and former guerilla, now president Dilma Rousseff of Brazil; Nestor Kirchner, and his wife, current Argentinian president, Christina Fernandez; Evo Morales, in Bolivia; former Tupomaros and presently residing over Uruguay as president, Jose Mujica, who's country is the first nation to legalize Marijuana, and who's known as the most humble world leader who drives an old VW Bug, and gives most of his earnings to the poor; Latin America has become the only block of nations and continent to move away from the Washington Consensus, driven by neoliberal economic policies, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the U.S. Treasury determining economic prescriptions by applying structural adjustments, deregulation of transnational corporations, tax cuts for the super rich, and the dismantling of the social safety net -- to which the new Latin America shouted back, "Ya Basta!"

Pope Francis fits naturally within this milieu, but unless he accounts for his murky past during a critical point in Latin American history, repenting for what he has been accused, then it's difficult to take what he says with any amount of credibility, since these days all a failing corporation must do is to hire a PR specialist to script and sculpt a new image to regain the faith and business of former customers, and to seek to open new markets for new consumers (of faith).
Until then, he's just another face representing the interests of a secretive socio/economical and political entity (under guise of the Holy Spirit).

In some ways he reminds me of Hassan Rouhani, the elected president and new face of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), who's seducing the world press, with some journalists and politicians calling him "a breath of fresh air", since two terms of Ahmadinejad left such a bad taste in every one's mouth. But as the interests of the staunch supreme leader of IRI, Ali Khameneni, surpass the olive branch approach of President Rouhani, the Vatican's interests outweigh the liberal whims and new approach of Pope Francis.


IN NOMINE PATRIS, ET FILII, ET SPIRITUS SANCTI... AMEN.



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