POPE FRANCIS: THE CORPORATIST POPE

9/25/2015 | Self

[Nextrush]

When Pope John Paul II was selected in 1978, I'm convinced that God was in the room.

At a moment when Communism was spreading and threatening the world spearheaded by the Soviet Union, a Pope was selected from a Communist ruled country (Poland). A Pope who knew the Marxist-Leninist ideology first hand and had spent a lifetime fighting the good fight against it.

John Paul II was such a threat to the Soviets that they tried to kill him in 1981.

John Paul joined other contemporaries of his time from Ronald Reagan to Margaret Thatcher to provide a counterpoint to the tyranny exemplified by Communism in the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.

We move forward to the selection of Pope Francis, which came after the sudden resignation of Pope Benedict.

Francis comes from Argentina, a country whose politics has been dominated for 70 years by Juan Peron and his Peronist descendents. Peronism is a combination of socialism, fascism and crony capitalism, an unholy conglomeration rife with corruption. Argentina has also been a country that experienced an economic meltdown some 13 or 14 years ago that led to riots, looting and repeated government shakeups.

In those respects one can argue that Francis is a Pope who has experienced a political system and economic conditions that are either engulfing our modern world or threaten to engulf it in the not so distant future.

He is as much a Pope who fits our times as John Paul II did his.

But the difference may be that while John Paul II opposed the political order of the nation he came from, Francis may embrace the dominant political notions of his homeland.

Many want to look at Francis in terms of the Left-Right Marxism-Capitalism paradigms but my sense is that the political situation the world is living in increasingly resembles Argentina or soon will.

In the United States and Western Europe many of us have figured out we might as well be in Singapore where the one official party that won 83 of 89 seats in its parliament is at up front about being one party.

The major parties in the US and Europe pretend to be different but come together in the end to make business and banking elites happy.

When Pope Francis speaks about immigration and promotes however much he chooses to the notion of mass migration and open border he makes the business elites happy. Some Marxist he is/sarc.

Elites that want cheap labor to exploit, both the newcomer immigrants and people already living in this country whose wages will be lower because the nation has been flooded with able bodies.

If Pope Francis talks about global warming or 'climate change' and supports a reduction in the world's 'carbon footprint' he again makes big business and crony capitalists happy.

For starters the wind turbine and solar panel makers who lined the pockets of politicians who in turn regulate the coal industry out of business so the crony capitalists can move in and make lots of money.

Pope Francis's preaching about global warming-climate change is also music to the ears of the world's biggest corporation.

Wal-Mart has spent the last decade dedicated to a policy of 'sustainability' and reducing its carbon footprint with solar panels on stores, streamlined trucks, and reduced packaging.

When conservative shareholders show up at the annual meeting to ask why Wal-Mart would take sides on a political issue with the Left, the company's answer avoids politics entirely.

The message is that the company is more profitable because of its global warming "sustainability" agenda.

Former CEO Lee Scott has explained that because of its size, Wal-Mart can reduce its carbon footprint without increasing its costs.

That's a much more difficult proposition for those companies and individuals who operate on smaller scales.

So much for the "social justice" talk because in the end when the "Leftist Pope" pushes a global warming agenda, he is saying government should regulate in favor of big business against smaller business and individuals.

And that's why I see the 'left-wing' Pope Francis as a 'corporatist' Pope Francis with much of what he is talking about.

[almcbean]

I recommend reading the book “The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister”

[ETL]

Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190909/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD
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Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190904/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02

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Liberation Theology and the KGB

Jay Richards | February 2, 2010

The presence of Marxism in liberation theology is well-known, at least to seminarians who are critical readers. Practically every seminarian reads Gustavo Gutierrez’s Theology of Liberation at some point, but most laypeople find it hard to believe that there could have been (and continues to be) a widespread attempt to hybridize Christian theology and Marxism.

Marxist regimes obviously benefitted from the spread of liberation theology in the churches. Still, I was not aware of any connections between liberation theology and communist clandestine organizations until now.

A new article by Robert D. Chapman in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence begins to connect some dots. In “The Church in Revolution,” Chapman, “a retired operations officer in the Clandestine Services Division of the Central Intelligence Agency,” argues that the KGB infiltrated the Russian Orthodox Church through Metropolitan Nikodim, the Russian Orthodoxy’s second-ranking prelate. Nikodim was a proponent of liberation theology. Nikodim was active in the otherwise-Protestant World Council of Churches. And the WCC, of course, became an actively left-wing organization during the last half of the 20th century.

Chapman also details the growth of liberation theology in Latin America—and the Vatican’s struggles with it—and the growth of black liberation theology in the United States. Prominent proponents of the latter include James Cone and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The arguments of liberation theologians should be challenged on their merits. The source of an argument, after all, doesn’t establish its truth or falsity. Still, it’s interesting to learn that liberation theology may have been, at least in part, a project of the KGB.

Unfortunately, this isn’t just history. Chapman concludes ominously:

"the Theology of Liberation doctrine is one of the most enduring and powerful to emerge from the KGB’s headquarters. The doctrine asks the poor and downtrodden to revolt and form a Communist government, not in the name of Marx or Lenin, but in continuing the work of Jesus Christ, a revolutionary who opposed economic and social discrimination.

A friend of mine, a head of Catholic social services in my area and formerly a priest, is a liberation theologian. He has made a number of humanitarian trips to Central America and told me, ‘‘liberation theology is alive and well.’’ The same can be said of its sibling in the United States [ie, Black Liberation Theology]."

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2010/02/liberation-theology-and-the-kgb/

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More on Liberation Theology and the Soviets
Catholic News Agency ^ | 5/15/2015 | Alejandro Bermúdez

Posted on 5/16/2015, 11:56:24 AM by observationdeck

If the Soviet bloc wasn't the mother of liberation theology, it was certainly a sinister stepmother, enlisting Catholics in a geopolitical cause and inviting them to sell their souls for funding and support.

Only the naïve can disregard the mountain of evidence connecting liberation theology with Soviet action in the region.

(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...

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Re: James Cone, founder of "Black Liberation Theology":

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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The Black church and Marxism: what do they have to say to each other
by Cone, James H. 1938- . Harrington, Michael 1928-1989

https://archive.org/details/TheBlackChurchAndMarxismWhatDoTheyHaveToSayToEachOther

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From Aug, 2014...

Pope Francis lifts 29-year suspension on Liberation Theology icon [Miguel D’Escoto Brockman]

By Josephine Mckenna | Religion News Service
August 4, 2014

VATICAN CITY — Continuing a bid to revive a movement that was sidelined by his predecessors, Pope Francis has reinstated a Central American priest who was suspended by the Vatican in the 1980s for his involvement in the political activities of Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista movement.

The Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockman, 81, was suspended from his duties by St. John Paul II and recently wrote to Francis asking for that order to be revoked so he could celebrate Mass again before he died.

D’Escoto and three other dissident priests were suspended in 1985 for defying a church ban on clergy holding government jobs. The Sandinistas, who supported the “popular church” of liberation theology, overthrew the pro-American regime of Anastasio Somoza in 1979. D’Escoto served as Nicaragua’s foreign minister from 1979 to 1990.

(snip)

“During the 1970s, Father d’Escoto became engaged in politics in Nicaragua,” the Maryknoll statement said. “He joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a political party that overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle and established a revolutionary government.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/pope-francis-lifts-29-year-suspension-on-liberation-theology-icon/2014/08/04/9e1ed562-1c13-11e4-9b6c-12e30cbe86a3_story.html

[Arm_Bears]

POPE FRANCIS: THE CORPORATIST COMMIE POPE

Fixed it.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[buwaya]

Catholic economic thought is entirely compatible with corporatism, since Rerum Novarum at least.
Pope Francis is not going anywhere others havent. John Paul II wasn’t really different in this respect. He had his anti-capitalist moments too.

[denydenydeny]

His political positions are childish and inconsistent.

If the number one threat to the world is “climate change”, then how can he also support mass immigration to the developed world? Moving millions of people from developing countries to rich countries will mean big increases in fossil fuel usage.

[Lopeover]

Has he left yet? Authoritarian Marxist.

[ETL]

His political positions are childish... [ie] the number one threat to the world is “climate change”...

He sounds more like Chavez or Castro, or Obama...

“The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible — global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes — with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet.”

“I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I don’t think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, ‘tomorrow could be too late, let’s do now what we need to do’.”

“I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world — a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet.”

—Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005

Hugo Chavez - Speech Delivered at the 16th World Youth Festiva
http://mltoday.com/hugo-chavez-speech-delivered-at-the-16th-world-youth-festiva

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...or this one...

Jane Fonda sounds climate change alarm in Toronto
The Star ^ | July 4, 2015 | Christopher Reynolds

"The climate change problem is the issue of our civilization. It will affect everything about our lives if we don’t do something about it," she [Jane Fonda] says.
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Here's Hanoi Jane remarking on the agenda that Obama refers to as (quote)
"The fundamental transformation of the United States of America"...

November 22, 1970 -- During a fund-raising tour for GI deserters, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Black Panthers, Jane Fonda is quoted in the Detroit Free Press as telling a University of Michigan audience:

"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist," and "The peace proposal of the Viet Cong is the only honorable, just, possible way to achieve peace in Vietnam."
http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=Timeline
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Fonda made the following statement at the University of Texas:
"We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right." --Karen Elliott Dallas Morning News December 11, 1971

From 1972: "I am not a do-gooder, I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman."

[scooby321]

I go to Church on Sunday to hear the Gospel of Jesus

My Church preaches the Gospel and the way to connect with the teachings of Jesus.

I would not sit in a Church that became the consequences of Man.

I left many Churches such as Methodist and Presbyterian because they joined the National Council of Churches and turned humanist.

[denydenydeny]

Pope Francis is not going anywhere others havent. John Paul II wasn’t really different in this respect. He had his anti-capitalist moments too.

There's a difference between "moments" and a wholesale campaign. Francis bluntly says that capitalism "kills"--a term he won't apply to the ongoing genocide of Christians in the Muslim world.

[catfish1957]

That treasonous bitch should have spent her life in prison. A lot of Vietnam vets blood are permanently stained on her hands.

[ETL]

I left many Churches such as Methodist and Presbyterian because they joined the National Council of Churches and turned humanist.

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Re: National Council of Churches

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: Institute For Policy Studies (IPS)

IPS’s [Institute For Policy Studies] Washington, DC headquarters quickly became a resource center for national reporters and a place for KGB agents from the nearby Soviet embassy to convene and strategize. Cora Weiss headed one of the IPS's most successful forays -- into Riverside Church in Manhattan. She was invited there in 1978 by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin to run the church's Disarmament Program, which sought to consolidate Soviet nuclear superiority in Europe -- in the name of "peace." In 1982 Weiss helped organize the largest pro-disarmament demonstration ever held. Staged in New York City, the rally was attended by a coalition of communist organizations.

During her decade-long tenure at Riverside, which became home to the National Council of Churches, Weiss regularly received Russian KGB agents, Sandinista friends, and Cuban intelligence agents. Weiss became infamous for her role in the psychological warfare conducted against U.S. prisoners of war held in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam War.

The Liberation News Service, which is a news source for hundreds of "alternative" publications nationwide (with antiwar, Marxist-oriented perspectives), was founded in 1967 with IPS assistance."

[lots more at link...]

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991

[Nextrush]

I think he takes positions which make the big business and big banking elites quite happy whether its global warming or immigration and so on.

The banking, business and political elites that buy into ‘climate change’ and ‘open borders’ are also hypocrites pretending to care about the world and people when they’re really caring about themselves.

[redgolum]

When I was a kid, the bathroom in the local courthouse had Jane Fonda Urinal mints.

I asked my Dad why we were peeing on the strange ladies picture, and he couldn’t stop laughing.