Venezuela's bishops let the pope have it on the reality of life under socialism

American Thinker ^ | 06/12/2017 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

It probably wasn't easy but Venezuela's bishops have managed to buttonhole Pope Francis for a rundown on the facts of life in Marxist Venezuela.

At their “request,” Pope Francis met Venezuela’s top bishops Thursday. Discussions centered on the country’s growing political unrest against a “cruelly” repressive government.

So it was the bishops who had to ask or else they'd go unheard.

That they even had to ask is evidence of how opaque the pope has been about the nightmare engulfing the retrograde communist country.

“The situation is very, very grave,” [Venezuelan Cardinal Jorge] Urosa Savino told Crux Tuesday. “What we see is a people who are suffering, who are being humiliated, and who are being cruelly repressed” by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime.

Government moves — through the Supreme Justice Tribunal — to “take the constitutional faculties from the National Assembly,” while at the “same time giving the president a series of super powers,” said Urosa Savino, have “worsened” the political crisis in the last months.

Despite a partial u-turn by the top court, the latest stream of protests has been non-stop since April 4th. The ranks span all social classes. The death toll numbers above 70 with the wounded in the thousands.

“The dead have been caused by the repression, created by state forces and civilian groups armed by the government acting to strengthen government repression, which is something criminal,” said Cardinal Urosa Savino.

Poverty, unrest, impunity, corruption, and widespread shortages in food, electricity, medicine, and basic goods now define what had once been one of the richest countries in Latin America.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

To the Communist Pope, the issue isn’t Socialism, its just getting the right, benevolent dictator to manage the system. Then everyone would have food and housing and they’d be living in a Socialist paradise.

[\/\/ayne]

Communism is all about pretending: pretending it’s a wonderful utopia. Being a useful idiot is all about ignoring the truth and believing the pretense long after it becomes ridiculous.

[I want the USA back]

The pope-a-dope will just excommunicate them.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The ImPopester is a committed Marxist.
He does not care about the suffering of Venezuelans.

[pgkdan]

Can the Marxist ideal really be that strong in a pope who has no interest in its inevitable outcome?

When the pope's a communist it certainly can.

[Slyfox]

Frankie is as Frankie does.

[Arthur McGowan]

If the bishops had brought a gay couple, a tranny couple, and an abortionist with them, Bergoglio would have beaten down the door to snuggle with them.

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[arthurus]

To a Marxist, these things simply are irrelevant. To make an omelet, etc. The Utopian world they say will appear in the future if they are allowed to design it will be Utopian, or not, for only the surviving small part of the population subjected to the omelet making process.

[Impy]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/12/upshot/the-politics-of-americas-religious-leaders.html?src=twr&_r=3

Seen this? Interesting.

Catholic Priests slightly more likely to be registered Republican if I’m reading this chart right. Something like 32R-29D.

Orthodox Rabbis more likely to be rat, 38-25.

Reform and Conservative Rabbits overwhelmingly rat, Conservative Rabbis (89%) much more rat than their congregations (62%).

Wisconsin Lutheran (I’ve never heard of them, 370K practitioners) Pastors are very Republican.