Posted on 11/27/2016 1:44:29 AM PST by detective
On this day in 1962, Blessed John XXIII excommunicated Cuba’s “maximum leader,” supposedly on the basis of a 1949 decree by Pope Pius XII forbidding Catholics from supporting communist governments.
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Somebody better tell Bergoglio. He’s in the vestry prepping for a Requiem Mass at this very moment...
BINGO!!!!
This is a true statement or are you making up lies?
In view of his self-proclaimed sorrow at Castro’so demise, it isn’t all that much of a stretch.
So you were making up lies.
Published Friday, January 3, A.D. 2014 | By The Motley Monk
*On this day in 1962, Blessed John XXIII excommunicated Cuba’s “maximum leader,” supposedly on the basis of a 1949 decree by Pope Pius XII forbidding Catholics from supporting communist governments.
A couple of years back, Andrea Torinella of Vatican Insider wrote about the genesis of the excommunication, finding it to be somewhat of a “mystery” that may not be related to the 1949 decree.
Archbishop Dino Staffa, who at the time was a member of the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and wrote the decree, alleged the reasons were not related to supporting Castro’s support of communism, but to having committed or collaborated in acts of violence against the Catholic hierarchy.
Indeed, months prior to the excommunication, Bishop Eduardo Roza Masvidal and 135 priests had been expelled from Cuba. In his declaration, Archbishop Staffa made reference to this and to various other problems existing at the time with regard to the Catholic Church in Cuba.
Torinella wonders whether the declaration, which coincided with a broader message John XXIII send to Castro, was an attempt to balance the effect of the Pope’s words could have–which some considered too expansive–while also reminding other Catholic political leaders what canon law had in store for those who would conspire against or bring harm to the Catholic hierarchy.
As a result, Castro never received an ad personam excommunication and neither did Blessed John XXIII make any decisions in this regard.*
It is, of course, not up to me to judge Castro. I can, though, note, that even though Castro turned decidedly more religious in his advanced age, he remained staunchly communist.
And the current pope admired him, went to see him, paved the way for bammy to make a one-sided deal with him, and now is crying over his death.
In 1950, after being severely tortured, Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty was railroaded to jail by the country's Communist regime. Pope Pius XII excommunicated every Hungarian Communist who took part in this travesty.
Did Frankie the idiot pope reinstate him?
I think the word you are looking for is “satire.” Calm down.
No, "lies" is the correct word.
Sorry, but you are wrong. And if you don’t understand the difference between satire and deliberate lies you are probably not going to find FR very congenial as there is quite a bit of it here.
It wasn't satire.
What's disturbing is the way you defend that guy's lies.
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