Pope was seen as enemy of Poland’s communist regime: report

Radio Poland ^ | March 2019

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Newly unearthed documents show that Pope John Paul II was seen as the main enemy of Poland’s communist-era rulers, according to a report

The Polish-born pope was identified as the main enemy of the communist system by the 4th Department of the former Security Service (SB), public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported on Thursday, citing findings by a team of journalists who have accessed an archive of previously unknown documents in the United States.

The ill-famed 4th Department monitored and tracked opposition activists, among them journalists, lawyers, healthcare employees and industrial workers.

According to the director of Polish Radio 3, Wiktor Świetlik, the church and especially the pope as its head were seen as the biggest threats to those in power at the time.

The newly unearthed documents contain references to talks John Paul II held with the then US President Ronald Reagan, the IAR news agency reported.

John Paul II served as pope from October 16, 1978 until his death on April 2, 2005.

He was the third longest-serving pontiff in history and was declared a saint in 2014.

The files, which have been seen by journalists from Poland’s Rzeczpospolita daily and public broadcaster Polish Radio, also include records referring to Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, a charismatic Catholic priest and supporter of the Solidarity trade union movement who was killed by communist secret police in the 1980s.

Among the notes is a recommendation that Popiełuszko be "silenced," according to Świetlik.

The files have been traced at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in Stanford, California, which holds several hundred pages of documents of the former Polish communist security service, including documents and personal notes of onetime Interior Minister Czesław Kiszczak....

[OrangeHoof]

Back in the day when popes denounced evil rather than dismissing it.

[irishjuggler]

How in the heck did we go, in the space of three short decades, from a pope whom commies loathed to a pope who thinks commies are the bees’ knees?

[broken_arrow1]

Francis would have fit right in.

[neverevergiveup]

“How in the heck did we go, in the space of three short decades, from a pope whom commies loathed to a pope who thinks commies are the bees’ knees?”

Ask yourself whether you think it ‘just happened’, or was on purpose.

[gcparent]

He was a pope’s pope.

[Redmen4ever]

Pope Francis says it isn’t bad to be a communist. He says, “if anything, the communists think like Christians.” A prior Pope, in an encyclical, advocated fascism. I say, contrariwise, communists and fascists think killing people, even millions of them, is nothing, as long as that advances the cause. Hey, but I’m not a Pope. Don’t believe me just because you think I’m infallible. Do communists and fascists start aggressive wars and engage in mass murder? Think about this yourself. Consider the evidence. Then, think about the following: why did Bernie Sanders go to the Soviet Union for his honeymoon? Is killing people his aphrodisiac? Yes, all of us sin. But, for some of us - like Charles Manson, Adolf Hitler, the Columbine murderers, ISIS, and communists - killing people is an art form.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Ummmm, yeah...about that.
Tom Clancy nailed this concept several years ago.

[dfwgator]

Father Jerzy Popieluszko - Murdered by Communist Thugs

[dangerdoc]

Red Rabbit

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Pope Francis says it isn’t bad to be a communist. He says, “if anything, the communists think like Christians.”

"The Socialist - the extreme and revolutionary party of Socialists - are very fond of telling us they are reviving in modern days the best principles of the Christian era. They consider they are the political embodiment of Christianity, though, to judge by the language which some of them use and the spirit of envy, hatred, and malice with which they go about their work, you would hardly imagine they had studied the teaching of the Founder of Christianity with the attention they profess to have given to the subject. - (Hear, hear.)

But there is one great difference between Socialists of the Christian era and those of which Mr Victor Grayson is the apostle. The Socialism of the Christian era was based on the idea that "all mine is yours', but the Socialism of Mr Grayson is based on the idea that 'all yours is mine’. - Winston Churchill (22 Jan. 1908)

[GBA]

Seems like he was the last good Pope and now we are experiencing the consequences.

Satan’s losses are now Satan’s wrath and vomit overwhelming the Church like a tsunami from his imperfect storm against God.