Posted on 07/09/2015 7:32:01 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Pope Francis arrived in Bolivia on Wednesday on the second leg of his South American tour and immediately insisted that the Catholic Church continue to play an important role in society amid efforts by the government of President Evo Morales to curb its influence....
Morales came to power championing Bolivia's 36 indigenous groups and enshrined their rights in the constitution, and under his leadership Bolivia's economy has boomed thanks to high prices for its natural gas and minerals. But Morales has roiled the local church by taking a series of anti-clerical initiatives, including a new constitution that made the overwhelmingly Catholic nation a secular country.
In his speech, Francis noted the Catholic faith took "deep root" in Bolivia centuries ago "and has continued to shed its light upon society, contributing to the development of the nation and shaping its culture."
"The voice of the bishops, which must be prophetic, speaks to society in the name of the church, our mother, from her preferential, evangelical option for the poor" ....
In a deeply personal gesture soon after he arrived, Francis stopped his motorcade along the highway heading into town at the site where a Jesuit priest, the Rev. Luis Espinal, was left in 1980 after being detained and tortured by Bolivia's paramilitary squads.
"Remember one of our brothers, a victim of interests that didn't want him to fight for Bolivia's freedom," Francis said from the popemobile to a crowd gathered at the site. "Father Espinal preached the Gospel, the Gospel that bothered them, and because of this they got rid of him."
Morales gave Francis some politically loaded gifts, including one apparently with a link to Espinal — a crucifix carved into a wooden hammer and sickle, the Communist symbol uniting labor and peasants. The slain priest had a similar crucifix.
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I believe it was pulled because it incorrectly reported that he said “this isn’t right”. Fr Lombardi has since clarified that he said something along the lines of “I didn’t know”, not “this isn’t right”. See the other thread.
“If we are to combat evil, I think it is useful to know what sort of evil we face.”
All evil is Satanic evil, and consequently displays commonalities.
“Going to war with an enemy we do not understand”
Since Satan is smarter than we are, full understanding is beyond us. However, it is certainly possible to learn to recognize the commonalities to which I referred above.
It seems to me that the lie most urgently to be rebutted is that the murdered priest was working for “freedom” and “democracy.”
He was “of the left,” and was therefore working to reduce all mankind under a Satanic tyranny.
It used to be snide to say of a person that he was “more Catholic than the pope.” Now we have a pope who is CINW (Catholic in no way).
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