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Posted on 09/22/2015 8:09:09 PM PDT by Dqban22
POPE FRANCIS DESECRATES MEMORY OF CATHOLIC MARTYRS IN CUBA
The Castro regime's reward for mass murder.
September 22, 2015
Humberto Fontova
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260201/pope-francis-desecrates-memory-catholic-martyrs-humberto-fontova
“Dear Mom and Dad,
I’ve just received the news that I’ll be executed by firing squad in the morning. I assure you, dear parents, that I’ve never felt such spiritual tranquility as I do now. I feel content knowing that very shortly I’ll be with God, waiting and praying for you, my parents. I realize this news is painful for you, but please have faith in the Eternal Life. I want you all to rise above this and know that God, in his infinite mercy, has given me the grace to reconcile with Him… Hugs and kisses, not tears, for everyone. Goodbye, my family. Have faith in God.
Long Live Christ the King!
-- Alberto Tapia “Apunten!" ("Aim!") yelled the unnerved firing squad leader the following morning April 18, 1961 … “Listos!" ("Ready!")
“-- Viva Cristo Rey!” ("Long love Christ the King!)"
suddenly yelled Alberto Tapia shortly interrupting the murder process and greatly unnerving the murderers. “Fuego!!!” ("Fire!") finally yelled the furious executioner.
A deafening blast and Soviet bullets ripped apart the head and torso of yet another young Cuban martyr. Albert Tapia was barely 21 years old, typical age for most of Castro and Che’s murder victims.
The defiant yells ("Viva Cristo Rey!" "Viva Cuba Libre!" "Abajo Comunismo!") from the bound and staked martyrs “would make the walls of La Cabana prison tremble!” wrote eyewitness to the slaughter, Armando Valladares, who suffered 22 torture-filled years in Castro’s prisons and was later appointed by Ronald Reagan as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
Given their valiant defiance even during their last seconds alive, by mid-1961 the mere binding and blindfolding of Castro and Che’s young murder victims wasn’t enough.
The fine folks who hosted Pope Francis’ in Cuba this week then began ordering that the Catholic youths also be gagged. The shaken firing-squads demanded it. The yells were badly unnerving the trigger-pullers, you see.
As the fine folks who hosted Pope Francis in Cuba this week yanked the young Catholic heroes from their cells, bent their arms back, and bound their hands, two more Communist guards came into play. One grabbed the struggling victim’s hair and jerked his head back, trying to steady him. The other taped his mouth shut.
Raul Castro (who hosted the Pope at yesterday’s mass) and Che Guevara (whose visage formed the backdrop for the mass) were the most notorious executioners during the early years of the Cuban Revolution. The orders, of course, all issued from Fidel Castro, with whom Pope Francis went out of his way to visit and smilingly hob-nob after the mass.
“I am not Christ or a philanthropist,” wrote Che Guevara in a letter to his mother. “I am all the contrary of a Christ -- In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.”
As mentioned: an enormous image of Che Guevara formed the backdrop to Pope Francis’s mass in Havana yesterday. Castro’s KGB and STASI-tutored regime prepared for the Pope’s visit carefully. Any unsightly protests would obviously mar the occasion, especially for a regime long-accustomed to preening in front of the international media mirror. So Cuban dissidents (especially Catholic ones) were rounded up, often brutally, as captured in this video.
"The facts and figures are irrefutable. No one will any longer be able to claim ignorance or uncertainty about the criminal nature of Communism," wrote the New York Times (no less!) about "The Black Book of Communism."
This study found that Castro and Guevara’s firing squads murdered upwards of 16,000 Cubans, the equivalent, given the U.S. population, of almost one million executions.
Some more perspective: the UN (the same United Nations that proudly features Cuba on its Human Rights Council, by the way) charged former Serbian dictator Slodoban Milosevic with “genocide” for ordering 8000 executions.
And far from any of the repentance the Catholic Church supposedly requires for forgiveness, the Castro brothers have always doubled- and even tripled-down on their gloating for those thousands of murders, historically denouncing the young victims as “CIA mercenaries” and “terrorists.”
None of this has prevented the Castro regime from receiving the most papal visits recently of any Latin America nation, equaling the number of papal visits to Brazil, with a population of 200 million, 130 million of them declared Catholics.
In contrast, Cuba has a population of 11 million, only a tiny fraction of which are practicing Catholics.
Someone’s got some serious “‘splainin'” to do for this papal fetish of constantly visiting Stalinist Cuba and chumming around with her Stalinist rulers.
Interestingly, more Popes (three) have recently visited Cuba -- a nation with many more crypto-voodooists than Catholics -- than have visited Mexico (with 97 million Catholics). Hello? And as Joan Rivers used to ask: “Can we talk?” (about this glaring and –for many—disgusting incongruity.)
For many of us, the Papal motivation for visiting Cuba seems no different from Beyonce’s, Conan O’Brien’s, Jack Nicholson’s, Oliver Stone’s, Sean Penn’s, etc. The Popes get plenty of press and get to poke Uncle Sam in the eye. In this respect, they seem no different from all those loud-mouthed, Castro-hugging celebrity popinjays.
Francis planned an encounter with the poor and prisoners in United States; but in Cuba he did not meet with the Cuban political prisoners of conscience, he did not even dare to receive the Cuban dissidents who are the real representatives of the whole Cuban people captive in the island prison.
For Francis socialism is a form of Christianity in stark opposition to the constant condemnation of socialism in all its forms by the Magisterium of the Church from Pope Leo XIII to Benedict XVI who considered communism as “intrinsically evil” (Pope Pius XI Enciclical “Divini Redemptoris”.)
Thank you for posting this. Truly this pope’s behavior in Cuba demonstrates what a disgraceful man he is.
And you hear how humble he is, well take a look at him, he seems quite self satisfied to me. He “really thinks who he is” as we say in Jersey.
Hey Pope, welcome to New York, NOW GO HOME.
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"A gigantic image of Jesus Christ is now covering the whole facade of the National Library, at the right wing of the Revolution Square. Meanwhile, the other side is occupied by the altar where the Pope will say a mass "
The bottom says, "Vengan a Mi" (Come to Me)
Cuba Libre! The Martyrs must be remembered. Death to the Castro Brothers and their followers! I want to visit Cuba when it is a free Democratic nation only. JFK Could have done it—but he choaked at the Bay of Pigs.
Not a Shill for the progressives
The Cuban martyrs are in excellent company, as he also desecrates the memories of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More.
He has a right to set his own agenda.
He didn’t meet with the progressive dissents. Did you read the OP?
I’m curious. Are there any photos of that with actual people in front of it looking on?
Francis’ agenda was clear since the first day of his papacy when he called back to his side radical Marxist Fr. Leonardo Boof, who was silenced by H.H. John Paul II, and also all the leaders of the proscribed Marxist liberation theology, a perversion of the Gospels with the main tenets and praxis of communism, that intrinsically evil ideology whose legacy is more than 100 million deaths, extreme misery and oppression.
Socialism in all its disguises has been condemned by the Magisterium of the Church since Pope Leo XIII to Pope Benedict XVI.
Is he the Black Pope ?
{He has a right to set his own agenda.}
Yes, and others have a right to assess and criticize.
As far as I know (not being Catholic) he is only considered infallible (not by Protestants) in matters of religion.
The social agenda he promotes is antithetical to Christianity.
In the Evangelical Church in which I was raised (and am not affiliated with now), many believed a Pope would be the Anti-Christ. Is that what the Black Pope is?
Excellent story about the tragedy of saints in Cuba. Pope John Paul II went there in 1993 and watched miracles. Francis went there and just had coffee.
The true test of Pope Francis’ power will be to clearly state the following statement: “Medjugorje is fake.” If he says that, then all the greedy people in Medjugorje will see their income shrink, just as if Tom Perry, 92 year old leader of Mormonism stated the following: “The Book of Mormon is fake.” All the income would shrink at BYU.
Why is it that John Paul II did not say “Medjugorje is fake?” Because he used “Medjugorje to crush Moscow which is what happened. Now Medjuorgje is a useless fake.
And how long will this Potemkin Village sheet last when the Pope has left?
I’m taking bets. Less than a week. Any one else got a time period?
Remember, Obama advisor Anita Dunn liked both Mother Teresa and Mao Tse-tung. One was a great humanitarian; the other the world’s greater mass murderer and a “socialist”.
Yes, people can be bipolar fools, dupes and mental cases. I hope you wont’ drink the Jonestown Koolaid of Castroville. It will destroy your mind.
I don’t think it was ever expected to be up for very long. It’s not a permanent structure.
If you’re thinking it may be photoshopped, it’s not. People reporting from Cuba saw it.
No, I don’t think it is photoshopped, I was wondering how many regular Cubans were able to see it; it obviously isn’t made to be there long. The picture is unusual in that this is a big event and there’s no crowd in it. Not a soul; it looks like the photographer wanted it to look abandoned.
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