Posted on 05/31/2021 6:53:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
SÃO PAULO – A joke made by Pope Francis concerning the Brazilians spurred outrage among some groups in the South American country.
On May 26, Brazilian Father João Paulo Victor asked the pontiff to send a blessing to the Brazilians after the general audience in the Vatican. A video shows how Pope Francis jokingly told the priest in Italian: “There’s no salvation for you. Too much cachaça [a Brazilian sugarcane spirit] and no praying.” The pope then blessed Victor and another person.
Victor’s cheerful reaction to the comment was not different from its initial effect on most Brazilians. But after the video began to circulate in social media, a wave of criticism began to grow, mostly from backers of conservative President Jair Bolsonaro.
In a public letter on the pro-Bolsonaro website Jornal da Cidade Online, lawyer Jorge Béja asked Pope Francis to “apologize to Brazil and to Brazilians” after his “tough, untrue, cruel, and hurtful words” uttered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“In a moment like that, of so much pain, you imply that not even the pope’s prayers will work because there’s no solution for us, Brazilians; we’re not worthy of the pope’s prayers, because we drink too much cachaça and pray too little,” he wrote.
Béja demanded an immediate apology from Pope Francis, stating that Brazilians are “a Christian people” and that Pope Francis was able to witness this fact during his visit to Brazil in the World Youth Day of 2013.
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Viotti pointed to the Brazilian “devotion and praying spirit” and said that any foreigner who visits the country can identify it. That’s why, he added, abortion could never be legalized in Brazil, while it’s now legal in Argentina, the pope’s homeland.
“For Catholics like us, it causes strangeness and bewilderment the fact that Pope Francis frequently has rough words to address countries governed by conservatives which, to a certain extent, fight the society’s dechristianization, while only rarely he shows criticism towards leftist governments,” Viotti said.
Stay classy, Bergoglio.
Such a good point about Bergoglio’s antipathy almost invariably being directed at countries he perceives as having right-wing leadership. No enemies to the left; no friends to the right. It’s a hell of a thing to have a pope like this, but here we are.
sad, even outrageous.
The Pope Francis Little Book of Insults gets thicker.
1/2 lime
1 1/2 to 2 1/2 teaspoons superfine sugar, to taste
2 ounces cachaça
Lime wheel, for garnish.
Lighten up, Francis!
Great to know abortion is not legal there. I wouldn’t have guessed that. I suppose I know about as much about Brazil as Bergoglio does.
Ah, the world is so messed up now. A false Pope and a fake POTUS, things are just going swimmingly!
And here’s the thing, this is all on us. The West is destroying itself. Nobody foisted these two maroons on us. I mean they were foisted on “us” by “them”, but “they” are still “us”. Unfortunately.
“but “they” are still “us”
No, “they” are the criminals that fraudulently produced millions of fake votes to make it look like President Trump lost.
“We” are the tens of millions of Americans who legally cast one vote per person, giving President Trump the victory.
“They” are not Americans. “They” should be on trial for crimes against humanity.
Though I am hurt, I am not slain.
I lay me down to bleed a while,
Then I’ll rise and fight again.
(Ronald Reagan, quoted upon his loss of the 1976 GOP nomination.)
His jokes are right up there with Xiden’s.
The guy is disgraceful.
I don’t have a lot of use for this Pope, as I think he is too devoted to liberal causes, however, in this instance, I may want to cut him some slack.
I think he meant the remark in the lighthearted way it was said, nothing more than that. Not necessarily malicious.
His timing was bad though, as many Brazilians are having a truly hard time economically.
You could say His Holiness committed a ‘Kamala’; a faux pas, thoughtless statement by a public figure on a serious topic.
See Kamala’s remark on “Enjoy Your ‘Long Weekend!’
Like most South American Catholic clergy, the Pope’s a commie.
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