Posted on 03/13/2013 9:44:06 PM PDT by SMCC1
The elevation Wednesday of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the Roman Catholic Church’s 266th pope and the first from Latin America brought cheers across South America but also served as a reminder of the church’s role during the region’s dark days of dictatorship in the latter half of the 20th century.
More recently, Bergoglio has been known for his confrontations with Argentina’s last two presidents, the husband and wife team of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner.
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I remember reading in a Mark Steyn (?) book once that although the US has exported its popular culture all over the world, we haven't exported our capitalist system very well.
I don't much about the Kirchners though...will have to research.
Socialists made the mess, why should they get to "clean it up"? which they will never do
The Kirchners are bad people. Think of the Perons.
“social justice” means an altogether different thing to the Catholic Church than to the Leftist political activists who have hijacked the term making it virtually meaningless to most of us, but in fact used to camouflage their political aims. Someone else can better explain the meaning of the term to the Church.
Didn’t say they should. They need capitalists and don’t seem to have any. fascist to socialist to fascist back to socialist and so on.
I am fully prepared for Freepers to salt any thread about our new pontiff with comments about his “supporting the junta”, the same way they did with the last pope and the NAZI Youth.
They are/were radical left wing Peronists. Queen Cristina (Plastic Fantastic), was one of Hugo Chavez’ favorite puppets, and also the most unstable. She’s guilty of seizing companies illegally, taking illegal donations, unmitigated profligacy, and possibly murder. In short, she’s a classic nutjob whose hobbies include counting her diamond necklaces, chewing coca leaves with Evo Morales, and threatening to invade the Falkland Islands with kayaks.
Was he a member of the “Peron Youth”?
No, but evidently he was a pal of the evil dentist Laurence Olivier!
No, he’s refering to the military junta that removed Peron’s wife in a coup, led by Rafael Videla. It was an anti-Soviet regime the US backed, and one that got a little out of control. They killed many innocent people along with communist guerrillas, and drafted hundreds of young boys who were never seen again. It was a dark period in Argentina’s history.
Well, that didn’t take long.
Ratzinger was an easy target. This guy a little more difficult but doable.
The point: all Popes are BAD! And SCARY!
How quickly the Left finds its "narrative."
Man, I miss SCTV. A lot of it was funnier than SNL.
Let them try. The Catholic bashers are irrational anyway.
Trying to make any alleged ties to the Argentine junta as a bad thing is absurd, I mean how many people here still defend Pinochet who more or less did the same as Videla et al?
Odds are they’ll more likely see “Social Justice” and accuse him of Crypto-Communism.
Other than Guido Sarducci (God rest Don Novello's soul), that would be a "find the Pope in the Pizza" pope for the pizza people!
>>Odds are they’ll more likely see “Social Justice” and accuse him of Crypto-Communism.<<
Sadly, that has already been suggested (and wrongly so): Check many comments on the live HABEMUS PAPAS thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2996496/posts
“Care for the poor” (as Christ asked us all to do personally) somehow was interpreted by the deluded as Marxism.
My take is that Pope Francis I will ask people across the world to look into THEIR INDIVIDUAL HEARTS to help the poor (as many Conservatives do now).
Sal and NYer can describe things better than I...
Oh and yes, I do look to and help the poor. Through CCF and other groups that HELP THEM STEP OUT OF BEING POOR! That is the highest good any of us can do (IMHO).
Don Novello ain’t dead.
Are you implying Novello is no longer alive?
Videla’s regime caused double the amount of deaths when compared to Pinochet. The majority of Pinochet’s victims were trained in Cuba to install communism in Chile. Videla’s regime was less discriminate when it came to their war against Soviet agents.
To compare Pinochet to Videla is inaccurate. Pinochet never harbored Nazi war criminals as Videla did. He brought prosperity to Chile, whereas Videla brought total stagnation. He set up the relatively functional democratic process Chile has today, and voluntarily stepped down to give Chileans democracy. Videla had no such intentions, nor did his successors, who were willing to go into a bloody war to preserve their power.
I don’t deny many of the ‘right wing’ Latin American dictatorships we propped up were corrupt and murderous (Noriega), but I think it’s unfair to put Pinochet, who saved his country from a Cuba-esque fate (100,000 dead) at the hands of Salvador Allende, in with the others. He was unique. In fact, when he handed over power to the people, he was almost elected president (44%), not exactly what you’d expect for a bloodthirsty tyrant, which is what the left paints him as. Similarly to Mubarak, Pinochet was not nearly as bad as the left make out.
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