Posted on 10/22/2021 6:28:12 PM PDT by marshmallow
SÃO PAULO – A São Paulo state legislator sparked outrage among Catholics in Brazil after a speech in which he insulted an archbishop, the Brazilian episcopate as a whole and even Pope Francis.
State legislator Frederico Braun D’Ávila, a supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro in the São Paulo State legislature, attacked Archbishop Orlando Brandes of Aparecida during a legislative session on Oct. 14.
Two days earlier, on the feast of Our Lady of Aparecida, Brandes had criticized Bolsonaro’s pro-gun stance and the dissemination of fake news in the country. The archbishop’s remarks came just a few hours before the president visited the Aparecida basilica.
“You bum, you rascal, who is subjected to that equally bum of a pope. The last thing you take care of is the spirit, the well-being and the comfort of the people’s souls,” D’Avila said.
D’Ávila also criticized the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB).
“Who do you think you are to use your cassock and the altar in order to do political proselytism? You shameless pedophiles, the CNBB is a cancer that has to be extirpated from Brazil,” he added.
D’Ávila, a longtime leader in agribusiness and a member of Bolsonaro’s former Social Liberal Party, is an outspoken advocate of re-establishing Brazil’s monarchy, which was abolished in 1889, and conservative values.
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At first it seemed the pope was calling for a bum!
The pope is a communist.
Well, since this pope publicly defended a convicted pederast in that area, he is a bum.
Mind, that is “defended” after conviction. A civil court found the pervert guilty and the pope wrote a large analysis disagreeing. Probably along the lines of : “all love is the same”.
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