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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speaking truth to power. I’m not so generous regarding the Pope.
Whiskey Tango Francis.
The guy is fairly mild, at least by Catholic Caucus standards.
Pagan Communist is more fitting.
That’s outrageous!
He’s not a bum!
He’s the Anti-Christ!
Bergoglio seems to be a bigger creep than McCain
Are you sure?
I checked my Papal Insult Outrage Meter, and it's hovering about zero ...
It’s hard to hold your tongue from saying the truth forever
The truth does hurt.
Yeah, I thought he was understating it too.
If the purple dress fits.
A bum is generous.
Well there is at least one person out there that is not in Comrade Pope’s fan club.
The Pope is not God, but a man and this Pope is not a good man. No problem calling him or any other past or future Pope out. Read you history on the Popes and see what scum bags of them really were.
Bum is a nice word for this marxist phony.
No religious leader is above any of mankind.....there are good men and bad men and everything in between. However this Pope certainly has betrayed the office of which he holds.
With this particular Pope, many would say the Brazilian is not wrong.
I’ll call Frankie a lowlife scumbag Marxist thug right to his ugly mug.
Demon, anti-pope, pretender, Stalinazi, abomination, Sodomite enabler. Scores of pejoratives to use against Frank. ‘Bum’ is about as mild as they come.
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