THE JESUIT INFLUENCE ON POPE FRANCIS IS DESTRUCTIVE! # 2

THE JESUIT INFLUENCE ON POPE FRANCIS IS DESTRUCTIVE! # 2 VERITAS - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - LABOR DAY MONDAY, SEPT. 4, 2017 LIFESITENEWS SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 HAD THIS EDITORS NOTE: "THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATIONS ARE THOSE OF THE BOOK'S EDITOR AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF LIFESITE NEWS. THE HEADLINE READ AS FOLLOWS" "A Communist Pope?" An Interview with the author George Neumayr" We continue with an unbelievable interview: Maike Hickson: Who of his closest advisers has a socialist worldview? George Neumayr: Pope Francis used the strident socialist Leonardo Boff, a disgraced liberation theologian from Brazil who left the priesthood, as an adviser when drafting his environmentalist encyclical "Laudato Si." Boff says Francis asked to see his plans for the promotion of world government through the U.N. MH: As you write in your book, Pope Francis, when visiting Cuba, celebrated a Holy Mass " in the shadow of Che Guevara." Could you explain this scene and its symbolism? GN: Saying a Mass in the shadow of a mass murderer like Guevera was propaganda gift to the brothers Castro. Cuban dissidents were appalled by the scene, with even some liberals expressing unease. MH: Could you also describe to us Pope Francis" reaction when he received, as a gift, from Bolivian President Morales a crucifix in the form of a hammer and sickle? What kind of message did he send by his reaction? GN: That grotesque cross had been designed by the late Jesuit, Fr. Luis Espinal, whose memory Pope Francis had honored upon his arrival in Bolivia. Other popes would have rejected such a perversity; Pope Francis accepted it warmly, saying that he "understood" it. He thereby left the impression that he regards one of the most anti-Christian systems ever devised as harmless. MH: As you write, Pope Francis has had several mentors in his life who were pro-communist. Could you first tell us about Esther Ballestrino and what he later, as archbishop in Buenos Aires, did for her burial? GN: She was, by his own description, a "fervent communist." He has described her as one of his mentors. "I owe a great amount to that great woman," he has said, saying, that she "taught me so much about politics." She introduced him to communist periodicals and literature. When she got into trouble with authorities, he hid her Marxist tracts in a Jesuit library, according to the author James Carrol (who wrote up the story approvingly). The reporter John Allen says that when her family asked for her to be buried in a Catholic cemetery, Bergoglio "readidly consented" even though he knew she wasn't a believing Catholic. MH: Could you tell us more about Pope Francis' relationship with Leonidas Braletta? GN: He was a communist filmmaker in Latin America, whose writings a young Jorge Bergoglio devoured. He says he would rush to get the publication of the communist party in Argentina, Nuestra Pala y Propositos, because he was "enchanted" by Barletta's writings. Bergoglia says they "helped me in my political formation". MH: You report that, while in Argentina as a younger priest, the- Father Bergoglio was close to the Jesuit General Superior, Fr. Pedro Arrupe who himself opened up the Jesuit order to socialist ideas. Could you explain this thesis a little more? GN: He as a protege of Arrupe, who identifiede Bergoglio as a rising liberal star in the order. That is why he made him provincial at the age of 36. Arrupe presided over the order during its most intense period of liberalization and used Bergoglio as liberal enforcer at the infamous worldwide gathering of Jesuits in 1975 that sealed the order's socialist and modernist direction. (to be continued) George H. Kubeck