BLOOD LETTERS # 1

BLOOD LETTERS # 1

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    Excerpts from the book by Lian Xi, "Blood Letters" The Untold of Lin Zhad, A Martyr in Mao's China.

Introduction - 1-4

    According to the authorities, the poem "A Day in Prometheus's Passion" "viciously attacked" the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the socialist system and inspired fellow counterrevolutionaries to blatantly call for 'a peaceful, democratic, and free' China. She was sentenced to twenty years in prison.  "This is a shameful ruling!" Lin Zhao wrote on the back of the verdict the next day, in her own blood."But I heard it with pride! It is the enemy's estimation of my individual act of combat. Deep inside my heart I feel the pride of a combatant! I have done too little. It is far from enough. Yes, I must do more to live up to your estimation! Other than that, this so-called ruling is completely meaningless to me! I despise it. It was unexpected jarring note in the sympathy of Mao's revolution....

    The revolution had turned communism into a sacred creed and a mass religion in China, complete with its Marxist and Maoist scriptures, priests (the cadres), and revolutionary liturgy. The cult of Mao dated to the 1940s but blossomed with the publication of Quotations from Chairman Mao  - known in the The Little Red Book  - in 1964. Over one billion copies were printed over the next decade....  At that time when critics of the party had been silenced throughout China, Lin Zhao chose to oppose it openly from her prison cell. "From the day of my arrest I have declared in front of those Communists my identity as a resister," she wrote in a blood letter to her mother from prison. "I have been open in my basic stand as a freedom fighter against communism and against tyranny."

    Lin Zhao's dissent seemed as futile as it was suicidal. What sustained it was her intense religious faith. She has been baptized in her teens a the Laura Haywood Memorial School, a Southern Methodist mission school in her home town of Suzhou, but drifted away from the church when she joined the communist revolution in 1949 to help "emancipate" the masses and create a new, just society, as she believed. Her disenchantment  with the revolution came in the late 1950s, when she was purged as a Rightist - along with 1.2 million others across China for expressing democratic ideas. There-after she gradually returned to a fervent Christian faith.

    As a Christian, she believed that her struggle was both political and spiritual. In a postsenticing letter from prison to the editors of People's Daily - the party's mouthpiece - she explained that in opposing communism, she was following "the line of a servant of God, the political line of Christ." "My life belongs to God," she claimed. I will only be grateful from the bottom of my heart for the honor He bestows on me.  Lin Zhao's defiance of the regime was unparalleled in Mao's China. The tens of millions who perished as a result of CCP rule died as victims, their voices unheard. NO SIGNIFICANT, SECULAR OPPOSITION TO THE IDEOLOGY OF COMMUNISM WAS RECORDED IN CHINA DURING MAO'S REIGN....

    The title of this book comes from Lin Zhao's impassioned means of expressing that dissent. "During her imprisonment," an official document read, Lin Zhao "poked her flesh countless times and used her filthy blood to write hundreds of thousands words of extremely reactionary, extremely malicious letters, notes, and diaries, madly attacking, abusing, and slandering our party and its leader." Her letters were addressed variously to the party propaganda apparatus, the United Nations, the prison authorities, and her mother. She called them her freedom writings."  "As a human being, I fight for my right to live a whole, upright, and clean life - my right to life," she explained. "It shall forever be an irreproachable struggle! Nobody has the right to tell me: in order to live, you must have chains on your neck and endure the humiliation of slavery."

    Lin Zhao's prison writings, which total some 500,000 characters, include essays, poems, letters, and even a play. She wrote in both ink and blood, using the latter when she was denied stationery or as an extreme act of protest. She drew blood with a make-shift prick - a bamboo pick, a hair clip, or the plastic handle of her toothbrush, sharpened against the concrete floor - and held in a plastic spoon, in which she dipped her "pen." often a thin bamboo strip or a straw stem. Her writings were done on paper when it was available and on shirts and torn up bed sheets when it was not.  George H. Kubeck

(Lin Zhao was executed 50 years ago today. The vicious Communist tyranny is still in Cuba & Vietnam.)

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MORAL QUESTIONS RELATING TO NORTH KOREA # 2

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    Dear President Trump,

    You are going to meet the leader, Kim Jon Un of the ruthless communist regime of North Korea in May. May I share with you some of the ideas of friends in my mind came up with in a brain storming event.

7. Everything possible must be done to avoid a war with North Korea.

8. Everything possible must be done with an all out expose of this communist regime via spiritual, moral and humanitarian pleas and messages.  What Assad did in Syria is a drop in the bucket of what the Mafia Communist Family of North Korea has done to its own people. The Free World seeks a unified North and South Korea.

9. The only group blocking this  unification is the Mafia Communist Family Group of Kim Jon Un.

10. Our heroes are the Koreans in the Gulags and the cowards are those that cooperate with the North Korean Mafia.

1. Lest we forget, Communists are masters of deceit and deception. (J. Edgar Hoover)

2. We believe if any chemical weapons were used in Syria the first order came from Putin not Assad.

3. For Communist China to have put up with and promoted Communist North Korea, tell us of the true nature of the leaders of Communist China and communism itself.

4. The continued existence of any kind of Communist regime in  Western Hemisphere is unthinkable.

5. Why? The nature of communism is evil; witness North Korea, contrary to human nature and must be outlawed. Communism is a kind of religion and  used by elite secular atheists like Castro to gain absolute power in a nation.

6. U.S. religious leaders  need to call for prayers for a successful summit meeting. Also,Catholic Churches need to call for prayers, and the  spiritual and intercession help from at least three saintly persons: "Our Lady of Fatima," "St. Pio of Pietrelcina", and  "Blessed Margaret of Costello" O.P. (Future Saint for past and present Korean gulag members.)                                                                                                 

6. A) "Our Lady of Fatima" did it for Communist Russia. The big changes in Russia  were kind of peaceful; not one Russian Communist leader was lined up and shot after decades of Russian communist tyranny. It was slightly different in Romania.

Respectfully Yours,

George H. Kubeck

THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO # 9 OF 25

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    From the book, "Padre Pio: The True Story (revised and expanded) C. Bernard Ruffin). Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Indiana, 46750. These are direct excerpts.

Chapter 2 'Il Bello Francesco - 39-41

   "When he was a middle-aged man, Padre Pio told another priest, "When I was a teenager, I didn't even know how human beings came about. None of the teenagers in Pietrelcina knew anything about sex in those days." Around the same time, Padre Agostino wrote, "I could swear that [Padre Pio} has conserved his virginity up to the present and that he has never sinned, even venially, against this angelic virtue.

    On New Year's Day in 1903, Francesco was meditating on his vocation, wondering how he would ever be able to bid farewell to the world and devote himself entirely to God in the cloister, when he was favored with and "intellectual vision" (that is, a vision perceived other than through the physical senses). His physical senses were, as he put it, "suddenly suspended," and he was made "to gaze with the eye of his intellect quite different from those seen with bodily eyes." His vivid description bears, careful reading. In it he speaks of himself in the third person.

    'At his side he beheld a majestic man of rare beauty, resplendit as the the sun. This man took him by the hand and said, "Come with me, for you must fight a doughty warrior.' He then led me to a vast field where there was a great multitude. The multitude was divided into two groups. On the one side he saw men of the most beautiful countenance, clad in snow- white garments. On the other ... he saw men of hideous aspect, dressed in black raiment like so many dark shadows.....'

    One's first impression is that Francesco must have fallen asleep over a copy of John Bunyan's "Pilgram's Progress at the point at which at which the Christian fights and subdues the fearsome giant Apollyon, but it was highly unlikely that a good Roman Catholic boy would have been caught with a book by Bunyan, who almost certainly would have been considered a heretic.

     On January 3, 1903, Francesco had just received the Eucharist and was engaged "in intimate conversation with the Lord" when he was favored with another purely intellectual vision. His soul was " suddenly flooded with supernatural light, by means of which he understood in an instant that his entry into religion in the service of the heavenly monarch was to be nothing other than a prolonged combat with that mysterious man of hell with whom he had found himself in the preceding vision. Then he understood - and this was sufficient to sustain him - that although the demons would be present at his battles to ridicule his failures, there was nothing to fear his victories over Satan. He also understood that the heavenly guide was none other than Jesus Christ, who would sustain him in his battles and "reward him in paradise for the victorious he would win, so long as he trusted in Him alone and fought gallantly."

    Two days later, the evening before he was to depart from Pietrelcina for Morcone, Francesco felt a lump in his throat. At the approaching separation from his mother and brother and sisters, he felt his "very bones crushed." The psychic pain was so great that he very nearly collapsed. But now he was favored with a third vision in five days. "The Lord came to comfort him," he wrote about himself,as he described how he beheld in all their majesty Jesus and His blessed Mother. They encouraged him and assured him if their love. Jesus, at length, placed a hand on his head. This was sufficient to rend him strong in the higher part of his soul, so that he shed not a single tear at his painful parting, although at the moment he was suffering [inwardly] agonies in soul and body.

George H. Kubeck

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THIS MOST UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE" # 4 OF 12

THIS MOST UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE" # 4 OF 12

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    This is the fourth in a series excerpts from the book by George Neumayr titled, "The Political Pope."

Chapter Two: Who Am I To Judge 13-17

    In one of last speeches before leaving office in 2013, Pope Benedict XVI dissected the destructive liberalism that spread with the Church after the council of Vatican II. The secularism of Western culture had seeped into the Church, he lamented.

    "There was the council of the Fathers - the true council - but there was also the council of the media. It was almost a council in and of itself, and the world perceived the council through them, through the media. So the council that immediately, effectively, got through to the people was that of lhe media, not of the Fathers." said Pope Benedict XVI..... The absorption of modern liberalism into Catholicism had produced, he said, "so many problems, so much misery, in reality: seminaries closed, convents closed, the liturgy was trivialized....

    That he (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) selected Francis as his papal name was the first act to charm liberals, as they opportunistically portray St. Francis of Assisi as the patron saint of socialism, pacifism, and environmentalism. Instead of challenging this liberal caricature, Bergoglio reinforced. He told reporters that he adopted Francis as his name because Francis of Assisi was "a man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation." In truth, St. Francis of Assisi was a rigorously orthodox medieval churchman who would have regarded the liberalism of this pope with horror.

    Pope Francis explained that the inspiration to name himself Francis came to him when Cardinal Claudio Hummes, archbishop emeritus of Sao Paulo, Brazil, whispered in his ear after the election, "Don't forget the poor." His mention of Hummes was music to the ears of the media. Hummes has long been known to reporters as a critic of the free market with friendly ties to socialist organization in Brazil. (He's known for saying, "didn't know" if Jesus Christ would have disapproved of gay marriage.)

    Less than a year before Bergoglio became pope, in a foreshadowing of the liberal direction  of his pontificate, he ran into John Quinn, the ultra-progressive former archbishop of San Francisco, at a coffee shop in Rome. Quinn is the author of "The Reform of the Papacy" a book that explicitly rejects traditional teaching on the papacy, calls for Protestant style "collegiality" and urges the Church to adopt the politics and morals of the Western world. "I've read your book and I'm hoping what it proposes will be implemented,"  Bergoglio told a pleased Quinn. In retrospect, Pope Francis has largely implemented it and the left-wing American churchmen that Quinn represents - the so-called seamless garment bishops - have enjoyed a return to power. ...

    The former cardinal of of Los Angeles and Cesar Chavez acolyte Roger Mahoney tweeted to his followers,  "So long papal ermine and fancy lace!" and gushed about the left-wing political orientation of the new pope. Ernesto Cardenal, the Marxist activist whom Pope John Paul II rebuked, was excited by the emergence of Pope Francis. "We are seeing a true revolution in the Vatican," he wrote.

    The openly heretical German theologian Hans Kung said he "was overwhelmed by joy" at the news of Bergoglio's election.... Kung predicted that Francis would deviate from the "line of the two pope from Poland and Germany." ... Pope Francis and Kung have been exchanging friendly letters and that Francis has signaled and openness to hearing King;s criticism of papal infallibility....

    The notorious heterodox German theologian Cardinal Walter Kasper was also energized by the news of Bergoglio's election.... After Kasper urged his fellow bishops to open up Communion to adulterers, Pope Francis praised his "profound theology." The Catholic left has taken to calling Kasper the "pope's theologian." ...

George H. Kubeck

THIS MOST UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE" # 1

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PREFACE:

    This is the first in a series of direct excerpts from the book by George Neumayr titled "The Political Pope" - How Pope Francis is delighting the Liberal Left and Abandoning Conservatives, Center Street, New York, Nashville, 2017.

Chapter One - The Pope They Have Been Waiting For 1-4

"You must straighten out your position with the Church," Pope John Paul II shouted at a cowering Ernesto Cardenal, a Catholic priest turned Marxist activist. In violation of his religious vows, Cardenal had joined the communist Sandinista Government in Nicaragua, and Pope John Paul II was scolding him before the cameras of the entire world... So strong were Pope John Paul II's anti-communist credentials and so effective was his anti-Soviet advocacy that Kremlin leaders, according to historians, hired a Turkish gunman to assassinate him. That attempt failed, and Pope John Paul II continued to denounce the Soviets until their empire crumbled in 1991.

Pope Joseph Ratzinger also opposed communism fiercely. After serving as the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Ratzinger succeeded John Paul II in 2005 and took as his papal name Benedict XVI. In hid role as doctrinal guardian of the Church, Ratzinger repeatedly warned the faithful to reject "liberation theology," a Marxist-inspired ideology disguised as a concern for the poor and the Soviet Union's KGB spies had helped smuggle into Latin America's Catholic Church in the 1950s.

"The movement was born in the KGB. and it had a KGB-invented name: liberation theology," according to Ion Mihai Pacepa, who served as a spymaster for Romania's secret police in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Soviets had long eyed the Catholic Church for infiltration. In the 1950s, Bella Dodd, the former head of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party of America, testified before the U.S. Congress that communists occupied some of the "highest places" in the Catholic Church. "We put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within," she said. "The idea was for these men to be ordained, and then climb the ladder of influence and authority as monsignors and bishops." As an active party member, Dodd said that she knew of "four cardinals within the Vatican who were working for us... {Update: Bella Dodd converted to Catholicism and had a possible influence on Blessed Fulton Sheen.}

"In the 1950s and 1960s, most Latin American were poor, religious peasants who had accepted the status quo, and {Soviet Premier Nikita} Khrushchev was confidant they could be converted to communism through the judicious manipulation of religion," he said....

Against this historical backdrop, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI viewed the spread of liberation theology in Latin America with alarm.... Pope Benedict XVI called liberation theology a singular heresy. He argued that it deceives the faithful by concealing "Marxist dialectics" within seemingly harmless advocacy for the lower classes.... and disputed the claim of many churchmen that Christianity could purify the Marxist elements of socialist thought.

How shockingly different statements from the Holy See sound today under Pope Francis. The first Latin American pope in Church history, Jorge Mario Bergoglio has generated headlines not for scolding Marxists but for supporting them, not for rebuking liberation theologians but for honoring them. ... Now media outlets eagerly run stories about Pope Francis sympathy for it. "Liberation Theology Rehabilitation Continues at Vatican," ran a characteristic headline on a story from Associated Press.

In one of first major interviews, Pope Francis said that liberation theologians have a "high concept of humanity." A few months after he became pope on March 13, 2013, Francis welcomed the founding father of liberation theology, the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutierrez as an honored guest.

Gutierrez had disappeared from high ecclesiastical circles under Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI after making a Marxist appeal for " effective participation in the struggle which the exploited classes have undertaken against their oppressors." George H. Kubeck

                                                                                                                             

THIS HAPPY BOOK REPORT ON PADRE PIO # 7 OF 25

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    From the book, "Padre Pio: The True Stoy (Revised and Expanded) by C. Bernard Ruffin"), Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Indiana, 46750

    CHAPTER 2: EL BELLO FRANCESCO - 33-36

    "The miracle of St. Pellegrino was not the first time that Franceco Forgione saw the hand of God break into the physical world. As a grown man, he told his friend Padre Agostino that from childhood he had seen and spoken to Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and his guardian angel, and that it never occurred to him that this was something unusual. "Don't you see the Madonna?" he asked his friend. When Agostino denied this, Francesco shrugged his shoulder and said, " Surely, you're saying that out of humility."  In letters, he sometimes referred to his guardian angel as "the companion of my infancy." ...

    There is a story related after Padre Pio's death by Margherita De Cianni, a close childhood friend. Francesco was with his father, who was attempting to dig a well at Piana Romana. After the elder Forgione had dug forty feet without finding water, little Francesco announced, "You wont find any water down there." When Grazio asked him how he knew, the child said bluntly, "Jesus told me, if you want to find water, you must dig over there." Here the boy pointed to a precise spot in another part of the field." "All right," said Tata. "I'll did where you can tell me, but if there is no water there, I'll throw you into the hole!"  Grazio dug three feet, ... seven; and then a copious spring of water burst forth...

    As far as we know,it was in his tenth year that Francesco had his first experience with death. On August 22, 1896, he lost his grandfather, Fortunato De Nunzio, who died in Pietrelcina at he age of seventy five. We know nothing of Fanci's relationship with his grandfather or whether the boy was present at the old man's deathbed. But what we do know, from what of his school's essays, that a few months earlier young Francesco actually saw a man die....

    Shortly after Franci experienced another separation, of a different sort. This was prompted, in part, by Franci's stated desire to be a monk. In later years Padre Pio insisted the "I always wanted to be a friar." Gra and Beppa were first aware of this when he told them, after hearing a particular inspiring sermon, that he wanted to be a priest. It was when the boy was ten that he decided that he wanted to be part of the Capuchin Order.

    It was about that time that twenty-six-year-old Fra Camillo of Saint'Elia a pianisi was      appointed cercatore di campagna of the friari at Morcone, about thirteen miles from Pietrelcina. The job of the cercatore was to go through the countryside soliciting provisions. He carried with him a large sack of donations of wheat, grain, flour, eggs, and similar goods, as well as a coffer for cash donations. Fra Cami' was a merry little man who was a favorite with the children, to whom he handed out pictures, medals, chestnuts, and walnuts. Francesco was attracted to this happy and genial friar, and was especially fascinated  by his huge black beard.When Fra Cami' told him that all Capuchins wore beards, Francesco was determined to become a Capuchin, because he wanted one day to have a beard like Fra Cami'.

    When he discussed his desire to become a Capuchin with his parents, they told him that they would prefer that he become a parish priest, promising to finance his studies to that end. "No, no." insisted the boy. "I want to become a friar with a beard." "With a beard?" his mother laughed. "Why, you're still a little kid. You don't know anything about having a beard or not having a beard." ...

    There was a problem, however. Franci, if he wanted to be a priest, needed further education beyond the three years of public schooling that was coming to an end.... So, after further, conversation with Franceso that convinced Grazio that the boy was serious, he decided to go to America to e3arn money sufficient to pay for his son's education. ...

George H. Kubeck

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    From the book, "Padre Pio: The True Story (Revised and Expanded) by C. Bernard Ruffin"). Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Indiana, 46750. These are direct excerpts.

 

    "By the late nineteenth century, huge numbers of southern Italian men were crossing the Atlantic to work in North or South America, as there were no jobs to be found in their region, save as farm laborers. It is said that at one time thirty percent of the males in Pietrelcina were working abroad....

 

    (His teacher) Don Angelo Caccaavo brooked no nonsense. Whenever a student got a lesson wrong, he had to take it home and copy it several times by the next morning. Unruly children were made up to hold out their hands to receive the wack of a short ruler on the open palm. If that did not work, Caccavo did not hesitate to crack the recalcitrant child on the head or put him "in jail," that is, make him kneel in front of the class, facing the blackboard. But the boys and girls learned, so parents never objected to Don Angelo's methods. ...

 

    Francesco grew into a handsome teenager, with fair, rosy skin and auburn hair, and a winning smile. He steadfastly ignored the flirtations of his female classmates, lowering his eyes to the floor when they spoke to him. He was also very fond of reading. In later years, however, he regretted his choice of books. To a spiritual daughter, he wrote, "I never felt the least attraction for the type of reading that might sully moral innocence and purity, for I held quite naturally in greatest abhorrence even the slightest obscenity. In my readings, which were not improper but were invariably worldly, I sought merely scientific satisfaction and the pastime of honest mental recreation." Yet, he insisted such reading never helped him "acquire a single virtue"and, on the contrary, cause his love of God to diminish.

 

    Already he was beginning to adopt some of the ascetical practices for which he was later famous. While one of his school compositions reveal that he still liked to sleep late on the days when he did not have to go to school, he already practiced "mortification" in the matter of eating....

 

    By October 1901, Francesco could write to his father in Pennsylvania:"Now I am under the guidance of a new teacher. I see that I am progressing day by day, for which I am happy as Mama." This is the first of his letters that have been preserved. Rejoicing in his father's health, he says: "We too are well, thanks be to the Lord, and I, in a special way, send continual prayers to our gracious Virgin, in order that she may protect you from every evil and restore you to our love, safe and sound.....

 

    As Francesco neared completion of the requirements for entrance int the Capuchin Order, he very nearly got cold feet. The decision to abandon home and family for the life of ascetic rigor and continued prayer was not an easy one for the sensitive boy. Later in his life, Padre Pio said that at that time he had drunk "great droughts of the world's vanity" and found it hard to renounce the world. He was referring not to money, liquor, sex, or anything else that would automatically come to the mind of the worldly person, but simply to the legitimate joys of life; and he was saddened at the prospect of having to forgo them in the harsh austerity of the friary. ...

 

    Francesco was about ready to enter the Capuchin novitiate in the fall of  1902 when his vocational plans were very nearly derailed. Pannullo received an anonymous letter accusing Francesco of halving sexual relationship with the daughter of the stationmaster. The archpriest called his staff together and they decided to suspend Francesco from his duties as altar boy. Francesco had no idea what was going on, and decided that suspension from duties at one's parish must have been customary before entrance to the seminary. It is hard to believe that Pannullo could have taken the charges seriously. He conducted a thorough investigation, and, after a short time, was able to trace the letter to a schoolmate of Francesco who admitted his calumny.... Asked whether he ever thought of revenge after learning the full story, Padre Pio told his friend Padre Agostino, "On the contrary, I prayed for them and I am still praying for them." Yet, he conceded, "At times I did mention to God, "My Lord, if it is necessary to give them a whipping or two to convert them, please do as long as their souls are saved in the end." 

George H. Kubeck

THIS MOST UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE" # 3 OF 12

THIS MOST UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"  # 3 OF 12

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    The third in a series of direct excerpts from the book by George Neumayr titled "The Political Pope."

HIS COMMUNIST MENTOR - 8-11

    "Pope Francis grew up in socialist Argentina, an experience that left a deep impression on his thinking. He told Latin American journalists Javier Camara and Sebastian Pfaffen that as a young man he "read books of the Communist Party that my boss in the laboratory gave me" and that "there was a period where I would wait anxiously for the Newspaper La Vanguardia, which was not allowed to be sold with the other newspapers and was brought to us by the socialist militants."

    The "boss" to whom Pope Francis referred is Esther Ballestrino de Careaga. He described her as a "Paraguan woman" and a "fervent communist." He considers her one of the most important mentors."

"I owe a huge amount to that great woman," he has said, saying that she taught me so much about politics." (He worked for her as an assistant at Hickethier-Bachmann Laboratory in Buenos Aires.)

    "She often read Communist Party texts to me and gave them to me to read. So I also got to know that very materialistic conception. I remember that she also gave me the statement from the American Communists in defense of the Rosenbergs, who had been sentenced to death," he has said. Learning about communism, he said, "through a courageous and honest person was helpful. I realized a few things, an aspect of the social, which I then found in the social doctrine of the Church." After entering the priesthood, he took pride in helping her hide the family's Marxist literature from the authorities who were investigating her. According to the author James Carroll, Bergoglio smuggled her communist books, including Marx's DAS KAPITAL, into a "Jesuit library."...

    These biographical details throw light on the pope's ideological instincts.... "I must say that communists have stolen our flag. The flag of the poor Christian," he said in 2014. Such a comment would have startled his predecessors. They did not see communism as a benign exaggeration. They saw it as a grave threat to God-given freedoms, as it proposes that governments eliminate large swaths of individual freedom, private property, and business in order to produce the "EQUALITY" of a society without economic classes.

    In the early twentieth century, as Marx's socialism spread across the world, Pope Pius X1 declared the theory anathema. "No one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist," he said. To hear Pope Francis speak today, one might conclude the reverse: that no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and an opponent of socialism.

"Inequality is the root of all evil," Pope Francis wrote on his Twitter account in 2014. One can imagine Karl Marx blurting that out, but none of Francis's predecessors would have made such an outrageous claim. According to traditional Catholic traditional, the root of all evil ca e not from inequality but from Satan's refusal to accept inequality. Out of envy of God's superiority. Satan rebelled. He could not bear his lesser status. ...

Under Francis, the papacy has become a collage of such politicized images: friendly papal meetings with communist thugs, like the Castro brothers, a papal Mass conducted under the shadow of mass murderer Che Guevara's mural in Havana, papal audiences with a steady stream of crude Marxist theoreticians and anti-capitalist celebrities such as Leonardo DiCapria, "selfies" while holding up an anti-fracking T-shirt, a pro-amnesty Mass said on the border between Mexico and America, a succession of sermons, speeches and writings that rip into capitalism and tout greater government control over private property and business...

Pope Francis, as liberals once said of Brarack Obama, is the "one they have been waiting for." The world is witnessing nothing less than a liberal revolution in the Catholic Church - a revolution that is emboldening the Church's enemies and alienating her friends.... George H. Kubeck