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

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

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM -  TUES.MAR. 3/18

    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