# 13 of 40 - THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"!

# 13 OF 40 THIS UNHAPPY BOOK REPORT ON "THE POLITICAL POPE"

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - MARCH 13, 2019

George Neumayr, "The Political Pope"Center Street, New York, 1917

Chapter 4 - The Liberal Jesuit from Latin America - p. 68-72

(The next 3 book reports are sadly most shocking, informative and destructive to the Vatican and U..S. Catholic Church. This will also be letter # 9 to Pope Francis and Bishop Kevin Vann.)

"As Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergoglio was often criticized for his Jesuitical opaqueness at the service of modernist incrementalism. Argentinian journalist Elizabetta Pique has reported that Vatican officials under Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI saw Bergoglio as "not being orthodox enough" and didn't trust his recommendations for bishops....

"As archbishop, Bergoglio surrounded himself with liberal advisers, one of whom was Victor Manuel Fernandez, a theology professor at the Catholic University in Buenos Aires. Fernandez was famous for his flakiness, writing such books as "Heal Me with Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing." A defender of situation ethics, Fernandez criticized Pope John Paul II for his opposition to relativism's denial of intrinsically evil acts.... Fernandez's friendship with Pope Francis has contributed to the chaos at the Vatican. Fernandez made news by attacking the head of the congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Muller....

A Lax Archbishop

"Pro-family activists complained that Bergoglio wouldn't lift a finger to help them protest the cultural relativism of the Argentine legislature. In fact, he would discourage them from holding protests. "Bergoglio shock[ed] Rome on the pastoral level by his intolerance of the obsessive strictures of some clergy on the subject of sexual ethics." she reported....

"Bergoglio preferred to play the prototypical "cool" priest of the post-Vatican II era and the liberal Jesuit order. He didn't like formal titles and musty traditions (he once referred to them as a "dictatorship of the church", would try to impress the worldly with stories about his past as a "bouncer," and would chuckle at the mischief of others. According to his sister, Bergoglio "taught swear words" to her son, which resulted in the boy swearing during one of his sermons at an "important mass." After Mass, Jorge came to us and could not stop laughing," she said.

"Above all, he sought to cultivate an image of humility. To this day, priests chuckle at the lengths to which he would go to foster that image.... "Father Jorge," recalled Argentine Catholics, was also happy to be seen presiding over "tango" and Pinocchio masses. He had a decidedly casual approach to Church discipline.... "He explicity permitted a homosexual couple to adopt a child. He kept in touch with priests who were expelled from the official church because they gotten married," said the liberation theologian Leonard Boff."

"Advocates for abused children with the Church saw Bergoglio as similar to other bishops in his laxity and negligence. BishopAccountability.org has done a study of his record as archbishop of Buenos Aires and found it to be dismal.... In his many homilies and statements (archived on Buenos Aires archdiocesan website) he attacked government corruption, wealth inequities, and human sex trafficking, but he said nothing about sexual violence by priests....

"Begoglio"s implication, that he handled no abusive priests, is implausible. Buenos Aires is Argentive's largest diocese, and Bergoglio was one of its top executives from 1992 to 2013 - a period when tens of thousands of victims worldwide reported their abuse to the Church. Based on data disclosed in dioceses in the U.S. and Europe, we estimate conservatively that from 1950 to 2013, more than 100 Buenos Aires archdiocesan priests offended against children and that dozens of them were known to archdiocesan supervisors, including Bergoglio.

"Since assuming the papacy, Bergoglio has made numerous statements about sexual abuse, but he continues to show a blind spot on the issue, as Vatican correspondent John Allen has reported.

    "Pope Francis' response to the sexual abuse mess in the Church has come under mounting fire. Though the merits of any particular item in the bill of indictment may be debated, the over-all effect has been to seed doubt as to whether the fight against child abuse is truly a priority for pontiff."...G. Kubeck