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Gloria.TV News on the 30th of June 2014 Unknown Rome: Pope Francis has given another interview - this time to the Roman paper Il Messaggero - in which he mostly speaks about social problems. But he …More
Gloria.TV News on the 30th of June 2014
Unknown Rome: Pope Francis has given another interview - this time to the Roman paper Il Messaggero - in which he mostly speaks about social problems. But he also reveals personal matters. Quote: “Do you know that I do not know Rome?” Francis gives examples: “Imagine that I saw the Sistine Chapel for the first time when I participated in the conclave that elected Benedict XVI?” Or: “I have never been in the Vatican Museums.”
Same Words, Different Meaning: In the same interview Pope Francis speaks about communism. Quote: “The communists have stolen our banner.” He claims that poverty and the poor are at the centre of the Gospel and adds: “The communists say that this is all communist. Yes, why not, twenty centuries later.” And: “When they speak like this one could say to them: but you, you are Christians.” Francis does not clarify that communism understood poverty in a way that has nothing to do with the Gospel. Further: More than 100 million people …More
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Only "invincible ignorance" can excuse Pope Francis from severe moral condemnation. In his communist phase, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty published in 1947 his book Humanisme et Terreur. Merleau-Ponty took acception to the accusation that Stalin (certainly a Communist, Mr. Pope Francis) is to be condemned with Hitler because both used for their goal smassive repression, death, …More
Only "invincible ignorance" can excuse Pope Francis from severe moral condemnation. In his communist phase, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty published in 1947 his book Humanisme et Terreur. Merleau-Ponty took acception to the accusation that Stalin (certainly a Communist, Mr. Pope Francis) is to be condemned with Hitler because both used for their goal smassive repression, death, murder and, yes, terror. I will quote Merleau-Ponty in the original French. Objecting to the comparison of Communism with Nazism, the future "Christian" (despite his atheism if one follows Pope Francis) wrote:

"... La comparison est de mouvaise foi. Car le fascisme est justement comme un mimique du bolchevisme [communisme]. ... Car si le prolétariat [= classe des pauvres] est cette 'classe universelle' [= Francis' 'the poor as centre of the Gospel'] que nous avons décrite d'après Marx, alors les intérêts de cette classe portent dans l'histoire les valeurs humaines ... . La violence fasciste, au contraire, n'est pas celle d'une classe universelle, c'est celle d'une 'race' ou d'une nation tard venue [or of RICH capitalists], elle ne suit pas le cours des choses, elle le remonte" (p. 139).

Whereas Merleau-Ponti condemns the massive terror of Hitler and his fascism, he, nevertheless, defends and commends the COMMUNIST Stalin and his massive terror because terror in the name of the "classe universelle" is terror in the name of humanity in toto. It is the death used for emancipation. If Communists can be called "Christians" as Francis proclaims, then by logical deduction Christians may act like Communists and murder and terrorize to the depths of Stalin's gulags, eliminating those who oppress the poor and downtrodden (which constitute a Christian parellel to the "classe universelle"). I am aghast. The logic of Pope Francis' equation of Communists with Christians entails, willy/nilly, a justification of terror in the name of emancipation (Marxist term) or salvation (Christian term). David Goldman, a Jewish intellectual, was right. The Pope is not interest so much in saving souls for eternity than in saving the world here and now, a part of the human world that is a "classe universelle", viz., the "poor as the centre of the Gospels". In the end, we all die. It was the custom in medieval Europe to remove a dead king from his throne and put him on the ground, symbolizing that death makes us all equal -- death and sin, not economic poverty of being downtrodden. This Pope is singularly without genuine religiosity. I hate to make that conclusion, but he, not I, equated Communists with Christians.

Pape Francis, je t'accuse!
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Thanks for the news, Doina. How nice see you again. Blessings.
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