Pope Francis and Milei were the "pygmy couple" who attended the canonisation on 20th February of Sister María Antonia de San José de Paz y Figueroa (+1799), the first Argentinean saint, writes Bernardino Montejano from Buenos Aires on 12th February.
Sister Maria Antonia was known as "Mama Antula". She was a true saint, although she was canonised by Francis.
After the canonisation, Francis said to Javier Milei: "Thank you for coming, you who are half Jewish".
Montejano comments: "This is proof of the humour with which Francis, the Servant of the Servants of God, takes something as terrible as apostasy."
Francis praised Mama Antula's commitment to the weak and poor, but Montejano remains unconvinced: "This Francis is the same person who, when he was Jorge Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, treated so many weak people like rubbish."
He cites the example of Monsignor Antonio González Silvano, a disciple of Father Julio Meinvielle and longtime parish priest of San Isidro Labrador, whose …More