'Popular Movements': Francis' Love Affair Is Over
On Friday 20 September, the 'popular movements' will hold a symposium in the Vatican 'to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their first meeting with Francis'.
Strangely, Francis will not be present. Only a message from Cardinal Czerny will be read. The symposium does not even appear in the list of events published by the Vatican press office.
This downgrading is surprising when compared with Francis' previous enthusiasm for these meetings.
The first took place exactly ten years ago in Rome, in October 2014. The second was in Bolivia in July 2015. The third, again in Rome, in November 2016.
In all three, Francis gave endless speeches, up to thirty pages each, proclaiming a kind of political manifesto.
The main organiser was and is Juan Grabois, 41, the son of a Peronist apparatchik (pictured). Since 2005 he has been close to Francis, who even appointed him as an adviser to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
But Francis was infuriated when, in January 2018, on the eve of his trip to neighbouring Chile, Grabois launched a fierce verbal attack on Argentine President Mauricio Macri.
In reporting the insults, the Argentine media truthfully said in chorus that Grabois was a "great friend" of Bergoglio and that Bergoglio thought as he did.
On top of that, Grabois left with five hundred militants for Chile to attend in the front row a Eucharist presided over by Francis.
At this point, the Argentinean bishops felt obliged to publish a harsh condemnation of those who would usurp their friendship with Bergoglio.
Once aroused, Bergoglio's anger will not be easily calmed. At the 2020 meeting of the 'popular movements', he only appeared with a short open letter.
The letter was dated and published on 12 April, Easter Sunday, with no reference to the risen Jesus and no Easter greetings. Instead, Francis invoked a 'universal basic wage' and congratulated those imaginary women 'who multiply the food in the popular canteens by cooking a delicious stew for hundreds of children with two onions and a packet of rice'.
A few months later, in a handwritten letter dated 1 December 2020 to some of his former Argentinean students, Francis could no longer keep it to himself.
He wrote: "Dr Grabois has been a member of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development for years. Regarding what he says (that he is my friend, that he is in contact with me, etc.), I ask you for a favour that is important to me. I need a copy of the statements in which he says these things. It would be very useful for me to have them".
He insisted that in general in Argentina "they do not know what I say day after day".
"You know what they say I say, and that's thanks to the media, where the phenomenon of the reported plays a big role, for example, Tizio told me that Caio said this... and so with this method of communication, where everyone adds or subtracts something, you get unlikely results, like the story of Little Red Riding Hood, which ends up at the table with Little Riding Hood and his grandmother, eating a delicious stew cooked with the wolf's meat. So it is with the 'reported'."
However, Francis, with the excessive number of interviews that contain heretical, sybilistic, nonsensical and contradictory statements, contributes greatly to the fact that any number of positions are attributed to him. And this is not the fault of Grabois.
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