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Pope Francis SecularMotion Jan 2014 #1
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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
1. Pope Francis
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 08:32 PM
Jan 2014
With the mainstream media hailing the new pope as a cuddly, squeaky-clean messiah for the shamed and shit-stained Catholic Church, it looks like it’s up to HUSTLER—and a few diligent historians—to do the journalistic dirty work. Formerly known as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio from Argentina, the new human hotline to heaven may have dropped his old moniker, but he still has some serious historical baggage. The closer you look, the more this papal savior resembles Pontius Pilate.

During his country’s military dictatorship and its “Dirty War” of the 1970s, when scores of resisters were killed or disappeared, Bergoglio honed his reputation as a guy who would gladly bend over for any junta that came along. After all, complying with dictatorships and fascism is a deep-seated tradition in the Catholic Church.

As local head of the Jesuit order at the time, Bergoglio stripped two priests— Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics—of their official functions, withdrawing the protections provided by the church. The priests were involved in helping the poor, an activity that smelled to the junta’s jackboots a lot like Peron ism. Anything Juan Perón and his wife Eva fought for—like democracy, trade unions and care for the underprivileged—was a scourge to the new regime. How dare Jesuit priests follow their vow of charity when they should be rimjobbing the new Butchers of Buenos Aires?

No sooner had Bergoglio made the priests unfair game than they were grabbed by paramilitary thugs and delivered to the torture chambers of the notorious detention camp Escuela Mecánica de la Armada, or ESMA. Later, when people started asking questions, the priests turned up drugged and naked in a field outside Buenos Aires. Yorio later testified that “Bergoglio never warned us. It was him who provided our names to the military.” The future pontiff, they charged, even lied to the priests’ families about their fate.

http://larryflynt.com/assholeofthemonth/pope-francis/

struggle4progress

(118,270 posts)
5. 1967 just called:
Tue Jan 28, 2014, 08:40 PM
Jan 2014

Voice 1 (background): Make it short. I gotta get the time machine back to the lab before they miss it, and I really want to catch that Airplane concert last year

Voice 2 (loudly):The Pope? Are you furkin kiddin me? The furkin Pope?

Voice 1 (background): Shh! Keep it down, man. You want somebody call the cops?

I didn't catch it all. They sounded pretty upset




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