Francis, “knows nothing — not morals, not theology, not history. Nothing. Only power interests him.”

My principal purpose in visiting Buenos Aires is to learn about its not-so-favorite son, Jorge Bergoglio, who still hasn’t visited Argentina since becoming Pope Francis. During my first few days here, I asked every Catholic I met to explain that anomaly. I got some blunt and brutal answers.

“We all know he is a son of a bitch,” said a former prosecutor to me. “We are ashamed of him. He represents our worst qualities.”

His friend chipped in that Catholics consider Francis “to be a fake, a make-believe pope,” not to mention, he added, an uncultured, ill-mannered flake.

The former prosecutor oozed contempt for Francis: “He knows nothing — not morals, not theology, not history. Nothing. Only power interests him.”

The description of Pope Francis as a power-mad ideologue is very widespread, I am finding. I spoke at length with Antonio Caponnetto, who is the Argentine author of several books on Pope Francis. “At seminary, his classmates called him ‘Machiavelli,’ ” he noted.

Caponnetto gives two reasons for why the pope has avoided his home country: one, at least half the country hates him, and two, Francis dislikes the supposedly “conservative,” pro-capitalist Macri regime. The latter reason is absurd: Macri is hardly conservative, as Argentine conservatives are the first to say.

On Wednesday morning, I visited with Santiago Estrada, Argentina’s former ambassador to the Holy See. He has been close to Bergoglio for decades, but he allowed that Bergoglio “hates businessmen.” He dislikes Macri, he said, not because Macri is a pillar of conservatism but because Macri is simply not as anti-business “as the pope.” Estrada was loath to criticize his friend, but he conceded that the pope’s promotion of molesting bishops has been “inexplicable.”

Why Pope Francis Hasn’t Visited Argentina, The American Spectator, 22 August 2019 (Bold is CMJ's for emphasis.)

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• Francis the Destroyer?
• All’s not well in Modernist Rome
• ‘Disorderly, confused, omnipotent, and charismatic’ Francis compares similarly to the vindictive abuser, Marcial Maciel

Francis sends his old friend, Leonardo Boff, a photo of the two in San Miguel, Argentina from 1972

(click images to enlarge)

Those are some nice looking cassocks the duo are wearing.

source: twitter @LeonardoBoff, 5 August 2019

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• Where Francis gets his ideas

• Boff interviewed on the telephone by BBC Mundo

• Francis takes his ‘Jubilee Year of Mercy’ to its logical conclusion

• Where did Francis get his name?

• Francis sends birthday greetings to Leonardo Boff

Happy Anniversary!

Two days ago was the 27th anniversary of the ‘consecration’ of this destroyer of the Faith, who has left destruction and chaos in his wake.

How Francis spent his 80th birthday in 2016

Celebrating with his 

Talmudic & Kabbalist friends!

(click images to enlarge)

 The international delegation from Menora and the birthday boy at Casa Santa Marta.

Rabbi Isaac Sacca is the Senior Rabbi of the Sephardic Jews in Argentina & the founder and president of Menora, Organización Judía Mundial para la Juventud (Menora, World Jewish Organization for Youth).  The purpose of Menora is to spread the Talmud and the Kabbalah among the Jewish youth of the world by educating them about their powers.  Sacca brought a group of his fellow Talmudic Jews who back his causes to the Vatican to meet with Francis as well as celebrate his 80th birthday with a kosher cake, of course! This post from Sacca’s website explains it:

Pope Francis received Rabbi Isaac Sacca and an international delegation from Menorah, with representatives from Argentina, the United States, England and Italy. 

For more than an hour, they discussed, among other things, about the idea of ​​Argentina exporting to the world its capacity for harmony and peace among different faiths. They also talked on education initiatives for tolerance and respect among peoples and different action plans to make the society noble, just and inclusive. 

Rabbi Sacca gave Pope Francis a replica of the Birkat Kohanim (Blessing of Priests) from the oldest Bible found. 

The colored note was the kosher cake that Rabbi Sacca and the delegation of Menora presented to the Pope for his birthday, which read: H.H. Pope Francis Happy Birthday. 

Pope Francis gave each guest a coin of the Jubilee. 

It has been another unforgettable encounter between Pope Francis and Rabbi Sacca, two religious who seek to leave a message of hope to the world, based on deep knowledge, infinite merciful faith, sincere respect and a proactive action for the common good.

Expected meeting between Pope Francis and the Chief Rabbi Isaac Sacca, Isaac Sacca.com, 16 December 2016

In 1979 Gabriel Barkay found two tiny silver scroll amulets with different versions of the Birkat Hakohanim dating back to the 7th century B.C. at the Ketef Hinnom archaeological site southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.  Above is a photograph of the scroll KH2 with transcription of its letters. 

A unidentified Orthodox Jew performing the Birkat Hakohanim.

The two old friends probably also discussed Halaka.

Francis must have been tickled pink to have received a replica of the Birkat Kohanim.

They had to celebrate the birthday one day early because it fell on the Jewish Sabbath.

Don’t worry it was kosher and from Francis’ favorite Jewish restaurant in Rome, Ba’Ghetto.

More on Rabbi Isaac Sacca:

• Francis adds more rabbinical books to his library

• Francis’ private guest last Friday was Senior Rabbi of the Sephardic Jews in Argentina, Rabbi Isaac Sacca

The sexual abuse of deaf children in Italy and Argentina dating back 30 years

To see the corroborating documents about the sexual abuse committed by the three presiders and laypeople on deaf children at the Provolo Institute of Verona as well as the shenanigans played by the Vatican:

• fanpage.it, The documents kept secret by the Vatican regarding the sexual abuse of deaf children at the Istituto Provolo

Das Schweigen der Hirten: Missbrauch in der Kirche (The Silence of the Shepherds: Abuse in the church)

(For English subtitles, turn on CC and select the English language.)

This is a 2018 documentary produced for ZDF by CASH Investigation.  It covers how presiders in the Novus Ordo church are reassigned to new countries after committing sexual crimes.  The first part discusses the important role the church in Africa plays in this evil.  The second part (see 28 minutes & 55 seconds) explains Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s responsibility in the matter.  Most of what is covered in the documentary but not all has been covered on this blog in previous posts.  The French version of the documentary can be see in our previous post, Francis is asked a question and answers with a lie.

When meeting with victims of Novus Ordo sexual abuse, Francis has empathy and compassion for them, and publicly he has a “zero-tolerance policy” but this is only a for show.  Behind closed doors he does everything in his power to protect the guilty parties. Lying about everything, especially to a person’s face is Francis’ modus operandi.  There are many reasons for this, for starters: 1) Jorge Bergoglio’s upbringing,  2) Francis’ obsession with all things Talmudic, and  3) his reliance on psychiatry.

Francis’ silence after years of the Novus Ordo remaining silent on the sex crimes committed by their presiders speaks volumes. It is not only a slap in the face of the victims but is also the behavior exhibited by a guilty party.  The fruits of Vatican II have deservedly come home to roost. We pray and hope that the entire world will see the modernist presiders for who and what they truly are.



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• the Diocese of Osorno (Chile) welcomes it's new bishop (accused of covering up sex abuse), Juan Barros Madrid!

• Francis demonstrates his cognitive dissonance by writing a preface to a book on child sex abuse committed by clergy

• Francis re-defrocks fellow Novus Ordo priest in the name of defending Orthodox Judaism

• Francis caps off his ‘Deforestation of Hope’ Tour with in-flight entertainment

• Francis makes a cell phone video about Chile while flying back to Rome — SATIRE —

• Francis is asked a question and answers with a lie

• Liar, Liar Cassock on Fire!

• Anna Matranga asks Francis about Abp. Viganò’s letter

the new ‘creative’ evangelization

grotesque human puppet of Jesus

Mocking Christ is a religious experience for this family!

Jorge Mario Bergoglio breaking the rules back in 2002

According to Juan Pablo Escobar Henao (aka Sebastián Marroquín), the son of Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, his mother arranged for his fiancé (María Ángeles Sarmiento) and he to marry in a Catholic ceremony outside a Catholic church even though church law in Argentina forbid it. The facilitator who mad it happen was none other than the bishop of Buenos Aires — Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

source: Pablo Escobar: My Father by Juan Pablo Escobar, ebook (2016), p. 349.

The archbishop of Medellin, Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, in 2014 said,

“In view of strange irregularities that have arisen due to the invalid celebration of weddings in hotels, banquet halls, social salons, farms, and other places rather than parish churches, I have considered it appropriate to remind you that such marriages would in and of themselves be NULL.”

This is also stated in a church circular on marriage the Catholic church in Colombia has published,

“THE PRIESTS CAN NOT CELEBRATE MARRIAGES IN HOTELS, RECEPTION HOUSES, SOCIAL HALLS OR FARMS AND THEN REGISTER THEM IN THEIR PARISHES. THEY WILL BE NULL MARRIAGES.”

Of course Jorge Mario Bergoglio has no problem bending and breaking rules as well as laws.  After all one of the greatest sins to him it to be too rigid.  Then you also have to consider the fact that he believes “the great majority of our sacramental marriages are null.”

Juan Pablo Escobar Henao explains...

sources for story:

• gloria.tv, "The favor of Card. Bergoglio to the widow of Escobar"

• Laicos Unidos en Cristo, En Argentina Bergoglio autorizó una boda fuera de la Iglesia al hijo del narco terrorista Escobar, que están prohibidas

strange favors of the peripheries

The mother and the bishop — Maria Victoria Henao and Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Marcantonio Colonna explains why he wrote ‘The Dictator Pope’

excerpts from Life Site News’ interview 

with Marcantonio Colonna

What did you find most interesting, surprising, or shocking in your research?

In fact my book is mainly based on a long series of articles which have already exposed many aspects of Francis's pontificate, but the world's media have preferred to take no notice of them. A personal contribution of mine has been to transmit to the rest of the world the estimate of Bergoglio that had long been held in Argentina. In researching Bergoglio’s past, one of the most significant pieces of evidence I came across was the report written by his religious superior [Father Peter Hans Kolvenbach] in 1991 when it was proposed to make Bergoglio a bishop. The Jesuit General wrote that Bergoglio was not suitable for such an appointment, that he was a man of devious character, lacking psychological balance, and had been a divisive figure as Provincial of the Jesuits in Argentina. The existence of this report has long been known, and I received the account of it from a priest who read the document himself at the time.

What’s your overall view of Pope Francis in light of what you discovered?

My view of Pope Francis is mainly formed from researching his Argentinian background. He emerges as a flawed character, who is capable of impressing people profoundly and forming warm friendships, but who, as one of his priest friends remarked, “manipulates people through the affections.” This characteristic has enabled him to establish a skillful ascendancy over his subordinates in Rome, as he had done previously in Buenos Aires. Bergoglio is also very much the product of the peculiar political culture of Argentina, formed by the populist dictator Juan Perón, of whom Bergoglio was a follower from his early years, and whom he very much resembles in his style of government.

Even some who have praised the book for its thorough research call it tendentious. How do you defend these claims?

My book can only be called tendentious in the sense that it makes a case; but it makes it on the basis of a vast array of facts, which are fairly presented. By contrast, the current public image of Pope Francis is a PR exercise which bears no relation to reality.

The book is well researched and heavily footnoted, but not where you speak of allegations that the Vatican made financial contributions to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Why did you include these allegations in the book?

This accusation was made to me unambiguously by a contact in the Vatican, whose identity I have to protect. However, the allegation is quite well known to journalists. With this and other scandals I mention, my desire was to encourage further investigation by researchers who are better qualified than I am to delve into financial matters.

For the full interview EXCLUSIVE: LifeSite interviews mysterious author of ‘The Dictator Pope’ (click here).

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Francis makes a new bishop!

On the Gente magazine cover, from 30 August 2012, from left to right are: Pablo Goycochea, Roberto Carlos Trinidad, and Fr. Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuerva.  The occasion was the baptism of the two children, who were born of a surrogate mother for Pablo and Roberto.  Fr. Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuerva is the pastor of the Church of St. Clare of Assisi in the Talar de Pacheco, Tigre and is famous for its fight against drugs in Argentina.  The baptism happened at the Basilica of the Most Holy Sacrament, in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 25 August 2012.  Roberto Carlos Trinidad, better known under the names, Florencia De La V or Florencia Trinidad, is an Argentinian TV star.  He is also a man who has undergone surgery in order to look like a woman.  The reason for the baptism was given by Fr. Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuerva as follows,  

“Florencia approached us with the explicit request of the Catholic Church to baptize their children under Canon Law. That there is that desire is reason enough to carry it out. I wish all parents (would) bring their children to baptism with this level of consciousness. I can see Florencia and Pablo really want to convey to Pablo and Isabella faith in Jesus.”

How are these two poor children ever going to be raised in the Catholic faith when they have two perverted pseudo-parents who are biological males that are carrying on as if they husband and wife?  It’s obvious that Fr. Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuerva doesn’t understand what sin is much less what the sins that cry to heaven for vengeance are!

Not only did the perverse couple and Fr. Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuerva make the cover of a magazine for the baptism, they also made national news on Argentinian television!





So did Cardinal Bergoglio reprimand Fr. Jorge Ignacio Garcia Cuerva for this act?  

Of course not!

A little over five years later...

He rewarded Fr. Cuerva with his own titular see!

source: Bollettino, Resignations and Appointments, 20.11.2017


Put on your faux* surprise face!

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!

*Readers of this blog will know that one of Francis’ favorite past-times is inversion of the natural and spiritual.

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Francis sends a video to Argentina’s Ezeiza Federal Penitentiary

“The inmates are paying a penalty, a penalty for an error committed. However, let’s not forget that for the penalty to be fruitful it must have a horizon of hope, otherwise it remains shut-in on itself and is only an instrument of torture; it’s not fruitful.”

Apparently, Francis’ regular phone calls to the prisoners weren’t enough so he made them a video and don’t forget that torture is a mortal sin in all its forms including serving time!

• full transcript of Francis’ video message to “students” students in Argentina’s Ezeiza Federal Penitentiary (Spanish original) & (English translation)

the new evangelization in Argentina

Why have a homily when one can sing 

about Jesus to the music from a song 
about carnal desire?

Padre Gabriel Ghione leading children and parishioners in singing his version of ‘Despacito’ originally by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee

Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro de San Francisco
in Córdoba, Argentina

Padre Gabriel Ghione singing with his adoring fans

Francis should make this 

idiot a bishop immediately!

blast from the past — Bergoglio interview of 2007

What I would have said at the Consistory
An interview with Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 

Archbishop of Buenos Aires conducted by Stefania Falasca

Interview with Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio by Sefania Falasca

«I must return», he repeats. Not that he doesn’t like the atmosphere of Rome. But he misses that of Buenos Aires. His diocese. He calls it «Esposa». Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, always makes lightning visits to Rome. But this time an attack of sciatica has forced him to prolong his stay in the Eternal City for some days of rest. And what is more, by an irony of circumstances, he had to miss the occasion for which he crossed the ocean, the meeting with the Pope and all the cardinals gathered in Consistory. 

His company is never far away. He tells us how the Aparecida Conference went, where he chaired the editorial committee for the concluding document. He confides that his speech at the Consistory would have been on that. And this is what he had to say about it in that light, but acute and incisive, way of talking that throws one off track and takes one by surprise. 

SEFANIA FALASCA:  Your Eminence, you would have spoken about Aparecida at the Consistory. What for you characterized the fifth General Conference of the Latin American bishops?

JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO: The Aparecida Conference was a moment of grace for the Latin American Church.

FALASCA: Yet there was no lack of argument about the closing document… 

BERGOGLIO: The concluding document, that was an act of the Magisterium of the Latin American Church, underwent no manipulation. Neither from us nor from the Holy See. There were some small re-touchings of style, of form, and some things that were removed on the one hand were put back in on the other. The substance, therefore, remained identical, it was absolutely not changed. The reason for that is because the atmosphere leading up to the editing of the document was an atmosphere of genuine and brotherly collaboration, of mutual respect, that characterized the work, work that moved from below upwards, not vice versa. To understand the atmosphere one has to look at what for me were the three key points, the three “pillars” of Aparecida. The first of which was precisely that: from below upwards. It’s perhaps the first time that one of our General Conferences didn’t start out from a pre-prepared basic text but from open dialogue, that had already begun earlier between the CELAM and the Episcopal Conferences, and that has since continued.

FALASCA: But wasn’t the orientation of the Conference already set out by the opening speech by Benedict XVI? 

BERGOGLIO: The Pope gave general indications on the problems of Latin America, and then left it open: up to you, up to you! That was very grand on the Pope’s part. The Conference began with statements from the twenty-three presidents of the various Episcopal Conferences and from that discussion opened on the topics in the different groups. The editing phases of the document were also open to the contributions of all. At the moment of gathering the “modes”, for the second and third editing, 2,240 arrived! Our stance was that of receiving everything that came from below, from the People of God, and to make not so much a synthesis, as a harmony.

FALASCA: An arduous task… 

BERGOGLIO: “Harmony”, I said, that’s the right word. In the Church harmony is the work of the Holy Spirit. One of the early Fathers of the Church wrote that the Holy Spirit «ipse harmonia est», He Himself is harmony. He alone is author at the same time of plurality and of unity. Only the Spirit can stir diversity, plurality, multiplicity and at the same time make unity. Because when it’s us who decide to create diversity we create schisms and when it’s us who decide to create unity we create uniformity, leveling. At Aparecida we collaborated in this work of the Holy Spirit. And the document, if one reads it well, one sees that it has circular, harmonic thinking. The harmony is perceived not as passive, but creative, that urges creativity because it is of the Spirit.

FALASCA: And what is the second key point? 

BERGOGLIO: It’s the first time that a Conference of Latin American bishops has gathered in a Marian shrine. And the place in itself already speaks all the meaning. Every morning we recited lauds, we celebrated mass together with the pilgrims, the believers. On Saturday or Sunday there were two thousand, five thousand. Celebrating the Eucharist together with the people is different from celebrating it amongst us bishops separately. That gave us a live sense of belonging to our people, of the Church that goes forward as People of God, of us bishops as its servants. The work of the Conference then went on in a hall below the sanctuary. And from there one continued to hear the prayers, the hymns of the faithful… In the final document there is a point that concerns popular piety. They are very fine pages. And I believe, indeed I am sure, that they were inspired precisely by that. After those contained in the Evangelii nuntiandi, they are the finest pages written on popular piety in a document of the Church. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the Aparecida document is the Evangelii nuntiandi of Latin America, it is like the Evangelii nuntiandi.

FALASCA: The Evangelii nuntiandi is an apostolic exhortation about the missionary spirit. 

BERGOGLIO: Exactly. There’s a close similarity also in that. And here I come to the third point. The Aparecida document isn’t sufficient to itself, it doesn’t close, it is not the last step, because the final opening is to the mission. The announcing and the testimony of the disciples. To remain faithful we need to go outside. Remaining faithful one goes out. That is what Aparecida says at bottom. That it is the heart of the mission.

FALASCA: Can you explain the image further? 

BERGOGLIO: Staying, remaining faithful implies an outgoing. Precisely if one remains in the Lord one goes out of oneself. Paradoxically precisely because one remains, precisely if one is faithful one changes. One does not remain faithful, like the traditionalists or the fundamentalists, to the letter. Fidelity is always a change, a blossoming, a growth. The Lord brings about a change in those who are faithful to Him. That is Catholic doctrine. Saint Vincent of Lerins makes the comparison between the biologic development of the person, between the person who grows, and the Tradition which, in handing on the depositum fidei from one age to another, grows and consolidates with the passage of time: «Ut annis scilicet consolidetur, dilatetur tempore, sublimetur aetate». 

FALASCA: Is this what you would have said at the Consistory? 

BERGOGLIO: Yes. I would have spoken about these three key points. 

FALASCA: Nothing else? 

BERGOGLIO: Nothing else… No, perhaps I would have mentioned two things of which there is need in this moment, there is more need: mercy, mercy and apostolic courage. 

FALASCA: What do they mean to you? 

BERGOGLIO: To me apostolic courage is disseminating. Disseminating the Word. Giving it to that man and to that woman for whom it was bestowed. Giving them the beauty of the Gospel, the amazement of the encounter with Jesus… and leaving it to the Holy Spirit to do the rest. It is the Lord, says the Gospel, who makes the seed spring and bear fruit. 

FALASCA: In short, it is the Holy Spirit who performs the mission. 

BERGOGLIO: The early theologians said: the soul is a kind of sailing boat, the Holy Spirit is the wind that blows in the sail, to send it on its way, the impulses and the force of the wind are the gifts of the Spirit. Without His drive, without His grace, we don’t go ahead. The Holy Spirit lets us enter the mystery of God and saves us from the danger of a gnostic Church and from the danger of a self-referential Church, leading us to the mission. 

FALASCA: That means also overthrowing all your functionalist solutions, your consolidated plans and pastoral systems … 

BERGOGLIO: I didn’t say that pastoral systems are useless. On the contrary. In itself everything that leads by the paths of God is good. I have told my priests: «Do everything you should, you know your duties as ministers, take your responsibilities and then leave the door open». Our sociologists of religion tell us that the influence of a parish has a radius of six hundred meters. In Buenos Aires there are about two thousand meters between one parish and the next. So I then told the priests: «If you can, rent a garage and, if you find some willing layman, let him go there! Let him be with those people a bit, do a little catechesis and even give communion if they ask him». A parish priest said to me: «But Father, if we do this the people then won’t come to church». «But why?» I asked him: «Do they come to mass now?» «No», he answered. And so! Coming out of oneself is also coming out from the fenced garden of one’s own convictions, considered irremovable, if they risk becoming an obstacle, if they close the horizon that is also of God. 

FALASCA: This is valid also for lay people… 

BERGOGLIO: Their clericalization is a problem. The priests clericalize the laity and the laity beg us to be clericalized… It really is sinful abetment. And to think that baptism alone could suffice. I’m thinking of those Christian communities in Japan that remained without priests for more than two hundred years. When the missionaries returned they found them all baptized, all validly married for the Church and all their dead had had a Catholic funeral. The faith had remained intact through the gifts of grace that had gladdened the life of a laity who had received only baptism and had also lived their apostolic mission in virtue of baptism alone. One must not be afraid of depending only on His tenderness… Do you know the biblical episode of the prophet Jonah? 

FALASCA: I don’t remember it. Tell us. 

BERGOGLIO: Jonah had everything clear. He had clear ideas about God, very clear ideas about good and evil. On what God does and on what He wants, on who was faithful to the Covenant and who instead was outside the Covenant. He had the recipe for being a good prophet. God broke into his life like a torrent. He sent him to Nineveh. Nineveh was the symbol of all the separated, the lost, of all the peripheries of humanity. Of all those who are outside, forlorn. Jonah saw that the task set on him was only to tell all those people that the arms of God were still open, that the patience of God was there and waiting, to heal them with His forgiveness and nourish them with His tenderness. Only for that had God sent him. He sent him to Nineveh, but he instead ran off in the opposite direction, toward Tarsis. 

FALASCA: Running away from a difficult mission… 

BERGOGLIO: No. What he was fleeing was not so much Nineveh as the boundless love of God for those people. It was that that didn’t come into his plans. God had come once… “and I’ll see to the rest”: that’s what Jonah told himself. He wanted to do things his way, he wanted to steer it all. His stubbornness shut him in his own structures of evaluation, in his pre-ordained methods, in his righteous opinions. He had fenced his soul off with the barbed wire of those certainties that instead of giving freedom with God and opening horizons of greater service to others had finished by deafening his heart. How the isolated conscience hardens the heart! Jonah no longer knew that God leads His people with the heart of a Father. 

FALASCA: A great many of us can identify with Jonah. 

BERGOGLIO: Our certainties can become a wall, a jail that imprisons the Holy Spirit. Those who isolate their conscience from the path of the people of God don’t know the joy of the Holy Spirit that sustains hope. That is the risk run by the isolated conscience. Of those who from the closed world of their Tarsis complain about everything or, feeling their identity threatened, launch themselves into battles only in the end to be still more self-concerned and self-referential. 

FALASCA: What should one do? 

BERGOGLIO: Look at our people not for what it should be but for what it is and see what is necessary. Without preconceptions and recipes but with generous openness. For the wounds and the frailty God spoke. Allowing the Lord to speak… In a world that we can’t manage to interest with the words we say, only His presence that loves us, saves us, can be of interest. The apostolic fervor renews itself in order to testify to Him who has loved us from the beginning. 

FALASCA: For you, then, what is the worst thing that can happen in the Church? 

BERGOGLIO: It is what De Lubac calls «spiritual worldliness». It is the greatest danger for the Church, for us, who are in the Church. «It is worse», says De Lubac, «more disastrous than the infamous leprosy that disfigured the dearly beloved Bride at the time of the libertine popes». Spiritual worldliness is putting oneself at the center. It is what Jesus saw going on among the Pharisees: «… You who glorify yourselves. Who give glory to yourselves, the ones to the others».

Francis “the devil”

Mother Superior Martha Rabino headed the kindergarten which the young child, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, attended for one year.

“...the boy and he was a devil”

(comment is at 33 seconds in the video)

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• Saint Francis!

Jorge Bergoglio was barred from the locker room of his beloved San Lorenzo football club

 Jorge Bergoglio’s ID card for his season pass

In 1998, Jorge Bergoglio was the 61 year old archbishop of Buenos Aires and a mega-fan of the San Lorenzo football club which was then known for losing.  The following story in the video below is recounted by the then newly hired coach of San Lorenzo, Alfio ‘Coco’ Basile.

As he was the new coach, the president of the football club,  Fernando Miele, told Coco to expect a guest in the locker room before his first game, “He’s a priest who always comes to greet the players before the game.”

Coco then relates, “I did not want anyone to break the [pregame] concentration of the players, so I told Miele, ‘Throw out the priest!’”

Coco explains, “If he always comes and they haven’t beat anyone, why should he be allowed in again?  So Miele tells him and the guy leaves.”

“In April of last year I met Miele in a restaurant, he said, ‘You saw who the Pope is?’  ’No’ And he tells me: ‘that was Bergoglio, the one you threw out of San Lorenzo's dressing room.’ I'm going to visit him in Rome, that’s how I tell it.  Ha, ha,” Coco finishes the story.

Interestingly, football (soccer) is a freemasonic spinoff of the sport of rugby.  It was created by freemasons drafting the rules on 26 October 1863 at Freemason’s Tavern, Great Queen Street in London, England.

Maybe Coco could do the world a favor

and throw Francis out of the Vatican.