Carrie Lam is a product of the Second Vatican Council.
“From day one, I have said this opportunity is given by God. Because if you analyse it rationally, you may not want to do this job – there are a lot of difficulties, sacrifices that may need to be made. But as God called upon me – to say that I am needed to continue serving Hong Kong society at this moment – I made my response.” [...] “I’ve said in public that regardless of their political affiliations, as long as that individual has the ability and is willing to serve, and his philosophy is aligned with mine, then I would be more than happy to invite him or her to join the politically appointed team.”
The CCP appointed the Novus Ordite, Carrie Lam, as the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
“Working in the SAR government [Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China], when you insist on doing the work of righteousness, you’ll often be given a hard time.”
[...]
“Some said that the eighth blessing applies very well to me – it says, ‘blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’ – there is already a place reserved for me in heaven.”
How does one become a bishop when he espouses something which is anti-Catholic?
“Right now, those who are best implementing the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese,” a senior Vatican official has said.
Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, praised the Communist state as “extraordinary”, saying: “You do not have shantytowns, you do not have drugs, young people do not take drugs”. Instead, there is a “positive national conscience”.
The bishop told the Spanish-language edition of Vatican Insider that in China “the economy does not dominate politics, as happens in the United States, something Americans themselves would say.”
Bishop Sánchez Sorondo said that China was implementing Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’ better than many other countries and praised it for defending Paris Climate Accord. “In that, it is assuming a moral leadership that others have abandoned”, he added.
[...]
As part of the diplomacy efforts, Bishop Sánchez Sorondo visited the country. “What I found was an extraordinary China,” he said. “What people don’t realise is that the central value in China is work, work, work. There’s no other way, fundamentally it is like St Paul said: he who doesn’t work, doesn’t eat.”
Francis, “The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended.” Is Francis then a Maoist?
Here we listen to Bishop Antônio Carlos Cruz Santos give his Novus Ordo version of what the church is and how he will run the diocese of Caicó. He mentions that his predecessor (Bishop Manuel Tavares de Araújo) signed the Pact of the Catacombs, sold the bishop’s palace (aka the fortress), and moved to a more simple residence then proceeded to make the focus of his ministries the poor and the peripheries (ala Francis). Cruz Santos clarifies by what is meant by peripheries — it is not just geographical but also means bringing the Novus Ordo to drug addicts and people who are shunned because of the gender they identify as. Then, Cruz Santos explains that catholic means universal so it has to include everyone. Next he goes on to decry human trafficking for sex workers, illegal adoptions, and slave labor but has the chutzpah to blames all of this on those who are silent and say they know nothing about it. In Cruz Santos’ book silence equals consent even when one has never seen human trafficking. Finally this sad man says that he wants to walk together with the people of his diocese.
This pro-homosexual bishop spews heresies out faster than Francis does in this video. He has a heretical ideas of what the Catholic Church is; that the Church discriminates against sinners even if they do not support the sin; rebels against the Church as a teacher; believes the in the concept of sin as defined by the Marxist liberation theology; believes people who morally discriminate are committing a social sin (i.e. people who don’t want their children around drug addicts or homosexuals); and doesn’t believe in the need for individual redemption.
Gee, who does this bishop remind us of...Francis? We’ll he should as that’s who promoted him to be the bishop of Caicó, Brazil in 2014.
Every time Francis comes forward with a new prayer request disaster befalls the intentions. Most famously was the war in the Ukraine. Almost no one recalls Francis praying for the Ukraine because that was the same infamous day his two ‘peace doves’ were attacked. The result of Francis’ prayers for Ukraine was that the president decided to dissolve the parliament and thing hurriedly got worse.
Francis has been asked about the Vatican’s diplomacy concerning Venezuela in two interviews. In the first both sides criticized the Vatican’s meddling. Francis explained that everyone has to come out a winner except for the Vatican in Venezuela. What!? How about acting like a pope and condemning the un-Catholic behaviors that are happening for starters? In the second interview Francis says that the reason for failure is that the parties involved can’t agree on anything. Isn’t this the same chaotic way that Francis runs his bureaucracy? Hey Francis, what happened to that ‘unity in diversity’ bunk? It doesn’t work in the real world does it?
Here’s what the situation looks like: the dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, says that the bishops don’t want to dialogue; Francis tells the bishops he has their back; the opposition is upset with the Vatican for dillydallying around; behind close doors Francis attempts to help Venezuela with refinancing their debts; and very quietly, Francis says he is concerned about the situation. And it goes on-and-on-and-on around in a merry-go-round of insanity spiraling ever so more out of control with each revolution. It is becoming increasingly apparent to the world and to Venezuelans that Francis has no clue about leadership and that he is not about to publicly castigate a fellow revolutionary.
“We know that our commander (Chavez) has gone to heaven and is face to face with Christ. He must have made such an impression for a South American to be chosen Pope.”
“A new hand arrived and Christ said, ‘Well, the time for South America has come.’ At any moment now (Chavez) will call for a constituent assembly in Heaven to change the Church, so that the people, the true people of Christ will govern the world.”
Uh oh, another Francis interview with the revolutionary atheist, Eugenio Scalfari. We can already hear the conservatives in the Novus Ordo lamenting...it doesn’t count! Scalfari doesn’t take notes or record his interviews, he does them all from memory! Well, whoopee! Isn’t it possible that Scalfari is 100% accurate with his published interviews, after all the man might possess a phenomenal photographic memory. Even if he doesn’t, Francis keeps going back to Eugenio Scalfari for interview after interview after interview ad nauseam. And remember, Francis has also repeatedly stated that the only newspaper which he reads every day is La Repubblica where Scalfari often publishes his pieces with Francis. So the Novus Ordo conservatives can’t play the Francis is ignorant damage control card. Without further ado, we present Scalfari’s interview with Francis below. This interview was published on 11 November 2016 in La Repubblica and also in the L'Osservatore Romano of 12 November 2016 on page 5.
I AM WRITING this article the day after Donald Trump's unexpected election victory over Hillary Clinton. But my topic is not what has happened in America but a long-awaited invitation for a meeting with Pope Francis. I had a long phone call with him the previous week because His Holiness wanted to discuss the visit that he would have three days later in Sweden with the Lutheran World Federation and the reform that gave rise to the Lutheran churches half a millennium ago. I refer to this conversation just to explain that although I am honoured to receive frequent phone calls from Pope Francis, we have not met in person for over a year. So I was very pleased to receive his invitation.
We met on Monday 7th and were together for over an hour. Two days earlier, on Saturday 5th, the Pope had met with representatives of the Popular Movements. These are movements with hundreds of thousands of adherents in the main Christian countries. Pope Francis’s speech to these volunteers of the faith takes up six pages of [Vatican daily]L'Osservatore Romano. Of course, when we met two days later, I had already read the full text of that speech. I have often written that Francis is a revolutionary, but this was beyond revolution... And now let's see how and why.
***
We embraced each other after a long time. “You look well,” he said.
You also look well, despite your continuing hardships. «It is the Lord who decides.»
And “our sister bodily death”. “Yes, bodily.”
The conversation was immediately profound.
Your Holiness - I asked him - what do you think of Donald Trump? “I do not pass judgment on people and politicians, I simply want to understand the suffering that their approach causes the poor and excluded”.
What is your main concern at the moment? “The question of refugees and immigrants. Only a small proportion of them are Christians, but this does not change the situation as far as we are concerned, or their suffering and distress. The causes are many and we are doing everything possible to remove them. Unfortunately, often these policies are opposed by populations that are afraid of losing jobs and of lower wages. Money is against the poor as well as against immigrants and refugees, but there are also poor people in rich countries who fear the arrival of their fellows from poor countries. It is a vicious circle and it must be broken. We must break down the walls that divide us: we must try to increase well-being and make it more widespread, but to achieve this we need to break down walls and build bridges that allow us to reduce inequality and increase freedom and rights. More rights and greater freedom".
I asked Pope Francis if the reasons that force people to emigrate will be exhausted sooner or later. It is hard to understand why a man, a family or entire communities and peoples want to abandon their homeland, the places where they were born, their language.
You, Your Holiness, through those bridges, will facilitate the re-uniting of those desperate people, but inequalities are born in rich countries. There are laws that try to reduce the gap but they do not have much effect. Will this phenomenon never end? “You have written and spoken several times about this problem. One of the phenomena that inequality encourages is the movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. After two, three, four generations, these peoples are integrated and their diversity tends to completely disappear".
I call it a universal miscegenation in the positive sense of the term. “Bravo, that is the right word. I do not know if it will be universal but it will be more prevalent than today. What we want is a battle against inequality, this is the greatest evil that exists in the world. It is money that creates it and that goes against those measures that try to make wealth more widespread and thus promote equality".
You told me some time ago that the precept, “Love your neighbour as thyself” had to change, given the dark times that we are going through, and become “more than thyself.” So you yearn for a society where equality dominates. This, as you know, is the programme of Marxist socialism and then of communism. Are you therefore thinking of a Marxist type of society? “It it has been said many times and my response has always been that, if anything, it is the communists who think like Christians. Christ spoke of a society where the poor, the weak and the marginalized have the right to decide. Not demagogues, not Barabbas, but the people, the poor, whether they have faith in a transcendent God or not. It is they who must help to achieve equality and freedom".
Your Holiness, I have always thought and written that you are a revolutionary and even a prophet. But it seems that now you would like the Popular Movements and especially the poor to enter directly into politics proper. “Yes, that is correct. Not petty politics – squabbling over power, selfishness, demagogy, money – but higher, creative, politics, the politics of great visions. That which Aristotle wrote about".
I saw that in your speech to the Popular Movements last Saturday you called the Ku Klux Klan, and the similar but opposite Black Panthers, shameful movements. But you said Martin Luther King was admirable. Was he another prophet who made an impression because of what he said in a free America? “Yes, I quoted him because I admire him".
I read the quotation; I think it is worth recalling for those reading this account of our meeting.
“When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system [...] hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil".
And now let’s return to politics and your wish that the poor and the excluded transform that politics into a democratic will to realise the ideals and the will of the popular movements. You advocated an interest in politics because it is Christ who wants it. “The rich must pass through the eye of a needle”. Christ wants it not because he is the son of God but above all because he is the son of man. But there will be a clash, power is at stake, and power, as you have said yourself, implies war. So popular movements must wage a war, albeit political, without weapons and without bloodshed? “I have never thought of war and weapons. Blood yes, may be shed, but it will be Christians who are martyred, as is happening almost all over the world at the hands of fundamentalists and ISIS terrorist executioners. They are terrible and the Christians are their victims".
But you, Holy Father, know that many countries are also using weapons to defeat ISIS. Moreover, weapons are also being used by Jews against Arabs, and even amongst themselves. “Well, it is not that kind of war that Christian popular movements must wage. We Christians have always been martyrs, yet our faith over the centuries has conquered much of the world. Of course, there have been wars supported by the Church against other religions, and there have even been wars within our religion. The most cruel was the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre and unfortunately many similar events. But they occurred when the various religions, including ours, sometimes more than others, placed temporal power above faith and mercy".
Yet you, Your Holiness, encourage popular movements to enter politics.Those who enter into politics will inevitably clash with their opponents. It may be a peaceful conflict, but conflict there is, and history tells us that in the conflicts the conquest of power is at stake. Without power you cannot win. “You are forgetting that there is also love. Often love convinces and thus wins. There are a billion and a half Catholics, eight hundred million Protestants of various denominations; three hundred thousand Orthodox Christians, then there are other denominations like Anglicans, Waldensians and Copts. All together there are two and a half billion Christian believers, perhaps more. Will it take weapons and wars? No. Martyrs? Yes, many".
And so you have gained power. «We have spread the faith following the example of Jesus Christ. He was the martyr of martyrs and gave humanity the seed of faith. But I know better than to ask martyrdom of those who grapple with a politics oriented towards the poor, for equality and freedom. This politics is something different from faith and there are many poor people who have no faith. Nevertheless, they have urgent and vital needs, and we must support them as we support all the others. As we can and as we know".
As I listen to you, I am ever more convinced of my opinion of you: that papacies such as yours have been few and far between. But you have many opponents inside your Church. “I would not call them opponents. Faith unites us all. Of course, all of us as individuals see the same things in different ways. Objectively the picture is the same, but subjectively it is different. We have said it many times, you and I".
Your Holiness, I have kept you too long and will leave you now.
At that point we said goodbye with an affectionate embrace. I told himto get some rest now and then and he replied: "You too should rest, because a non-believer like you should be as far from ‘bodily death’ as possible". It was the 7 November.
Translated by Kathryn Wallace
Screenshot of page 5, 12 November 2016, L'Osservatore Romano
Screenshot of front page of 11 November 2016, La Repubblica
“And they asked me, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and I said, ' a butcher!'”
The interviewer from Straatnieuws (a Dutch newspaper sold by
homeless people in the central city of Utrecht) arrives for
the super top secret interview with Francis.
Do you think so far your pontificate has been able to obtain a change of thinking, for example in politics? Pope
Francis: I would not know what to say. I do not know. I know that some
have said that I am a communist. But it is a dated category. Perhaps
today other words are used to say this ... Marxist, socialist ... Pope Francis: They have said this.
[...]
Do you enjoy this tour of the [St. Peter's] Square during the general audience ...
Pope Francis: Yes, it is true.
“I do not think so much about the fact that I'm famous.I say to myself: 'I have an important job now, but in ten years no one will know me anymore' (laughs).You know, there are two types of fame: the fame of the "big ones" who have done great things, like Madame Curie and the fame of the vain.The latter fame is like a soap bubble.”
“The Church must speak the truth and also testimony, the testimony of
poverty. If a believer speaks of poverty or homeless and leads a life
of Pharaoh ... this can not be possible.”
Isn't Francis condemning himself with his own words above?
Does he not speak of hunger while getting fatter by the day?
The construction has started for Francis' visit. The tower in the background is the José Martí Memorial.
Francis will offer his Novus Ordo mass in Havana, Cuba at the Revolution Square (Plaza de la Revolución). Originally the Revolution Square was named the Civic Square (Plaza Cívica) by President Fulgencio Batista (who had been elected President of Cuba and then several years later seized power in a coup). After Fidel Castro overthrew Batista, he gave the square its present name. The square houses a memorial to José Martí and is bordered by the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Information & Communications buildings which have iron images bolted to the sides of the buildings in homage to Ernesto Che Guevara & Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán. It is fitting that Francis who recently received a replica hammer & sickle crucifix while in Bolivia will hold his mass here. In all his endless rants on capitalism one never hears him criticize Marxism, socialism, or communism. Why is this? One last question, were there no other squares available in Cuba?
The José Martí Memorial at Revolution Square. José Martí was is a Cuban national hero and interestingly had a dergee in canon law and was a friend of Victor Hugo.
View of Revolution Square from the observation tower in the José Martí Memorial.
The iron portrait of communist Ernesto Che Guevara on the Ministry of Information building.
The iron portrait of anarchist Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán on the
Ministry of Information & Communications building.
"I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a
Christ.... I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at
my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get
nailed to a cross or any other place."
Born in 1932 in Barcelona, Fr. Espinal studied both philosophy and
theology before entering the Jesuit novitiate in Veruela in Zaragoza at
the age of 17.
The same year he traveled to Bergamo,
Italy to study audiovisual journalism. After two years he returned to
Spain and began to work for Spanish radio and television corporation TVE
at the height of Francisco Franco's rule.
Fr.
Espinola denounced the censorships placed on TVE under Franco and left
Spain. He moved to Bolivia in August 1968, where he took over as chair
in the journalism department of the Bolivian Catholic University, and
later become sub-director.
He was granted Bolivian
citizenship in 1970, and over the course of the next 10 years worked in
both the written and radio press, produced documentaries on social
themes and got into screenwriting.
As an avid defender
of human rights, the priest cofounded the Permanent Assembly of Human
Rights in Bolivia in 1976. During the 1971 military coup led by Hugo
Banzer Suarez, Fr. Espinola intervened on behalf of persecuted and
detained politicians and trade unions.
In 1977 he
participated in a three-week-long hunger strike to gain general amnesty
for political exiles, validity of trade unions and the withdrawal of the
army from mining centers.
In 1979 Fr. Espinola founded
the weekly newspaper “Aqui,” which was quickly dubbed “leftist” due to
its anti-establishment views and vocal criticism of government
corruption.
As a result of his work, the priest was kidnapped by a group of paramilitaries March 21, 1980, while on his way home.
According
to police and militants at the time, the militants took Fr. Espinola to
La Paz' Achachicala slaughterhouse, where he was tortured for five
hours before being shot 17 times. His body was found handcuffed and
gagged the next morning.
In 2007, Morales officially
declared March 21 as the “Day of Bolivian Cinema” due to the priest’s
contributions in the area. On that day, cinemas and television channels
are obliged to show national films, particularly relating to the themes
of human rights and indigenous peoples.
Fr. Lombardi noted during a July 6 press briefing that no cause has been opened for Fr. Espinal's beatification.
Luis Espinal Camp, the Marxist-Jesuit priest at work.
Fr. Espinal, who considered himself a "worker priest" remained in the
capital, La Paz, where he lived in a poor neighborhood with two other
Jesuits. He worked as a theater critic for the daily newspaper Presencia
and initially designed his own show on national television, in which he
reported on the "worker priests" and took interviews with members of
the Marxist guerrilla movement Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). In
1971 he was awarded Bolivian citizenship. From that year until his
death he was a member of the Jesuit radio station Radio Fides and chief
editor of the weekly newspaper he founded, Aquí as a mouthpiece left
"popular movements". He supported the miners' movement, founded in 1976
the human rights organization, Asamblea de Derechos Humanos and joined a
public hunger strike in 1977 with the demand for democratization.
Luis
Espinal was one of a number of Jesuits and got closer to various forms
of Marxism. Unlike his brothers he did not go over to armed struggle.
When
the Leftist Nationalist, Lidia Gueiler Tejada from the interim
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement of Bolivia, was the President of the
Republic, Espinal was abducted and murdered on March 21, 1980. Whether
the offenders were sent by the drug cartels that soon afterwards
supported the dictatorship of Luis García Meza Tejada, or from one of
the various rapidly changing, and disempowered military rulers could
never be clarified. Espinal followers see the reason in his public
criticism of an amnesty for crimes during the tenure of President
Banzer.
Luis
Espinal left Spain because he felt stiffled by the censorship of Franco's government. After Luis had lived in Bolivia for a time he wrote that, "The liberation of the workers will be the work of themselves." Yup, that sounds the opposite of what Christ said,"I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me." (John 14,6)
The hammer & sickle crucifix, hand carved by and used by the late Fr. Luis Espinal Camps, S.J. It is kept at the Jesuit headquarters in La Paz, Bolivia.
Francis didn't know Luis Espinal had carved a crucifix like this.
The two medals presented to Francis by Evo Morales. Notice the same hammer & sickle crucifix as the emblem on the top one. Also, the two co-official flags of Bolivia. Since 2009, Bolivia has had two flags. The rainbow colored flag is called the Wiphala of Qullasuyu or the Túpac Katari Wisphala and the rainbow supposedly stands for the indigenous people and the land they live in. Coincidentally, the flag has 7 colors as does the Noahide Rainbow. The Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (Ejército Guerrillero Túpac Katari) traces its origins to the revolutionaries trained by Che Guevara. We bring this last point up only because one of the Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army's former members, Álvaro García Linera, is the current vice-president of Bolivia.
News media outlets and conservative Catholic websites went into overdrive after the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, gave the two hammer & sickle crucifixes to Francis as presents. They claimed Francis uttered, “This is not right," when receiving the gift and used a still shot taken out of context, ignoring the smile seen in the video on Francis' face and the fact that he accepted both gifts! Great job reporting guys! Our take on it is that those in the media doing the reporting still see communism as evil and projected their own desires onto Francis and they further didn't do their work, checking what was actually said in the video. In our opinion at Call Me Jorge..., Francis should have slapped Morales across the face for presenting him with blasphemous gifts like this and walked out of the room at the least. Instead of the falsely attributed quote, he said, “I didn't know that.” Doesn't sound like a condemnation does it?
English subtitles of what transpired in brief exchange between Morales and Francis when hammer & sickle crucifix was given
Here is a transcript of the words exchanged between Morales and Francis, extracted from the clips based on the audio and subtitles:
[Morales:] Santidad, han tallado afortunadamente el símbolo de la cruz del martillo y de la hoz que es probablemente obra de Espinal, Luis de Espinal… Interesante como símbolo.
[Francis:] No sabía eso.
[Morales:] Ya lo sabe.
And now the same in English:
[Morales:] Your Holiness, fortunately they have made the symbol of the hammer-and-sickle cross, which is probably the work of Espinal, Luis de Espinal. It’s an interesting symbol.
Rome Reports finally corrects their error, kind of
Are
you sitting down dear reader? The Vatican said, the hammer &
sickle cross was not a sign of ideology but one of dialogue! They used the same explanation Xavier Albo gave. Thanks for
the clarification Fr. Lombardi. The communists should remember that
line next time they are massacring Christians.
Instead of reading Francis' new encyclical Laudato si', the Vatican and all Catholics should take the time to read two encyclicals which condemn the same socialism and communism Francis so admires.
"Let's
say together with our heart: no family without a roof, no peasant
farmer without land, no worker without rights, no person without
dignified labour!"
“Land, roof, and work … It’s odd, but for some, if I talk about these [subjects], it turns out the pope is a communist.”
