Imagine the howls if a pope were to champion a dialogue with Fascism. Francis has never viewed Communism as a threat and some of his personal friends have been Marxists\Communists, hence his complete indifference to the deadly hostility shown to the Church by followers of Karl Marx. Heckuva job Conclave of 2013, heckuva job.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
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Imagine the howls if the pope championed dialogue with Cardinal Zen or Cardinal Burke!
Great point, Greg. He wants the whole church to “dialogue”™️ with the commies, but refuses even to speak to cardinals and bishops he doesn’t like; he just fires them and takes away their means of support. Priorities are on display. It needs to be said repeatedly: this is a petty, evil, and intellectually bankrupt man impersonating a successor of Peter. May God have mercy on his withered soul.
I suppose the proceedings of the conclaves are kept secret is to avoid being held to individually account for such as this.
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P Francis’ blindness to his own many fellow Jesuit China missionaries, who suffered grievously at the hands of the Maoists in China while he grew up safely in Argentina, is un conscionable.
The account of China missionary Fr John W Clifford, SJ (1917-2005):
Fr. John Clifford, SJ, also knew the reality of torture. After seven years working in Shanghai, he was arrested on June 15, 1953, in Shanghai and spent three years in prison enduring psychological torture meant to brainwash him. In his book, In the Presence of My Enemies (published in 1963 by W.W. Norton & Co.), he told of how he was tossed out of jail in 1956 by his captors who were enraged that he had not “submitted a confession nor given my captors a single fragmentary sentence of propaganda value. They freed me, even though at the last minute I refused to sign the papers they insisted were necessary. In other words, I behaved like a normal, stubborn American — and that is what saved me.”
Another saintly Jesuit in my humble opinion, China missionary Fr. William Ryan, SJ:
“Of all the Jesuits who served in China, perhaps the most well known to students at SI (St Ignatius Prep, San Francisco) was Fr. William Ryan, SJ. Though not an SI grad, he taught and counseled at SI between 1960 and 1989.
While serving as prefect of discipline at Aurora Preparatory and as associate pastor at Sacred Heart Church, both in Yangzhou City, Fr. Ryan went on trial, charged with being a spy. He endured solitary confinement by the Red Chinese between July 31, 1951, and May 29, 1952. In a 1988 interview, published in the Winter edition of Genesis II, he spoke of his experiences in prison: “I lost track of time, forgot how long I’d been in my cell. They took away our calendars. I had nothing but that cell. Four walls, a floor and a ceiling with a 15-watt bulb way up on top. No books…. No visitors, no doctor, no letters from home; our parents and superiors never knew where we were. Just a big hole, that’s all. They wanted to break us down.” After a series of brutal interrogations, the authorities released Fr. Ryan in 1952 to Irish Province Jesuits stationed in Hong Kong.”
(The Chinese Communists were devilishly clever and very aware of symbolism and historic days: . They arrested and threw Fr. Ryan into solitary confinement on St. Ignatius’ feast day, July 31, knowing this was a special day to all Jesuits.)
PF has proven time and again he is quite fine with Communists, be they Moaists, Marxists, European Social Democrats or South American Liberation Theologists. They are his people and with whom he has an affinity. They share a disdain for most of the commandments, particularly #6-10. Numbers 1-5 are open to dialogue.