Francis Says Cuba is a "Symbol" -- Of What?

 

Pope Francis and his love for Cuba

Pope Francis called Cuba "a symbol" in an interview. A symbol? But for what? This question was asked by John Horvat, the vice-chairman of Tradition, Family, Private Property in the USA.

On July 12, Pope Francis gave an interview to Televisa Univision's streaming service ViX. "The Pope's remarks have caused consternation among the people suffering in this communist island prison."

Francis said:

"I love the Cuban people very much. I also confess that I have a human relationship with Raúl Castro."

Raúl Castro, Fidel Castro's brother, was his successor until 2018 as head of state and government of Cuba and until 2021 as chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).

According to John Horvat, this is like saying that the Pope "loves the inmates of this prison but gets along well with the prison director who is responsible for their suffering."

To add to the confusion, the Pope called Cuba a "symbol" and a country with "a great history." But what is Cuba "a symbol" of or for, and what "great story" does Francis mean? It could not be the brutal communist dictatorship of the past 63 years.

"The remarks come just over a year after the largest anti-government protests the country has seen in decades to demand liberation from communism. The protests were so fierce that many thought the end of the regime might be in sight. However, the communist regime brutally suppressed the peaceful demonstrations. Many protesters were arbitrarily arrested, tortured and sentenced to draconian prison terms. The Vatican and the West let this anniversary pass uncommented."

  

In the meantime, the misery continues, and it shows "how indifferent the West is to the suffering of Cuba."

The recent outbreak of dengue fever revealed shortages, supply shortages, poor organization, and a precarious public health situation, even though Cuba boasts of making entire medical trains available to foreign states. Patients must bring their own bedding if they need to go to the hospital.

"Many hospitals lack running water and basic supplies. There is a shortage of medicines that are readily available in any pharmacy in other countries. The lack of fuel affects the emergency services when transporting patients. The situation is exacerbated by the power outages lasting several hours per day. The authorities blame a 'power generation deficit', which means that several power plants do not work because, like most of the country's other infrastructure, they are not maintained or repaired. Chronic food shortages and civil unrest also contribute to the disaster."

 

Cuba, according to John Horvat, is "clearly a country in distress and in need of help." Although this precarious state of affairs has lasted for decades, Horvat said, "the communist rulers insist that the country does not need help."

"Even worse, liberation theologians and Western leftists call Cuba a model, even a paradise, for the world. They spread the myth that Cuba has one of the best health systems in the world. Meanwhile, the population is dying because of the shortcomings of the health care system."

The supposedly generous awarding of medical trains to foreign countries initially says nothing about their quality, but above all even less about the quality of the Cuban health care system. On the contrary, it rather reveals its precarious condition, because only through the loan to foreign countries do these doctors receive a regular wage. The situation is comparable to absolutist monarchies in the early modern period, which leased troops abroad in order to gain revenue for the state coffers and thus ensure the salary for the soldiers, which they themselves could hardly have paid.

"Cuba is indeed a symbol," Horvat said. "On the one hand, it symbolizes the continuation of communist tyranny, misery and brutality. Moreover, for the West, it is a painful symbol of its own indifference and hypocrisy. And those who are still resisting in Cuba are a symbol of Christian courage and perseverance that anticipates the day when they will be free to write the 'great story' that awaits them."

 

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Vatican.va (Screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Police State Nicaragua

On Saturday, Nicaraguan National Police surrounded Managua Cathedral to obstruct a prayer "for the Church and for Nicaragua."

For the First Time in 30 Years, a Procession Has Been Halted -- Priest Arrested

(Managua) The anti-Church measures in Nicaragua are becoming open repression. Nevertheless, Pope Francis is silent on the persecution, as it showed itself this weekend.

Events in the Central American country are unfolding. In Managua, the police had surrounded the cathedral. In various parts of the country, the processions for the feast of the Assumption of Mary had been banned. The prelude was the ban on a procession planned for August 13. An unprecedented event in the history of the country since the end of the Sandinista revolutionary government in 1990. The Sandinista regime cited "a threat to internal security" as the reason.

With this justification, the ban on a large procession "for the Church and for Nicaragua" was first imposed. This procession had been planned for August 13 at the end of the Marian Congress. In the procession, a statue of Our Lady of Fatima was to be carried through the streets of Managua.

The police extensively monitored the area around the congress and obstructed the faithful from reaching the congress grounds. Buses and cars were stopped, the people checked and partly prevented from continuing their journey. The Archdiocese of Managua, because of the ban on the procession, called on the faithful to come to the cathedral after the end of the Marian Congress to pray for the aforementioned petitions.

Sandinista hostility to the Church: "Demons in cassocks"

Head of state and government Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo accuse the church of planning a coup d'état in 2018 to put an end to Sandinista rule. In reality, the ecclesiastical hierarchy had sought mediation between the socialist regime and the people who had gathered in the streets for mass protests. Ortega brutally suppressed the protests. Hundreds of people were killed. Since then, the Church has been subjected to numerous harassments and has been openly persecuted for months. The reason for this is that Ortega and Murillo are convinced that the critics of the regime gather in the protection of the Church, which is why they see in every procession and every prayer an anti-regime rally.

Police contingent for intimidation and ready to access

On Twitter, a user wrote on the news that the police had surrounded the cathedral of Managua:

"If it is an attack to attend Mass, FAITH is the only thing this dictatorship is afraid of." 

Ortega's wife, who has served as vice president since 2017, attacks the Church almost daily, calling priests "imposters" and "manipulators." 

Ortega himself described the country's bishops as "demons with cassocks." In the past two months alone, the Ortega-Murillo couple has closed eleven radio stations and five television stations. Most of them were under Church sponsorship. Most recently, the regime closed Radio Darío in the city of León last Friday.

Bishop Álvarez of Matagalpa is held "hostage" by the police in his Curia, as his confrere Msgr. Baéz criticized. Álvarez criticized the government's measures on Twitter:

"They have shut down all our radio stations, but they will not silence the Word of God."

 

Since August 4th, the police have been besieging the diocesan curia of Matagalpa. Since then, the bishop has been held in it together with several priests, some seminarians and two laymen. As he continues his criticism via social networks, the regime has since initiated criminal proceedings against him for allegedly "organizing violent groups" and "inciting hatred."

In various parts of the country, Monday, on the feast of the Assumption, the police prohibited priests from carrying out traditional processions or other activities outside the churches.

Yesterday, the country's Episcopal Conference also criticised the arrest of priests without being accused of anything. [Reminds one of the treatment the FFI got from Bergoglio and Volpe.] For example, the diocese of Siuna in the north of the country announced the arrest of Don Oscar Benavidez of the Holy Spirit Church in Mulukukú. The priest had been arrested on Sunday afternoon "without giving reasons or motives". The diocese demanded information from the state about the whereabouts of the priest. However, the police refused to confirm the arrest themselves.

The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights CENDIH announced that the priest was "taken out of his vehicle and taken away in a patrol car in an unknown direction," and called for "an end to the persecution of the Church and its clergy."

Mulukukú was a center of anti-Sandinista resistance in the first Ortega dictatorship in the 80s.

"No freedom of religion, no freedom of expression"

Nicaraguan priest Edwin Román, who lives in exile in the U.S., told VOA News that in Nicaragua there is "no freedom of religion, no freedom of expression, no freedom of movement."

Bishop Silvio José Báez, who expressed his solidarity with Bishop Álvarez on Twitter, also lives in exile in the USA today. According to official language regulations, the regime critic had asked Pope Francis in 2019 to release him from his office as auxiliary bishop of Managua. In reality, Francis had presented his head to the regime by calling him – "for his safety" – to the Vatican. Initially, it was said that he would be given a new task there until his return to Nicaragua would be possible again. But that was not the case. Bishop Báez was not given a task in Rome out of consideration for the Ortega regime. Instead, the Carmelite was assigned a Jesuit community in Florida as his place of residence. [Imagine the stench of iniquity?]

For years, the Church has been in a field of tension that weighs heavily on it. While the Church in Nicaragua is being persecuted more and more brutally, Pope Francis is silent on this while dictator Ortega calls Francis his "friend." Neither on Sunday nor yesterday did Francis comment on the events in Nicaragua at the Angelus in St. Peter's Square.

The "friendship" could be captured in pictures last Saturday, when the entrances to the Marian Congress in Managua were monitored by the police and the cathedral was surrounded by national police. Nevertheless, several thousand Nicaraguans managed to reach the cathedral and pray there "for the Church and for Nicaragua".

The area around the cathedral, located in the center of the capital, was the scene of large mass protests against the Ortega regime in 2018. Since then, public rallies have been suppressed by the state. Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Archbishop of Managua and Primate of Nicaragua, said on August 13th, apparently addressing the government: "Lord forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."

Characteristic of the repressive climate in Nicaragua, the mask requirement still enforced in the summer of 2022 due to an alleged corona threat that applies even to outdoor gatherings.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Twitter (Screenshots)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Bergoglio Meets Aberrosexual Transvestite Prostitutes of the Roman Markets

Pope Francis received a group of homo-trans prostitutes on Wednesday for the fourth time this year.

(Rome) The Pope has had four meetings with transgender prostitutes in the past few months, the Osservatore Romano noted, in order to ensure the latest encounter deserves due attention.

According to the Spanish daily ABC, Francis addressed homosexual prostitutes with “love, fatherliness and simplicity”. This corresponds to “the goal of the Church to restore these people their dignity by freeing themselves from the slavery that prostitution entails”.

Four transgender groups have already been received by Pope Francis in 2022. The most recent meeting took place last Wednesday, August 10th, during the general audience. The Osservatore Romano, the Pope's daily newspaper, who prefers the leftist La Repubblica. reported under the headline: "Revolution and Hope". 

Under Francis, the left-wing word “revolution” was hastily and inflationarily used in the Church as well. Nothing is more foreign to the Church than the revolution, whose archetype, the French Revolution, became the catalyst for the most radical attacks against the Church and the divine order and became the model for state terror.

Wednesday's meeting came about through the Comunità della Beata Vergine Immacolata in Torvaianica, a Roman seaside resort whose streets and beaches are rotten with gay prostitution.

The French nun Geneviève Jeanningros and the priest Andrea Conocchia take care of the transgender prostitutes who are coveted among homosexuals. Homo-prostitution in Rome, which is veiled under the term “transgender”, briefly came into the limelight when the then head of government of the Latium region, the left-wing democrat, Piero Marrazzo, lost his office in 2009 after a sex and drug video of him with a homo-trans prostitute had emerged.

Sr. Geneviève was also the driving force behind the previous meetings with Francis. She belongs to the Little Sisters of Jesus and is based in Ostia.

In April 2020, a few months after the start of the pseudopandemic, papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski sent “help to the homo-trans prostitutes of Torvaianica because they had lost their customers to Corona and were in a desperate situation,” according to ABC.

However, the aim of the community around Sr. Geneviève is to liberate the living “supply” for the homo market from the slavery of prostitution, as the Osservatore Romano emphasizes.

"The Pope's attention to people living in great suffering opens up unimaginable hopes."

 

According to Giampaolo Mattei in the Pope's newspaper, the way in which Francis received these people could "become a spark that stimulates a new life".

"And if that isn't a revolution! The Pope who receives transgender people in audience and addresses them with love, fatherliness and simplicity,” Don Conocchia is quoted as saying.

"No human being should be singled out, everyone has the dignity of being a child of God," said Sr. Geneviève.

The conversion of those affected is the immediate pastoral aspect. In addition to this, there are others: all in all, important things remain unsaid. Essential aspects of the problem of homo-prostitution are not addressed. The desired androgyny of the male prostitute is a direct answer to a request from the homosexual clientele.

Sin is the great absentee. It doesn't seem to exist anymore. Repentance is not shamefully called by its name, nor is witness given for it. Everything is reduced to the question of the "dignity" of the prostitutes who are presented as victims. To a certain extent, they undoubtedly are, but that is only one side of the phenomenon that cannot be done justice by looking at it in isolation. The. Church degrades itself to a social welfare association when, in leftist diction, it stylizes everything as a problem of oppression and discrimination, thereby ignoring the nature of man and sin.

In the climate of a forced homosexualization of public life, comparable papal initiatives can also send out wrong signals - when they are not even wanted.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image Vatican.va (screenshot)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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The Man Who Advised John Paul II Not to Mention Russia

Cardinal Jozef Tomko (1924-2022) died yesterday in Rome.  After World War II in Rome, he was an important point of contact for the persecuted Church in Czechoslovakia.  That is why he was valued by Pope John Paul II and was appointed to high offices by him.

(Rome) The Slovak Curial Cardinal Jozef Tomko died yesterday in Rome at the age of 98.  He was the oldest living cardinal in the world.

Tomko died at his home in Rome, where he was being cared for by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul.  After being admitted to the Pontifical University Hospital Gemelli on June 25 for a cervical spine injury, he spent six weeks in the hospital and was cared for at home from Saturday August 6.  During his hospital stay, he received a visit from Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, VaticanNews reported.

In a November 2000 interview with Inside The Vatican Magazine, it was revealed that it was Jozef Tomko who had advised Pope John Paul II to treat Russia differently than Our Lady of Fatima would have liked, at the 1984 consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in St. Peter's Square.  Although Tomko's name was not mentioned in the magazine, he was later identified as the advisor mentioned.  Apparently, Tomko, who was made a cardinal the following year, acted out of supposed "prudence" so as not to irritate the Soviet bear.

Jozef Tomko, born in 1924, was studying in Rome at the end of the war.  Because of the communist takeover of power in the Czechoslovak Republic, which was reestablished after the Second World War, he remained in the Eternal City, where he was ordained a priest in 1949 and received a triple doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University: doctorate in theology, canon law and social sciences.

 

Coat of Arms of Cardinal Tomko

From 1950 he was Vice Rector of the Pontifical Collegium Nepomucenum.  After the First World War, all candidates for the priesthood from the Czechoslovak Republic studied there, as did the German Bohemians and German Moravians until 1938.  Since the separation of Slovakia, the Czech Bishops' Conference has been responsible for the facility.  The Nepomucenum, named after John Nepomuk, the Czech saint best known in the universal Church, became an important center for the persecuted Church behind the Iron Curtain and a repository for information on the situation in the communist states, particularly Czechoslovakia, under Tomko.

From 1959 Tomko also worked at the Roman Curia, first for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, then for the Congregation for Bishops.  In 1965 he was withdrawn from the Nepomucenum due to the reorientation of Vatican foreign policy.  From 1970 taught as a professor at the Gregoriana.  In 1979, Pope John Paul II, who had known the exiled Slovak for years, made him titular archbishop and appointed him general secretary of the synod of bishops.  This promotion of Tomko, who was described by communist news services as a “staunch anti-communist”, was one of several signals John Paul II sent towards the Eastern bloc at the very beginning of his pontificate.  All in all, Tomko was considered a “close confidant” of the Polish Pope, as the secret service of the then People’s Republic of Hungary reported to Budapest.

In retrospect it is interesting that even Tomko, a man who was so well informed about the situation in the Czech and Slovak churches, was only a limited supporter of the underground Church there.  He harbored doubts that the underground priests could reach the majority of the population, limited in the cities and scarcely in the countryside.

Finally, in 1985, the Polish Pope created him a cardinal and appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Propaganda Fide), a task he held for three terms.  From 2001 he became President of the Pontifical Committee for the World Eucharistic Congresses.

Under Benedict XVI due to old age, Tomko no longer held any active posts in the Curia, but he was the Pope's special envoy on several occasions.  Although Tomko was a cardinal for 37 years, he never participated in a conclave as a papal elector.

The cardinal was a member of both the 2010-2012 active Ruini Commission investigating the Medjugorje phenomenon and the Commission investigating Vatileaks.  Both commissions were established by Pope Benedict XVI.  

 With the death of Cardinal Jozef Tomko, Cardinal Alexandre do Nascimento, born in 1925 and Archbishop Emeritus of Luanda in Angola, is now the oldest living cardinal in the world.

 Requiescat in pace.

John Paul II sprinkles ashes on Cardinal Tomko's head on Ash Wednesday 1998.

 Text: Giuseppe Nardi

 Image: Wikicommons/MiL

Jewish Busybody Wants January 6 Protesters to be Punished

Edit: "Remember that these people want you broke, dead, your children taped and brainwashed, and they think it's funny."

There are Jewish conservatives, doncha know.

[Washington Times] Ben Shapiro said Friday that pro-Trump rioters should rot in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol, contrasting himself with other prominent conservatives who recently complained about their incarceration.

Mr. Shapiro, an author, podcast host and co-founder of The Daily Wire conservative news website, made the remark during a panel discussion on the latest episode of the HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher”.

Fellow panelist Malcolm Nance said during the show that former President Trump mobilized 40,000 “to lay siege to the Capitol,” but only a fraction of that figure breached the building, Mr. Shapiro noted.

Cinema time!  Graphic and horrific scenes.

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What The Catholic Grift Operation Won’t Tell You About Who’s Responsible

 

https://www.d2l.org/protecting-orthodox-jewish-kids/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvRM2bIRjJgc5-HiF9kkRXb4bnFGr9MMl

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Guess his alignment

Anderson & Associates endorses Marxist org

Edit: although various Jewish organizations openly attack the Catholic Church and sometimes even say it should be shut down, maybe it’s time to shut something else down, considering that child abuse by Rabbis is so widespread it could be called an epidemic.

Why don’t all those alleged Catholic gatekeepers like Taylor Marshall, Thug Gordon, Marcy Shea, Eve Tushnet, Dawn Eden, Simcha Fischer, Holy Soy Skojack, Gary Voris, Budgie, Dale Alquist and Sciambra among a host of others, say absolutely nothing about  these vermin who openly commit these crimes, often with impunity?

The person talking to his wife about shutting down the Catholic Church is Ethan Klein.

https://gab.com/Firebird2000jc/posts/108778144079573928

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The Mark Shea groupies have taken over the world

OBSERVATIONS FROM MY TRIP TO POLAND

Meanwhile, Francis thinks the TLM must go away

Sandanista KGB Retreat Before Blessed Sacrament Held by Bishop During Siege

Edit: somebody please write Amnesty International. Sorry, just kidding. Please pray and consider sacrifices for Catholics living under oppression in the Vatican and everwhere there are Communists calling the shots!  Thanks for donating to Katholisches.

Nicaraguan National Police and a special unit cordon off the Curia of the Diocese of Matagalpa, where Bishop Álvarez and his vicar general are staying.

(Managua) The National Police and a special unit of the Sandinista Ortega regime besieged the Curia of the Diocese of Matagalpa and prevented the bishop from entering it.

Similar repressive attempts at intimidation had taken place several times in the past few months. The bishop himself was followed at every turn by plainclothes police, which is why he even went on a hunger strike. Since the strongest critic of the socialist regime among the bishops was retired by Pope Francis, Bishop Álvarez has taken over this position.

Because the police are besieging parishes in his diocese, Bishop Rolando Álvarez announced that he would celebrate a Mass with the intention of asking for protection for his priests. A celebration in the cathedral was impossible because of the police presence. So the bishop went with the vicar general, six priests and six laymen to the episcopal curia to celebrate in the chapel there.

Bishop Álvarez reported on the radio that he was going to go to the besieged parish to celebrate with the faithful when he was told that the curia had also been surrounded by police forces. The bishop went to where his vicar general was already.

The Chief of Police of the Department of Matagalpa, Sergio Gutiérrez, who was present, asked the Bishop to cooperate, to which the Bishop replied: "You are the ones who do not cooperate".

"Those who don't cooperate are the police forces because they don't let priests into churches or seminarians into seminars for Eucharistic adoration, liturgy, communion and prayer.
And now the police are asking me to cooperate. The police say we are the ones causing fear, when they are the ones blocking access to the Curia, the ones standing on my doorstep and not letting anyone in."

  

Bishop Álvarez accused the national police, led by Francisco Díaz, a close confidant of President Ortega, of "not allowing freedom of movement, freedom of expression and freedom of religion".

"I ask the police, in all courtesy and before the Lord, to let us celebrate the Eucharist, to adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and to leave the door of my house, the door of the Curia, and let in the faithful who are entering the Church coming to worship his Lord."

And further:

"The devil wants to lead us into the temptation of hate, despair and division. Hate is answered with love, division is answered with unity, and despair with hope."

  

If the police want to enter his home, he welcomes them, the bishop said, but they should end the cordon that prevents him from entering and others from accessing him.

The bishop tried to hug the police chief and officers present "as a sign of peace, but they wouldn't allow it."

The bishop knelt down in the street to pray and had the Holy of Holies brought to him by the Vicar General. With this he finally approached the police, who backed off. This made it possible for the bishop and his vicar general to enter the curia. The six other priests and six lay people who were with the bishop were denied entry.

According to the bishop, he will remain in the curia together with his vicar general. In the chapel there he celebrated the mass to protect the priests, which was broadcast on the church radio station.

In his sermon, he complained that plainclothes police officers attended masses, recorded sermons, and "investigated us as if we were plotting a conspiracy."

Recently, in the Diocese of Matagalpa alone, the Sandinista regime shut down six Catholic radio stations in a bid to choke off the Church's voice.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image : Twitter/César Jiménez Mtz

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Traditionis custodes is the Monkeypox of Catholicism

The TLM needs to be sidelined to make room for this.

Do they persist in error? Discuss

Woman Builds Altar to Her Abortion

 

Edit: while the likes of Mark Shea and the rest of the lowlifes at Patheos are embracing the Satanic aberrosexual vision of Cardinal Bernardin, this woman is literally winning people over to the pro-life position by her feminizing insanity.

It brings to mind the story of Pentheus, the King of Thebes, who laments the fall of Thebes to the spell of the god Dionysios. As he attempts to confront the revels of the Bacchanalia, he is torn to pieces by his mother anb her sisters in a frenzy of madness, thinking him a wild boar. His mother only realizes what she’s done when she awakens from the trance and sees her son’s head in her hands. 

One of the most interesting things I’ve read in a while.

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