NEWS: October 2, 2024
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Bird’s Eye View of the News
LAND, HOUSING, WORK –
Tierra, Techo, Trabajo are the three words in Spanish, the 3T, that summarize the agenda of the Popular Movements. Representatives of these movements were officially received on September 20, 2024, by Pope Francis at the Vatican to commemorate their 10th anniversary. Popular Movements is a demagogic term invented by Francis that refers to the many revolutionary communist groups around the world that are directly inspired by his beloved Liberation Theology.
The event was covered by L’Osservatore Romano on that same September 20, as well as in its September 23 issue, which transcribed Francis’ long speech. I am using these sources to write these comments.
/bev297_Tab.jpg)
To encourage the participants, before the meeting it was announced that Pope Francis is releasing a new book containing the speeches he has delivered to the Popular Movements for the last 10 years. Then, a five-and-a-half minute video was launched that plays some excerpts from Bergoglio’s subversive message. You may watch it
here.
The actual meeting started with a presentation by Card. Michael Czerny, SJ, head of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. He focused on a passage from Proverbs: “Open thy mouth for the dumb … Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the needy and poor,” (31: 8-9) which he summarized in the catchphrase: “We should be the voice of those without a voice.” This was the leitmotif of his brief talk.
He came to the conclusion that the great problem is not the voice of the poor, which has been heard everywhere thanks to the efforts of the Conciliar Church, but the deafness of the rich… Although the Jesuit Cardinal said that the solution should not be violent, it seems that this would be the only door left open, after he presented the rich as hopelessly stubborn.
Next, three lay persons from Sri Lanka, South Africa and Argentina spoke on land, housing and work, representing respectively the Peasant Way (Via Campesina), the Slum Dwellers International and the Worker’s Union for the People’s Economy (Union de los Trabajadores de la Economia Popular).
Still preceding Francis address, known leftist agitator Juan Grabois – also from Argentina – presented the Road Map for the Popular Movements:/bev297_Fis.jpg)
There is nothing new here. It is the same Liberation Theology message of the last 50 years, which has promoted the invasions of farms and houses led by “pastoral” agents who hand out machetes and rifles to kill the owners and destroy the properties – with everything blessed by priests.
Since Bergoglio became Pope, he has been using the papal authority to pressure governments to approve laws favoring this communist agenda. He uses the Popular Movements as part of the maneuver: He appears to be “counseling” governments to change, yet these movements act as matter-of-fact invaders who take over properties.
So, now we come to the papal address.
A minestrone soup
I am guessing that L’Osservatore Romano had to postpone the publication of Francis’ talk for another issue because it was so long that it could not fit into the first issue published on the day of the meeting. Indeed, it was long: It is a 4,928-word talk printed on 11 pages (small font…). You may view it here.
/bev297_3ts.jpg)
/bev297_Gra.jpg)
I printed it out and read it. I could not find any logic in the whole speech. Francis’ talk appeared to me as an opportunity for him to vent his anti-capitalist hatred in a patchwork quilt of disconnected themes without any intellectual concern.
Dictators like Fidel Castro and demagogues like Juan Peron used to deliver long speeches before their subservient audiences, who could not complain or they would be duly “dismissed.” Francis seems to have adopted the style of these leaders he admires.
Since the Vatican staff itself could not divide his speech into rational parts – there were neither subtitles nor even paragraphs as points of references – I will try to dish out some tidbits from this minestrone soup to give my readers a taste of it. (I am translating from the Italian text)
Class struggle
In 5,000 words he almost forgot to mention Jesus Christ, of whom he should be the Vicar on earth. Indeed, I only found the name of Jesus used four times, and then just in passing. Instead, in each paragraph I found strong revolutionary language employed to destroy what is left of Christian Civilization in today’s society.
Sadly, today this is what a truly progressivist Pope does…
The event was covered by L’Osservatore Romano on that same September 20, as well as in its September 23 issue, which transcribed Francis’ long speech. I am using these sources to write these comments.
Bergoglio meets representatives of the
Popular Movements at Palazzo San Calisto
The actual meeting started with a presentation by Card. Michael Czerny, SJ, head of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. He focused on a passage from Proverbs: “Open thy mouth for the dumb … Open thy mouth, decree that which is just, and do justice to the needy and poor,” (31: 8-9) which he summarized in the catchphrase: “We should be the voice of those without a voice.” This was the leitmotif of his brief talk.
He came to the conclusion that the great problem is not the voice of the poor, which has been heard everywhere thanks to the efforts of the Conciliar Church, but the deafness of the rich… Although the Jesuit Cardinal said that the solution should not be violent, it seems that this would be the only door left open, after he presented the rich as hopelessly stubborn.
Next, three lay persons from Sri Lanka, South Africa and Argentina spoke on land, housing and work, representing respectively the Peasant Way (Via Campesina), the Slum Dwellers International and the Worker’s Union for the People’s Economy (Union de los Trabajadores de la Economia Popular).
Still preceding Francis address, known leftist agitator Juan Grabois – also from Argentina – presented the Road Map for the Popular Movements:
- Land (Tierra) – An integral agrarian reform to give land to everyone;
- Housing (Techo) – A socio-urban reform in each country to provide every person with his own house;
- Work (Trabajo) – The establishment of a mixed economy where the public and the private spheres will be integrated with the “popular” (people’s) sphere so that there will no longer be jobless people.
An indignant Francis shows his fist & rails against Capitalism in his long speech
Since Bergoglio became Pope, he has been using the papal authority to pressure governments to approve laws favoring this communist agenda. He uses the Popular Movements as part of the maneuver: He appears to be “counseling” governments to change, yet these movements act as matter-of-fact invaders who take over properties.
So, now we come to the papal address.
A minestrone soup
I am guessing that L’Osservatore Romano had to postpone the publication of Francis’ talk for another issue because it was so long that it could not fit into the first issue published on the day of the meeting. Indeed, it was long: It is a 4,928-word talk printed on 11 pages (small font…). You may view it here.
Above, Francis arriving at the meeting; below Juan Grabois agitating the masses
Dictators like Fidel Castro and demagogues like Juan Peron used to deliver long speeches before their subservient audiences, who could not complain or they would be duly “dismissed.” Francis seems to have adopted the style of these leaders he admires.
Since the Vatican staff itself could not divide his speech into rational parts – there were neither subtitles nor even paragraphs as points of references – I will try to dish out some tidbits from this minestrone soup to give my readers a taste of it. (I am translating from the Italian text)
Class struggle
- “Do not let the people become resigned; the people must organize themselves and persevere in the daily building of the community, and, at the same time, the fight against the structures of social injustice.”
- “If the Popular Movements do not complain, if you do not raise your voice, if you do not fight, if you do not awake the consciousness [of others], things will be more difficult.”
- “Continue to combat this criminal economy with the people’s economy. I am not sure if it is licit to speak of a ‘peoples economy.’ I believe it is. If it is something that someone does not understand, then put it into action so that he can understand it. Do not give up, please. I know I am asking a difficult thing but it is truly necessary.”
- “On the other hand, I have hope of seeing you holding the banner of ‘land, housing, work (tierra, techo, trabajo). The three Ts. I thank you for that. Even in the face of such great pessimism, I still believe in the leaven, which is stronger. If you will be the leaven, things will change.”
- “However, the fruits of the economic development are not well distributed. This is an evident reality, which, if it does not change, will generate ever greater dangers. If there are not policies – good policies, rational and just policies – that reinforce Social Justice so that everyone has Land, Housing and Work, so that everyone has a just salary and their proper social rights, if we do not have this, then the logic of material and human consumerism will spread, leaving in its trail violence and desolation. Either the harmony of social justice or the violence that comes with desolation.”
- “Yes, I see something that concerns me, something that promotes a perverse way of seeing reality, a way that exalts the accumulation of wealth as if it were a virtue. I say to you: This is not a virtue, it is a vice. Richness is made to be co-divided, to create, to fraternize. To accumulate is not virtuous, it is not virtuous. To distribute, yes, this is [virtuous].”
- “It is a paradox that often the great fortunes have little to do with merit: They come from rents or were inherited; they are the fruit of the exploitation of persons and the destruction of nature; they are the product of financial speculation and tax evasion; they derive from corruption and organized crime. Generally speaking, many fortunes are accumulated in this way.”
- “The blind competition to have larger salaries is not a creative force; rather it is a bad approach, a road to perdition. It is an irresponsible, immoral and irrational behavior that destroys creation and divides the peoples. We will not stop from denouncing it.”
In 5,000 words he almost forgot to mention Jesus Christ, of whom he should be the Vicar on earth. Indeed, I only found the name of Jesus used four times, and then just in passing. Instead, in each paragraph I found strong revolutionary language employed to destroy what is left of Christian Civilization in today’s society.
Sadly, today this is what a truly progressivist Pope does…
______________________
______________________
 Volume I |
 Volume II |
 Volume III |
 Volume IV |
 Volume V |
 Volume VI |
 Volume VII |
 Volume VIII |
 Volume IX |
 Volume X |
 Volume XI |
 Special Edition |