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Showing posts with label Pope Francis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Francis. Show all posts
Monday, February 29, 2016
Friday, February 12, 2016
Pope Francis’ Confused “Complicated Past” – Some Argentine Players – The Process – Second Junta – The Dirty War – Etc.
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| Orlando Agosti, Jorge Videla and Emilio Massera, during the National Reorganization Process |
Jorge Videla -- March 1976-March 1981 President of Argentina
Roberto Viola -- March 1981-December 1981 President of Argentina
Leopoldo Galtieri -- December 1981-June 1982 President of Argentina
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| Pio Laghi and the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Juan Carlos Aramburu act kindly with the leaders of the Process, Jorge Videla, Leopoldo Galtieri, Omar Graffigna and Armando Lambruschini |
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Second Military Junta, July 1981.Cardinal Aramburu, General Viola,
General Galtieri, Brigadier Graffigna, Admiral Lambruschini |
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| Leopoldo Galtieri |
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| General Haig and General/President Galtieri discussing the upcoming consequences of going to War with Britain over the Falkland Islands. |
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| General Haig praying to his god he could talk Margaret Thatcher from going to War in the Falklands and blowing the cozy little setup in Argentina with the CIA training camps for the Contras protected by the Junta. |
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| President Galtiere and the Great Peacemaker John Paul II |
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| A young Father Bergoglio SJ, a deer caught in the headlights of Argentine history, a nobody in the scheme of things (???) 1976-1983 |
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| Freedom of Expression Restored 1983 Victims Remembered Wall of Metropolitan Cathedral
http://thisculturalchristian.blogspot.com/2013/03/pope-francis-confused-complicated-past.html
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Friday, October 30, 2015
Christianity, like Marriage, is only as Strong as its Weakest Link
Christianity,
like Marriage, is only as Strong as its Weakest Link
There is
that scene in the recent movie “Selma” with LBJ meeting with Governor George
Wallace in the Oval Office in 1965 and two Southern politicians are trying to haggle
their way out of an uncomfortable situation whereby one hundred years of Jim
Crow and racial suppression was bubbling up all over the South but in this
particular place of Alabama with protesters wanting to march across the state
to petition their state government for a redress of their grievance of wanting
to exercise their full constitutional right to vote without hindrance in that
state.
The white men
in Alabama sounding like the Roman Catholic Church on Sacred Tradition were
saying this is how it has always been and we are satisfied with it.
The black men
in Alabama no longer wanted to be on the short end of the stick, an expression,
and no longer on the end of stick being beaten or killed for asking for their
right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
At one point
Governor Wallace wants the federal government to go along with Southern Sacred
Tradition and Lyndon Johnson, wanting to establish some sort of legislative
legacy, throws the problem back at Wallace and tells him that as Governor he
can force adherence to national law at the local level at the county level
where all government is local and the local voting registrar is the real place
where the Negro was being denied his local rights.
It occurred
to me upon recent viewing of that movie for the first time, how the definition
of man and the definition of the rights of man are in essence defined and or
redefined according to the local prejudice and flavors of the month, years and
century.
Which also
brings this slightly aged person, with memories of the sixties, to look at
County Clerk Kim Davis of Rowan County Kentucky and her singular obsession with
the biblical definition of “marriage” and her hearing and obeying her “god” and
his direct command to her to enforce “his” definition of whatever marriage is.
Before
marriage, I told a friend that I thought of marriage as a merger and or
alliance between two people. He having been married more than once listened to
my definition and or preconceived idea of marriage and laughed. He told me that
at best marriage is a truce between two people on the front line of the war
between the sexes and the unique qualities, attributes and assets of those
eternally warring factions, and their ongoing hit or miss contributions in the
way of offspring to the common good and millennial old haphazard survival of the species.
Some weird
Baptist cult, famous for their hatred of gays, has set up protesting with signs
shop within hearing distance of three times divorced County Clerk, living in a
glass house Kim Davis, and throwing stones at da gays who wish to be in legal
union and or marriage with each other.
The traditional definition of marriage
via filtering of the RC sacred traditions that make up their ritual plagued
religion, and the basis of most modern Christianity, had Jesus, a single man
going to a wedding with his mom, and getting drunk. No engagement to a female,
no bridal registries, no speaking of vows.
Of course that is not the way they
tell the stained glass story on the wall
of the cathedral but that is the bottom line – the stained glass sacred
tradition story. Marriage in the RC tradition / “Christian” POV would appear to
be whatever sacred tradition says “it” is - just like - the way “it” has always
been for the white man in the South - the majority opinion in the church so to
speak is the definition of what sexual union and or sexual truce is within the
confines of a legal union and or marriage – and must be between a legal aged
male and female of the species.
Minority
opinions do not count.
Kim Davis
with her three divorces is technically according to the sparse and or spaced
all over the place in the Greek Testament phrasings – she is an adulterer and
her many other marriages are not the one true union of marriage that Jesus
supposedly defined once upon a time in a distant galaxy in a time far, far away
from the real here and now.
Kim is a “whore”
living in sin and the good people of the Westboro Baptist “Christian” cult
don’t think that Kim is the right spokesperson to diss and deny gay people
their civil rights. (Strange turn of events and or rhetoric?)
Christianity and
its thousands of sects and cults is after all only as strong and its weakest
link and or links as in the Kim Davis variety or the Westboro inbred Christer
crazies.
The
Pedophile Union Lobby that runs the Vatican has after fifty years post-Vatican
had a Synod recently and after fifty years since Vatican II of shitting on the divorced of their
church, they are reaching out for contributions or contributions disguised as
an invitation to return to the Church and get a mean spirited right to their
sacraments - take or leave it losers - or btw go to hell.
This as the pews remain empty and perhaps a few divorced catholics
who have not already joined the Lutherans or the Anglicans or other main stream
Protestant churches that accept in a complex world, the complex reasons why
marriages fail, why there is divorce and why everybody deserves a second chance
to make a more perfect union with a spouse and of course with or without children
involved.
I am
reminded of the author Anne Rice who went back briefly to the RC church and
left after a few months later pulling her hair and screaming something to the
effect that the nostalgic home of the church she remembered from childhood was
replaced by the biased boilerplate preaching of the meal tickets clerics defending
celibacy in all its toxic forms including the Sacred Tradition of Omerta surrounding regarding pedophilia, of that particular business, sect,
cult.
Good luck to
any divorced people lucky enough to find a comfortable roost in the same old
medieval RC church thing btw.
The Vatican
Synod on the “Family” btw forgot about all the gays. Divorced Catholics first on the tour. Maybe
in another hundred years, the gays?
Pope
Francis, who is a great PR guy, having not only survived some of the darkest
fascist days of Argentina history but prospered as well despite that history,
is trying to I think to highlight a lot of piles, mountains of sacred tradition
in the RC church (with a possible need to change, tweek things a bit here and there?) before he goes to his eternal reward and is no doubt happier
stirring up the pot in Rome rather than in Buenos Aires. Wink, nod.
Which brings
us to the people of this world, the Kim Davis county clerks, or the cookie
cutter RC priests, or the perfect cult people of the Westboro Baptist Congregation
publicity seeking church playing with themselves and defining marriage any
which way but loose.
Marriage is
in the words of the definer?
Which goes
back to my tongue in cheek but probably no so far from the truth article about
a stoned Jesus as a gay wedding. A long
standing 2,000 year old coded message from da bible? Again – Wink, Nod.
Good thing I
am mostly cultured and not christianed these days?
Whatever.
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Friday, October 2, 2015
Kim Davis is a pawn in a nasty game - getting passed around the right wing redneck Christian circuit like a cheap Whore – And She is loving every minute of IT!
Kim Davis is a pawn in a nasty game - getting passed around the right wing redneck Christian circuit like a cheap Whore – And She is loving every minute of IT!
Retired Pope Emeritus Benedict Stabs Francis in Back at DC ? –
Retired Pope Emeritus Benedict Stabs Francis in Back at DC ? –
According to the first person, there
were a great number of people during the pope's tour who were simply hustled in
and out for informal private audiences. According to Dionne, the meeting
between Davis and the pope was brokered by Archbishop Carlo Vigano, the papal
nuncio to the United States at whose residence the pope stayed during his time
in Washington, which is when the meeting took place. Together, these facts set
off my Spidey Sense about Vatican chicanery.
Before we continue, let us stipulate
a few things. First of all, let us stipulate that there are more than a few
members of the Church's permanent bureaucracy, both within the Clan Of The Red
Beanie and without, who are not happy that this gentleman got elected Pope, and
who are not happy with what he's done and said since he was. Second, let us
stipulate that many members of this group are loyal to both former pope Josef
Ratzinger and, through him, to the memory (and to what they perceive as the
legacy) of John Paul II who, for good and ill, had a much different idea of how
to wield a papacy than Papa Francesco does. Third, let us stipulate that this
opposition to the current pope has been active and vocal, to say nothing of
paranoid.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Pope Francis’ Confused “Complicated Past” – Some Argentine Players – The Process – Second Junta – The Dirty War – Etc.
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| Orlando Agosti, Jorge Videla and Emilio Massera, during the National Reorganization Process |
Jorge Videla -- March 1976-March 1981 President of Argentina
Roberto Viola -- March 1981-December 1981 President of Argentina
Leopoldo Galtieri -- December 1981-June 1982 President of Argentina
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| Pio Laghi (Papal Nuncio Argentina/United States) and the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Juan Carlos Aramburu act kindly with the leaders of the Process, Jorge Videla, Leopoldo Galtieri, Omar Graffigna and Armando Lambruschini |
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Second Military Junta, July 1981.Cardinal Aramburu, General Viola,
General Galtieri, Brigadier Graffigna, Admiral Lambruschini |
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| Leopoldo Galtieri |
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| General Haig and General/President Galtieri discussing the upcoming consequences of going to War with Britain over the Falkland Islands. |
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| General Haig praying to his god he could talk Margaret Thatcher from going to War in the Falklands and blowing the cozy little setup in Argentina with the CIA training camps for the Contras protected by the Junta. |
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| President Galtiere and the Great Peacemaker John Paul II |
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| A young Father Bergoglio SJ, a deer caught in the headlights of Argentine history, a nobody in the scheme of things (?) 1976-1983 |
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| Freedom of Expression Restored 1983 Victims Remembered Wall of Metropolitan Cathedral |
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The Pope Hangover in Philly
The Pope
Hangover in Philly
On a local
Philly forum I follow there had been a lot of anxiety of Philly in turmoil over
a once in a generation happening centered around the local Archdiocese and it
World Family Conference – selling the definition of marriage and staking out
moral authority over it in the hopes of charging eternal royalties, added to
the company coffers, not unlike the Disney people forever repackaging Mickey
Mouse as something completely new and unique to each new generation etc.
The anxiety
in many was that for all practical purposes, this private religious group, the
Roman Catholics, had declared temporary eminent domain of a large portion of
downtown Philadelphia for the purpose of a street fair and or religious ritual.
The Franklin Parkway is the one beautiful planned section of downtown leading
from the Second Empire city hall, larger than the U.S. Capitol building btw,
cut on a diagonal to the northwest to any old plateau that once served as the
city’s main reservoir and now has the ornate Greek style art museum built on
top of that old hill. The hill of course is the reason for dozens of steps in
front and immortalized in cinema by the movie Rocky.
The
archdiocese no doubt wanted the Parkway with its many museums and classical style
public buildings along its classical ala Paris style dimensions of a grand
boulevard to tart up the centuries old rituals that fit in with the modern
Vatican marketing program to present a pope in the rockstar, large ground,
grand doobie concert settings for the marketing and sale of the product.
The locals
with their houses and condos were trapped in a no drive zone that the invading
archbishop from Denver had staked out to tart up his reputation and eternal
campaign for the red hat.
Daily bulletins
from the local authorities with varying levels of local, state and federal levels
of authority made it very confusing how one would or could function in the
middle of a commandeered concert site/zone.
I have seen
literally dozens of the latest maps in recent weeks showing the latest no man’s
land without a pass land surrounding these people’s homes and private live – “Private
lives matter”. That and the threat of having your automobile temporarily confiscated
and towed if parked in the wrong zone. That and a fee for a retrieval of your
car from some improvised car impound lot anywhere in the city on the docks
being shipped to Saudi Arabia care of the local mob.
Many simply
wanted to escape if they could and go out of the city to avoid the tourist mess
with the Pope Show. That with a secondary thought that your home might be robbed
in your absence, that in an area protecting the Pope Show and not anybody’s
local property per say.
One comment
on the disaster of the mismanaged twisted mess of the local South-East
Pennsylvania Transportation Authority S.E.P.T.A. during the Pope’s visit to the
city.
According to my Septa conductor friend, he says the whole
pope weekend was horrible.
To quote him: "tons of lack-of-communication, foul-ups, and bitching
over who had to do what jobs... a real nuthouse of dumb Septa officials!"
And there
was the question of who was going to pay for all the extra security associated
with a public event with an international head of state present. New York and Washington are used to these big
state events with the Federal Government in DC and the United Nations in New
York. Philly is just in so many ways since the opening of the Erie Canal – an east
coast city with no discernible mission statement or purpose.
For many
months of negotiations with the city, the corporation responsible for the World
Family conference and its bills, the figure was something like 45 million
dollars. Reading the forum over time, this figure kept floating in the air as
the event approached. One interesting thing
was that the World Family conference had a grace period of six months following
the event to reimburse the city for expenses of their temporary occupation of
downtown Philly.
The final figure the RCs jewed the city down to was $12
million dollars now that it had become an international and partially state
event and the state and federal government, via the FBI and Secret Service was
picking up a hefty piece of the real costs of having Pope Francis give his
marketing performance on the Parkway.
Nothing in the forum if the AD was going to reimburse the
state of Pennsylvania or the Feds. I somehow doubt it. And since this private
tax free religion club has no fiscal accountability I can only guess where the rest
of the 45 million after the 12 million deduction for expense went, as it was
supposedly already pledged by private and corporate donations to the event. (Let’s
close another local parish says the out of town Archbishop from Denver via one
of his infamous “blue ribbon commissions” handling this or that real estate
detail in the AD’s portfolio.)
Because of
all the shutting down of this public service train lines, bus lines, bridge
access for security reasons etc. is why the final crowd of the Pope’s public
mass was closer to half a million to six hundred thousand instead of the
original estimated one million crowd.
Of course,
it was the post 911 security blanket as to why Francis did not shine like a
saint like John Paul II and his past performance in Philly. It was not that
religion in this Millennial driven tech world is hard pressed to compete in the
entertainment and spirituality market with the young and not so gullible.
All this
haggling over money for a Pope Show goes back to 1979 when the fascist I-talian
A-merican mayor Frank Rizzo, the former racist police overseer chief, who built
a public platform over the Logan Circle Fountain on the Parkway at city expense
for JPII’s mass, and was challenged in the courts for doing so – separation of
church and state and all that – and eventually the Archdiocese was forced to reimburse
the city something like $300,000 for wood and labor.
The price of extra
security from the city, state and Feds for that 1979 SuperStar event never got
addressed etc.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Pope Francis Whiting The Sepulchers at Vatican Climate Change Summit?
Pope Francis’s DirtyWar Dealings
"I’m not so sure Bergoglio was chosen to cover up the church’s current rot—the Vatican Bank’s transparency problem, the pedophile priests who’ve been exposed across the globe. It wouldn’t surprise me if, instead, Bergoglio launched a moral crusade to white the apostolic sepulchers." ~~~ By Horacio Verbitsky | 15 March 2013 The Daily Beast
Looking at the News Feed and a Summit of Climate Control at the Vatican, I ran into these words today and made a mental connection of sorts.
That Franics is master of the Twitter age sound bite just like Donald Trump. A lot of the rest of us are still listening in 1985 Reaganesque-ese Teflon radio-age communication.
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