[Peace-discuss] [sf-core] New bishop of Rome : get thee to a vomitarium

[Paul Mueth]

http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/catholicchurch_2709.jsp
Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the 'dirty war'
HORACIO VERBITSKY 27 July 2005
Subjects:	* latin america
About the author
Horacio Verbitsky is a leading Argentinean investigative journalist. He was 
given an International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect 
Journalists in 2001. Among his books is The Silence: from Paulo VI to Bergoglio, 
the secret links between the Church and the Navy Mechanics School (2005) and The 
Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior (New Press, 2005).
Argentina between 1976 and 1983 was wracked by a “dirty war” in which successive 
military regimes hunted down, tortured and “disappeared” tens of thousands of 
citizens. The process had begun when Argentina’s already febrile politics 
started to split open in the mid-1970s. The military seized power in a coup 
from Isabelita Peron’s government, in the wake of an armed insurgency 
by Montoneros guerrillas.
The dictatorship that followed consigned thousands of Argentineans into military 
detention. Most were tortured; a few were released, many were eventually 
murdered. These “disappeared” numbered in all around 30,000.


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From: C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
To: Paul Mueth <paulmueth at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [sf-core] New bishop of Rome

Pope Ratzinger's response to liberation theology was complex - as those who read 
the documents from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when he was 
head of it can see. The press has preferred a simpler narrative.
  
And those who read what he actually wrote as bishop of Rome will find a critique 
of neoliberalism and a call for the redistribution of wealth, well to the left 
of any mainstream US (and EU) politician.

E.g., from Caritas in Veritate, his major social encyclical (2009): - "The 
global market has stimulated first and foremost, on the part of rich countries, 
a search for areas in which to outsource production at low cost with a view to 
reducing the prices of many goods, increasing purchasing power and thus 
accelerating the rate of development in terms of greater availability of 
consumer goods for the domestic market. Consequently, the market has prompted 
new forms of competition between States as they seek to attract foreign 
businesses to set up production centres, by means of a variety of instruments, 
including favourable fiscal regimes and deregulation of the labour market. These 
processes have led to a downsizing of social security systems as the price to be 
paid for seeking greater competitive advantage in the global market, with 
consequent grave danger for the rights of workers, for fundamental human rights 
and for the solidarity associated with the traditional forms of the social 
State." 


Chomsky has written frequesntly of the US "war against the church," notably "... 
the murder of the Jesuit intellectuals [in November 1989]. There has been much 
debate about who deserves credit for the fall of the Berlin wall, but there is 
none about the responsibility for the brutal demolition of the attempt to revive 
the church of the Gospels [i.e., liberation theology]. Washington's School of 
the Americas, famous for its training of Latin American killers, proudly 
announced as one of its 'talking points' that liberation theology was 'defeated 
with the assistance of the US army' -- given a helping hand, to be sure by the 
Vatican, using the gentler means of expulsion and suppression" 
<http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20100323.htm>.  


--CGE

On Mar 13, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Paul Mueth <paulmueth at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Yea, RATzinger was good on discourse as well, whilst repressing liberation 
>theologians and activists, cooperating with Casey's CIA. 
>
> This pope was an opponent of LT probably all thru the dirty war. . . 
> 
> Roy Bourgeois has been excommunicated BTW
> 
> Sent from my iPhone 3GS, It doesn't chat!
> 
> On Mar 13, 2013, at 3:10 PM, "C. G. Estabrook" <carl at newsfromneptune.com> 
>wrote:
> 
>>  
>> "We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet 
>>reduced misery the least. The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a 
>>situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of 
>>a fuller life for so many of our brothers."
>> 
>> --Pope Francis - Abp. Jorge Mario Bergoglio SJ of Buenos Aires - to a gathering 
>>of Latin American bishops in 2007
>> 
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