Episcopal successor of Pope accused of covering up for priests accused of trafficking children

In 2009, a group of victims asked for the investigation of Bishop Mario Aurelio Poli for "covering up" crimes of trafficking, reduced to servitude and fraud in connection with an event that affected at least 64 children and young people. In August of 2009, a group of victims asked the Instructional Court 3 in Santa Rosa to prosecute the Spanish priests Antonio Martínez and Ricardo Latorre. At the same time, it called for the summoning of two bishops to make depositions in the context of a case in which were investigated, among others, the crimes of human trafficking, fraud, extortion and reduced to servitude in a religious institute called Servi Trinitatis.

It was a story that hit the front pages of almost all daily newspapers in Argentina by the rawness of the story of those who passed through the Institute. Everyone talks about psychologicval and physical abuse: "I have suffered humiliation, yelling and hitting," said, for instance, Sergio Juarez in 2009. The Servi Trinitatis complaint was made by the lawyer from the pampas, Omar Gebruers , who said publicly what nobody was ready to listen: 64 children and young people were "enslaved and 17 subjected to the crime of human trafficking." Both of the main accused were priests Antonio Martínez and Ricardo Latorre, officiating in those days in the Cathedral in Santa Rosa and the Trinitatis Servi Secular Institute, where, again according to the very serious accusation, numerous crimes were said to have been committed.

 And there appears an unpleasant surprise: Besides making allegations against the two priests, the lawsuit representing victims called for a probe of alleged " cover-up" by Mario Aurelio Poli, blessed by the hand of Pope Francis as his successor in the archbishopric of Buenos Aires. But there is more: in 2006, before the criminal complaint, a group of girls who were interned in the Cenacle in Santa Rosa sent a letter to the then Bishop Miguel Brédiceand his boss, then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio. According to these girls , they were never met and had only sensed "total inaction or cover-up ...". Finally ... although the priests Latorre and Martinez were eventually dismissed, suspicion never faded and complainants never failed to mention that it is an "international criminal organization" that works to attract young people and keep their goods and money .

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Full text- Papacy-winning speech of Cardinal Bergoglio

Hours before his election, Cardinal Bergoglio, now Pope Francis made ​​a strong criticism of the Church and urged his fellow cardinals to wake up and work with the Gospel in the geographical peripheries as well as the existential peripheries pain, sin and ignorance .

Cardinal Jaime Ortega, archbishop of Havana, revealed the contents of a document containing the intervention delivered by his counterpart Jorge Bergoglio, before being elected Pontiff.

Ortega released the text Bergoglio gave him in handwritten form of his presentation made before the conclave in which the cardinals then elected him Pope.

Bergoglio was elected on 13/3 by the Cardinal electors, among whom was Ortega.

"Cardinal Bergoglio made ​​a speech that seemed masterful, insightful, engaging and certain", said Ortega for whom the document expresses the personal view of the present Church of Pope Francis.

The Cuban cardinal revelations only came to light during last Saturday's Mass at the Cathedral of Havana and were reported Tuesday by the magazine Palabra Nueva, mouthpiece of the Archdiocese of Havana, reports the Miami-based Cuban site MartíNoticias.com.

The Palabra Nueva site was inaccessible.

According to the document, Bergoglio's paper is based on four highlighted points about the religious institution and could point the way which the new Pope will now take.

On the first point on evangelization, Bergoglio said "the Church take leave of itself and go to the peripheries" but not just in the geographical sense "but also the existential sense, manifested in the mystery of sin, pain, injustice and ignorance , among others, " said Ortega.

The second section characterized the institution as a "self-referential" church and self-centered in a kind of "theological narcissism".

In point three Bergoglio criticized "the worldly Church living in itself, of itself, for itself." According to Ortega, the idea of the Pope is that the institution must find a balance in "the changes and reforms that have to be undertaken".

The point 4 reported by Ortega indicates that the Pope, not knowing that he would be elected, said he expected a top pastor of the Church of Rome "a man who, from the contemplation of Jesus Christ ... helps the Church to emerge from itself to arrive at the existential limits ".

According Palabra Nueva, the Archbishop of Havana asked the the Cardinal Bergoglio asked for a copy of his speech at the General Congregation of cardinals prior to the conclave, to preserve that which "coincided" with his thoughts on the Church.

The then Cardinal Primate of Argentina refused to let hgim have a copy of his words but the next day gave Ortega the written text in his handwriting and authorized its dissemination.

The Palabra Nueva website states that in a subsequent meeting in the Vatican between the Cuban Cardinal and the newly elected Pope Francis he "reaffirmed his authorization for the dissemination of the text, the original of which (...) Ortega judges as a special treasure of the Church and a privileged memory of the current Pope ".

The full text:

Reference was made to the evangelization. It is the reason for the Church.

- "The sweet and comforting joy of evangelizing" (Paul VI). - It is the same Jesus Christ who, from within, drives us. 1.

Evangelizing supposes apostolic zeal. Evangelize implies that the Church should speak candidly, coming out of herself. The Church is called to come out of herself and to go to the peripheries, not only in the geographical sense but also to go to the existential peripheries: those of the mystery of sin, of pain, of injustice, of ignorance and of religious indifference, of thought, of all misery.

2. When the Church does not come out of itself to evangelize, it becomes self-referential and then get sick (cf. the woman hunched over the Gospel). The evils that, over time, occur in t ecclesiastical institutions have roots of referentiality, a sort of theological narcissism. In Revelation Jesus says he is at the door and knocks. Obviously the text refers to hitting from outside the door to enter ... But think of the times when Jesus knocks from within to let himself out. The self-referential Church seeks Jesus Christ within and does not let him out.

3. - When the Church is self-referential, unwittingly believed to have its own light, no longer the mysterium lunae and leads to the evil that is so serious spiritual worldliness (According to de Lubac, the worst evil that can befall the Church). That live to give glory from one another. The Church, when it is self-referential, without realizing it, believes it has a light of its own; it ceases to be the mysterium lunae (for an explanation of this phrase) and gives rise to this evil that is so serious that of spiritual wordliness (according to De Lubac, the worst evil that can occur to the Church). It lives for the glory to be given to each other Put simply, there are two images of Church: the evangelizing Church taking leave of itself which religiuously hears the Word of God and faithfully proclaims it (Dei Verbum religiose audiens et fidenter proclamans)or the worldly Church living in itself, of itself, for itself. This should shed light on the possible changes and reforms that must be done for the salvation of souls.

4. - Thinking about the next pope: a man who, from the contemplation of Jesus Christ and from worshiping Jesus Christ helps the Church out of itself to the outskirts of the existential, that helps Her to be a fruitful Mother, living "the delightful and comforting joy of evangelizing. "

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Communists desecrate Cathedral in Buenos Aires

A few hours before the election of a new Pope, revolutionary activists broke into the Cathedral of Buenos Aires, thus preventing the celebration of the Mass.

About 200 ultra-leftist demonstrators with red flags, entered the Cathedral in Buenos Aires. It was not yet known that the Cardinal Bergoglio was to be elected Pope.

The occupation of the Church began in the morning and lasted for five hours. It was impossible to celebrate Mass for the intention of the conclave, which six Argentine bishops concelebrated. Leftists of the "People's Movement for Dignity" came with drums and food, demanding that all government subsidies should flow only to secular state schools, not to the Catholic institutions that receive half of them.

Demonstrators hung a banner at the entrance to the temple. One of leftists gathered reporters together abd explained that it was decided to stop the Mass "because the door was open, so we walked in, because this is an open public space, and hung posters inside and outside the church."




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"Never has the seminary of Buenos Aires had as few seminarians as today."

Cardinal Bergoglio wishes to be a poor man among the poor. He cultivates a militant humility, but can prove humiliating for the Church. His appearance in the loggia of St. Peter’s in a simple cassock without his rochet and mozzetta is a perfect illustration. He is a fine politician… And idealistic apostle of the poverty of the 70’s, he is completely turned towards the people, the poor, but without being a disciple of the theology of liberation.

Very conscious of the dilapidated state of his clergy, he did nothing to fix things. Never has the seminary of Buenos Aires had as few seminarians as today. It is a disaster, as have been the liturgies presided over by the “Cardinal of the Poor.” With him, we risk to see once again the masses of Paul VI’s pontificate, a far cry from Benedict XVI’s efforts to restore to their honor the worthy liturgical ceremonies.

He was firmly opposed to abortion. But while he wrote a beautiful letter to the Carmelites of Buenos Aires against the homosexual “marriage” bill – which was unfortunately voted through in the end – he had a regrettable discourse read during the protest against this bill, in which the name of Our Lord was not pronounced even once, while the Evangelistic pastor who spoke before him to excite the crowd delivered a more courageous discourse…(see DICI #219, July 24, 2010).

During an ecumenical meeting, he knelt to receive the blessing of two pastors.

He is a man of consensus, who hates confrontations. He kept his distance from the Catholics who denounced the blasphemous expositions that were held in Buenos Aires.

I have met him 5 or 6 times and he has always received me with benevolence, seeking to grant me what I wished, without going out of his way to overcome obstacles….

Superior of the SSPX for South America.

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Cathcon- not a good sign, bishops who cannot revive their seminaries begin to talk about greater lay involvement, creating a pseudo-clerical elite.  

Pope Francis snubs Cardinal Law

The first days of his papacy to Pope Francis, the archbishop of Buenos Aires elected Pope with the white smoke on Wednesday evening began with a visit to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

And here that Pope Francis, after meeting Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, retired ordered him to be removed. The Cardinal was accused of covering up for the pedophile priests in his diocese.

"I will not frequent this church," he said Papa Francesco. The Vatican spokesman sought to play down the incident.

According to reports from Fata Quottidiano , Cardinal Law wanted to meet the new Pontiff. But he did not like to do so. Papa Francis is now planning to move the Cardinal involved in the pedophilia scandal, pushing him into a monastery, as originally wanted by the Vatican, which, however, never materialized.

"Cardinal Law was present in a discrete manner in the chapel along with the members of the chapter and confessors, having been until recently the Dean of St. Maria Maggiore. Then he returned to his home. Nothing to add. " Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, told Adnkronos in response to journalistic speculation whereby yesterday Pope Francis during his visit to the Basilica of St. Maria Maggiore in Rome, told Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, to keep away from the Basilica.

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Cathcon- whether or not the Pope said anything, the message is clear. A monastery walls will enclose Cardinal Law

Statement by Jesuit priest tortured under the Junta on the role of the Pope

Statement of Father Franz Jalics SJ

Since 1957, I lived in Buenos Aires. In 1974, moved by the inner desire to live the Gospel and raise awareness about the terrible poverty, and with the permission of Archbishop Aramburu and the then Provincial Fr Jorge Mario Bergoglio I moved with a fellow Jesuit into a "favela", a city slum. From there we continued our teaching at the University.

In the then existing civil war-like situation, the  military junta in one to two years, killed approximately 30,000 people, left-wing guerrillas, as well as innocent civilians. We two in the slums had neither contact with the junta or the guerillas.   Through lack of information as well as deliberate misinformation, however, our position within the church was also misleading. At that time, we lost touch with one of our lay collaborators, as the person had joined the guerrillas. After nine months later,  he was captured by the soldiers of the Junta and interrogated and they found out that he was associated with us. On the assumption that we are dealing with the guerrillas, we were arrested. After a five-day interrogation of both of us,  the officer who conducted the questioning, released us with these words: "Fathers, you were not to blame. I will make sure that you can go back to the slums. " Despite this commitment,  we were then, for some inexplicable reason kept blindfolded and handcuffed in custody for five months. I cannot comment on the role in these processes in P. Bergoglio

After our liberation, I left Argentina. Only years later we had the opportunity to meet  Father Bergoglio who had meanwhile been appointed Archbishop of Buenos Aires, to discuss the events. Then we have celebrated Mass publicly and we hugged solemnly. I am reconciled to the events and consider it in my turn to be a closed matter.

I wish Pope Francis God's blessings for his office.

P. Franz Jalics SJ
15th March 2013

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Pope Francis DID approve a Latin Mass Centre

Extract from Dr Robert Moynihan's blog

Here below is one of several sources for my statement regarding Cardinal Bergoglio’s attitude toward the old Mass. It says, in Spanish, that the new Pope was a “sworn enemy” of the traditional Mass and that he took action against priests who expressed interest in Summorum Pontificum. I deduced from this that Cardinal Bergoglio has been “hostile” to the old Mass, and wrote that. Here is the quote in Spanish, and the link to the source:

“Enemigo jurado de la misa tradicional, no ha permitido sino parodias en manos de enemigos declarados de la liturgia antigua. Ha perseguido a todo sacerdote que se empeñó en usar sotana, predicar con solidez o que se haya interesado en la Summorum Pontificum.”

However, I have since received a large number of other emails containing very different information. Here is one from a respected Catholic philosopher and writer whom I trust a great deal:

Dear Robert,
I read with passionate interest all the reports you sent us since Benedict XVI (to my deep regret) stepped down. I thank you for them; they were remarkably well done, informative and expressing your love for the Church.

But I was deeply grieved today in reading that you write that Francis I is hostile to the Tridentine Mass. This must be a terrible misinformation likely to do a lot of harm to many of your readers.

Archbishop Bergoglio, upon receiving the information that Benedictine XVI (at my repeated requests) had granted a universal indult, designated the Church Michel Angelo as the one place where the traditional Mass would be said. Its pastor, Padre Ricardo Dotro (I might get the name wrong) a well-trained liturgist, was going to say it to those who wished it. It was well-attended; hundred of people with their old missals, even some younger people, ladies wearing Mantillas, and modestly dressed, six candles on the altar, Mass ad orientem, kneeling for communion on the tongue.

I fear you were misinformed. Because the Mass had not been said for 40 years, all the younger priests could not say it. This was well-calculated; if no one can say that mass, that it certain to bury it. But it survived.

I wish you would correct this. Many of your devoted readers will be, like me, deeply grieved, unless you do. In the joy of Habemus papam and thanking you for your great work, I am, dear Robert, yours in caritate Christi.
(end of letter)
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And, even more, I agree with what one reader writes: “Unlike Pope Benedict, I would not be at all surprised to see Pope Francis publicly offer a traditional Latin Mass some day. He has a deep devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, is said to practice the Five First Saturday Devotions, and prays 15 decades of the Rosary each day. I believe that, after he meets with Pope Emeritus Benedict, reads the 300-page dossier on the Vatileaks scandal, and reads the rest of the Third Secret of Fatima, he will be a different man than he was as archbishop, then cardinal, in Argentina.”

Full story- all good news about Pope Francis.


As he says
"We can walk as much as we wish, we can build many things, but if we do not confess Jesus Christ, it is no good. We will become a humanitarian NGO, but not the Church, bride of the Lord."

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“He who does not pray to the Lord prays to the devil.” - a quote from Leon Bloy

Links of Pope Francis to military dictatorship

Jorge Mario Bergoglio's election as Pope has already triggered fierce debate about his past. Was Francis a helper of the Argentine military regime? No, says a Nobel Peace Prize. And rather that he was affirm the surviving relatives of a torture victim.

Speechlessness followed the cheers: With a simple "Buonasera" the new Pope Francis welcomed his flock in Rome - and made a joke about his origin "at the end of the world" . A rhetorical hit that was highly appreciated at the crowd. Even in his native Argentina enthusiasm and a party atmosphere prevailed. However, not among all.

"I can not believe it. I am so sad and so full of rage that I do not know what to do", the sister of the deceased priest and torture victim Orlando Yorio wrote in an email to the journalist Horacio Verbitsky. "Now he has achieved what he wanted."

"He", is for Graciela Yorio the power-hungry man who betrayed her brother and the Hungarian Jesuit Franz Jalics to the military regime- who did not prevent the two clerics from being imprisoned for five months in prison and tortured. "He", now Pope Francis, was still Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Jesuit Provincial of the Argentine.

The two liberation theologians were kidnapped on 23 May in 1976 in a slum where they undertook mission and social work. "Many people who were associated with the political far right saw our presence in the slums with suspicion," Father Jalics later recalled in his memoirs. "They interpreted the fact that we lived there as support for the guerrillas and denounced us as terrorists."

The henchmen of the regime dragged the two Jesuits into the dreaded torture prison Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada (Esma). After five months of detention, they were stripped half-naked and exposed, pumped full of drugs in a field. The priests complained to the Roman Father General Pedro Arrupe about Bergoglio. They had already been expelled from the Jesuit order - allegedly because contacts with women and "obedience conflicts".

For the victims, there was no doubt: Bergoglio had knowingly left them to the death squads. The Jesuit leaders rejected the accusations, rather he had acted behind the scenes to free Yorio and Jalics. In his autobiography, "The Jesuit" from the year 2010, he writes: "I have done what I could to stand up for the hostages, with the age, that I had reached, and the few contacts that I could count on."

Jalics "at peace" with Bergoglio
Human rights lawyer Marcello Parilli reported in April 2005 about the alleged involvement in the kidnapping - just before the conclave in which Bergoglio obtain the second highest number of votes, but withdrew in favor of Ratzinger. A Jesuit spokesman said the report at that time was a "slander". Bergoglio his right not to testify in court twice. When he testified in 2010, his comments were said to be "evasive" by human rights lawyer Myriam Bregman. In 2012 a collective apology for transgressions of the Argentine bishops of the Church in the seventies followed - about 30 years too late.

Yorio never fully recovered from the traumatic experiences in prison. He died in 2000 in Uruguay (Cathcon- blaming Bergoglio for what happened until the day he died, according to other reports). Franz Jalics survived the hard times under torture only with the help of meditation and permanent prayer. He went to Germany in 1978, later writing a book on contemplative retreats. He did not wish to comment to SPIEGEL ONLINE. "He is at peace with Bergoglio" said Jesuit spokesman Thomas Busch. "Some years ago Father Jalics by invitation of the Archbishop went to Buenos Aires, where they talked things over." Nothing is known about the content of the interview.

In Jalics' book from 1995 the reality sounds rather different: leading up to the kidnapping, he described to a Superior the precarious situation and stated that "he (Cathcon- the Superior) is playing with our lives." The "man" promised to inform the military that they were not terrorists. Dozens of documents and the testimony of a witness prove, however, that the same "man" did not defend them, but further denounced them. The same his fellow sufferer Yorio had reported late seventies - but he then had cited the name: Bergoglio.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel sprang to the defence of the embattled new Pope on Thursday : "Bergoglio was not an accomplice of the dictatorship," he told, "BBC Mundo". He did not put in question that the church has been silent during the military dictatorship, and it "had provided many bishops who were passive." In Argentina, the military government from 1976 to 1983 led a bloody war against opponents of the regime. The number of desaparecidos, the disappeared is estimated to be 30000. They were kidnapped, tortured and murdered.

The Argentine investigative journalist Horacio Verbitsky - nicknamed "the dog" - has written numerous essays and books on the fateful combination of Catholic church and military dictatorship. He published in 2010 an interview with Yorios sister and brother, Graciela and Rodolfo.

According to them, Bergoglio said in an personal discussion that he put the resolving of the problem fully on the intelligence officers of the army. They would conduct interviews with detainees. Bergoglio had important connections - allegedly he met with Admiral Emilio Massera, a leading member of the junta. The subject explained that he wished to support the clergy discreetly at these meetings. He had nothing to hide.
"I know people he has helped," said Rodolfo, Yorios brother: "That reveals his two faces and its proximity to the military power. He is a master of ambiguity." The bitter reproach: "If the army killed someone, he let it happen, when they rescued him, he was the one who saved him." Therefore, there are people who think he is a saint. "And others are afraid of him."

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Cathcon- a comparison with the entirely unjust allegations against Pope Benedict of being a Nazi is called for. Suspect much more information will start appearing about these and other cases.  If it is proved he actually handed over names, we are looking at a second Papal resignation this year. It was said at the time of the Williamson affair that someone should have googled him in the Vatican- it seems that no-one googled Bergoglio or he would not have been elected on the precautionary principle that this might end being a great scandal

Bergoglio's calls for national reconciliation have been seen as an obstacle to the proper investigation of the cases of the 30,000 disappeared. Was this done for the benefit of the Church and the nation, or himself personally?

Liturgical beauty already gone from Papal Mass

Modern vestments and the people's altar returns to the Sistine Chapel. The Pope talks about love but truth and beauty are also transcendentals. The three are inseparable.

Pope's hardness of heart towards the Latin Mass

Wow, people who know nothing of the Argentine situation suddenly know a lot. It really is not enough to know what dulce de leche is or that it is the land of the tango to be aware of what goes on in Buenos Aires. And some are spreading disinformation about a diocese they do not even know! Unbelievable. But let us go back to facts not from gringos but from our porteño correspondents who know, live and suffer them.

First, we never said that Summorum had not been applied anywhere in Argentina. Cardinal Bergoglio was not the only Bishop of the whole of Argentina, but the Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Naturally, his powers were limited to the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, which is territorially very small, limited to the area of the Federal Capital itself*** - and, even then, not in the churches of the Military Ordinariate, as in all countries. So what happened there that prompted us to say that the application of Summorum in that archdiocese was "non-existent" and Marcelo González to speak that, "a sworn enemy of the Traditional Mass, he has only allowed imitations of it in the hands of declared enemies of the ancient liturgy"?

Ah, say the Google-searchers whose only experience of Argentina was watching Evita in one of their Broadway trips, he "allowed" a Summorum mass immediately after it went into effect: there it is, in this Clarín report - sent by many readers and posted by many... Well, under Summorum, a bishop does not "allow" or "implement" anything - that was the Ecclesia Dei regimen. Naturally, under Ecclesia Dei, nothing was "allowed" in Buenos Aires, even though Argentina has the largest traditional Catholic community in South America. Anyway, under Summorum, a place was designated by the Archdiocese in the church of San Miguel Arcángel.

Quite a relief, right? As a matter of fact, that was just the beginning of the problems.

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Cathcon- we must hope and pray that the Pope does not pursue these policies globally, as they will shipwreck the Barque of Peter, not just in Europe but beyond.

He can be said to be a Marian Pope, but it will avail nothing if he does not anchor the Church to the Eucharist on the other side as seen in Don Bosco's Dream

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Subject of Pope's unfinished doctoral thesis

The young Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio came to Germany in the eighties to work on his thesis. In fact, the Argentine Pope still has old friends.

As a Catholic from Germany these days you're already satisfied with little. Until recently, we were finally Pope - now satisfaction is made up again in that while the newly elected pontiff indeed comes from Argentina, he still has a close relationship to Germany.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio has even lived for a time in Germany. In 1985, the then-Father journeyed from Argentina to study, he did not land on one of the great theological faculties - but at the quietly contemplative philosophy and theology Sankt Georgen Graduate School . 368 students are enrolled in the winter semester 2012/2013.

They are pleased about the choice of Bergoglio as the head of the Catholic Church, it was announced in the morning after the election of a Pope on the website of the private university operated by the Jesuits in Frankfurt. They are particularly connected with Francis, "because when he studied in Germany during the mid-eighties he spent a few months in Sankt Georgen, to consult with individual professors about a possible dissertation topic." It did not then unfortunately come to conclusion. And Bergoglio had not studied fulltime in Sankt Georgen also adds as a spokeswoman.

One who was here in 1985, is Michael Sievernich. The Honorary Professor of Pastoral Theology remembers well his time with the Argentinian who he had met earlier during a visit to South America. At Sankt Georgen, Sievernich says Bergoglio was interested in the figure of the Catholic theologian Romano Guardini - about him he wanted to write his dissertation. And Saint Georgen was to the right place: In the library of the Frankfurt academy, according to Sievernich was a particularly large literature on the Munich religious philosopher who died in 1968.

"Early on the road"


"At that time I had several meetings with Bergoglio and to know him as a very open-minded people," says Sievernich. "I had just become a professor and talked with him on matters of substance." Does the Pope then actually speak German? "He really does," says Sievernich. "But then we had a chat in Spanish." And not just about theology, adds the professor. "We're both members of the same order," he says. "So there are also personal issues."

Wendelin Köster, the former rector of the seminary, recalls Bergoglio's stay in Sankt Georgen.

Today's college rector told the "Bayerischer Rundfunk" that the future Pope had then lived in one of the rooms of the university. He was also determined to "travel around the area". Francis still retains and cherishes "sympathy for Germany."

His former companion, Sievernich does not know why Father Bergoglio had not completed his dissertation at the University of Frankfurt. The two Jesuits have lost with each other over the years: "It's all water under the bridge now," he says.

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Pope saying Mass in Germany

Moscow Patriarch lays down conditions for meeting with the Pope

The foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion has, after the papal election subdued hopes for an early encounter between Pope Francis  and Moscow Patriarch Kirill I..

"In my opinion, such a meeting is possible, but the time and place mainly depend on how fast we can solve the conflicts dating from the 80s and 90s ," Hilarion said Thursday on the German Catholic news agency KNA, who cited Russian media reports. The problems set back the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue a long way.

The Metropolitan also stressed that the elected Pope, Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio had  "spiritual affection" for the Orthodox Church and declared more than once the desire for closer contact. The Russian Orthodox Church hope that both churches further expand their relationships as "allies".

The Secretary General of the Russian Catholic Bishops' Conference , Igor Kowalewski said, according to the Interfax news agency that it was too early to talk about a visit by the Pope to Russia. The Catholic Church in this vast country is very small and only counts four bishops. A meeting of the Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow will likely be held in a place other than Rome or the Russian capital.

As the main obstacle for an historic first-time meeting of the heads of the Russian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church, the Moscow Patriarchate has repeatedly cited the controversy over religious buildings in the Western Ukraine. The Russian Orthodox Church accuses the Greek Catholic Church in communion with Rome, of having seized in the early 1990s after worship was permitted again  hundreds of places of worship. The Uniates reject this, they were only gettibg back the churches, which had been taken from them in 1946 in the forced merger with the Orthodox Church.

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We have a Marian Pope

Much is written and what is true about the community life of the priest. But this Marian point is in the center, is the heart that brings together all aspects of the community.

Getting Mary into his home in the depths of his life, the priest-disciple, the image of the beloved disciple, focuses on community life in his person that synthesizes all that is the Church.

Mary harmonises all aspects of community life: the life of the Holy Family in Nazareth and the life of the apostolic community at Pentecost. The Marian seal allows moving from a small community to the larger community of the faithful without loss of intimacy or dispersion into a functionalist reductionism. In Mary everything is personal and communal in a dynamic in which each dimension is enriched by the other. In Mary's praise and service, they feed each other as we see happening in the Visitation. The unique and intimate relationship with her Son does not preclude a relationship of being a common disciple beside the other disciples. All we focus on her and she removes from the centre noise or competition.

In Mary harmonize all aspects of ecclesial soul: she is the daughter, wife, mother and friend. Grandma always young, mature woman always young .

Marianism is the criterion of discernment to evaluate the quality of emotional life, personal and communal, of the trainees. Mary opens all sealed so far to God alone. Maria wife and mother in her small family and in the heart of the Church universal wife and mother.

What would be the " no "that consolidates the Marian character of the community dimension? Obviously, a "no" to Mary out of a Catholic background is difficult for a priest or for someone to explicitly exclude Marian formation to your life. But an emphatically "no" can be expressed to that which makes Mary purely decorative, in some way. A no to all that is separate from her being in the center of priestly formation . The Marian character of the Church is what stresses fruitfully the Petrine character, preventing pharisaic attitudes and hardness of hearts. The Marian dimension gives substance to the spiritual dimension and ensures the pastoral dimension does not lose tenderness


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Cardinal Bergoglio was not Cardinal Meisner's candidate

"I would have presented someone different"
The choice of Bergoglio comes a surprise to many. Even Cardinal Joachim Meisner had another candidate. Does the Cardinal applaud the conclave?

Cardinal Joachim Meisner after the conclave
The decision of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to be the new Pope has been, according to Cardinal Joachim Meisner, a surprising choice. At a press conference after the conclave Meisner expressed his skepticism in different variations: "I have had someone different in mind before hand," said Meisner. "About Cardinal Bergoglio, I did not think." He also put it: "I would have presented someone different."

However, it was a good sign that the new pope is very different from what he thought he would be. Choosing Bergoglio was a day-long process and have emerged gradually in the discussion and voting. "I think most people who have emerged from the Conclave, said that we could not have imagined the choice," said Meisner. The Cardinals were after the end of voting, however happy with the choice. Meisner talking like this after the conclave? Has he violated the code of silence?


"The Director has led to another"

"He's been given to us and he is really welcome," said Meisner. The conclave had shown: "The Director has led us to another, we the Cardinals had no role." Meisner alluded to the fact that the election of a Pope revealed the will of God.

It is expected that the new Pope will lead the church with an iron hand and with a strong expression of social teaching

He is also alleged not to have distanced himself enough from the time of the military dictatorship.

Francis is an educated man who also speaks German, Meisner said. "He will surprise us all." He was curious to see what positive things Francis will contribute to the Catholic Church.

With Cardinal Bergoglio from Argentina, for the first time a Latin American has been elected Pope. Never before also was a Jesuit church leader.

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Cathcon had some ideas on who Cardinal Meisner's candidate might be.  This may indicate that Pope Benedict may not be too happy about the way things have turned out-  but he did promote then Cardinal Bergoglio.

Bergoglio had no links with the dictatorship

The human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Argentine Adolfo Perez Esquivel , said that Jorge Bergoglio , new Pope Francis , "had no links with the dictatorship" which some critics accuse him of. Speaking to BBC News, Perez Esquivel said that "there were bishops who were accomplices of the dictatorship, but in the case of Bergoglio no". "There is nothinhg to link him to the dictatorship" , he added "Bergoglio was questioned because it is said he did not do enough to get out of jail two priests, as he was the Superior of the Jesuits. But I know personally that many bishops called on the military junta for the release of prisoners and priests and these requests were granted " said Perez Esquivel. Bergoglio association with the dictatorship was related to the testimony of María Elena Funes, a catechist who was detained at the ESMA , following the arrest and subsequent disappearance of two Jesuit priests.

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Rabbi Bergoglio

More on this here soon!

New Pope in line up with Protestant Ministers at Charismatic Rally

Father Cantalamessa, Capuchin and Preacher of the Papal Household also in evidence. He was for twelve years a member of the Catholic Delegation for the dialogue with the Pentecostal Churches. Cathcon suspects he is the Franciscan connection.

 It is an old, old story- if you want to be charismatic, you will go and find the real thing. The Church dressing up in these clothes will convince no-one and is no way to combat the Protestant inroads into the South American faithful.

Horrific ecclesiastical positions of Pope Francis

The Horror!

Of all the unthinkable candidates, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is perhaps the worst. Not because he openly professes doctrines against the faith and morals, but because, judging from his work as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, faith and moral seem to have been irrelevant to him.

A sworn enemy of the Traditional Mass, he has only allowed imitations of it in the hands of declared enemies of the ancient liturgy. He has persecuted every single priest who made an effort to wear a cassock, preach with firmness, or that was simply interested in Summorum Pontificum.

Famous for his inconsistency (at times, for the unintelligibility of his addresses and homilies), accustomed to the use of coarse, demagogical, and ambiguous expressions, it cannot be said that his magisterium is heterodox, but rather non-existent for how confusing it is.

His entourage in the Buenos Aires Curia, with the exception of a few clerics, has not been characterized by the virtue of their actions. Several are under grave suspicion of moral misbehavior.

He has not missed any occasion for holding acts in which he lent his Cathedral to Protestants, Muslims, Jews, and even to partisan groups in the name of an impossible and unnecessary interreligious dialogue. He is famous for his meetings with protestants in the Luna Park arena where, together with preacher of the Pontifical House, Raniero Cantalamessa, he was "blessed" by Protestant ministers, in a common act of worship in which he, in practice, accepted the validity of the "powers" of the TV-pastors.

This election is incomprehensible: he is not a polyglot, he has no Curial experience, he does not shine for his sanctity, he is loose in doctrine and liturgy, he has not fought against abortion or homosexual "marriage" [approved with practically no opposition from the episcopate], he has no manners to honor the Pontifical Throne. He has never fought for anything else than to remain in positions of power.

It really cannot be what Benedict wanted for the Church. And he does not seem to have any of the conditions required to continue his work.

May God help His Church. One can never dismiss, as humanly hard as it may seem, the possibility of a conversion... and, nonetheless, the future terrifies us.


Source- I have reproduced in full just to express the horror which I share. Please visit Rorate Caeli as they also have more information on the election.

New Pope celebrated Hanukkah as well as Christmas

But cannot bring himself to be charitable to the Latin Mass.

New Pope- enemy of Catholic Tradition

"I live in Buenos Aires. Bergoglio has destroyed the archdioceses, persecuting every single orthodox priest. He despises sacrality, and has de facto prohibited the application of Summorum Pontificum. He is an utter enemy of Tradition, ill-minded, almost maffiosi.

This has to be a severe chastisement from God to us all.
Antonio"

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Pope Francis I sympathizes with the charismatic movement.