Pope Francis takes us all for fools but the games that he plays are clearly visible

Just a month ago Pope Bergoglio asked with a "please" not to be linked to Argentine politics. It was when he confirmed his intention to visit our country only next year because there will be no more elections. Bergoglio plays the part. While he plays the game of impartiality, he has just appointed as the new Archbishop of Buenos Aires, the highest Catholic member of the hierarchy in the country, an avowedly Peronist priest. The new Archbishop is Ignacio García Cuerva. He was a slum priest, then Bishop of Santa Cruz and a typical militant of Argentinean anti-capitalist Catholic poverty-worshippers. But he is, above all, a Peronist. Here we can listen to him, for example, celebrating Mass in front of Malena Galmarini, the head of the station workers' union, Carlos Acuña, and other militants who think themselves great.

There, the pastor told his sheep: "I am sure that we all said at some point 'I want to be a Peronist'", and then went into a sea of praise: those who want to be Peronists are those who are committed to an idea, those who want a different country, a different world, to be witnesses of good news, to fight to spread hope, to be in the midst of the people, and have a social vocation. Of the others he said nothing, but it is clear and implicit: non-Peronists have none of those virtues that the church usually bestows on martyrs. All this while quoting Perón at Mass.

Bergoglio is doing the last great favour to Peronism, that political vehicle of the illiberal Catholic Nation that prefers authoritarianism to the West, as the Italian historian Loriz Zanatta describes it.

Bergoglio has just closed the fence within which the next government will be trapped: a priest who, more than a pastor, sounds more like a pointer at the head of the Argentinian Church. García Cuerva will close ranks with the Peronist trade unionists, the messianic Grabois-type demonstrators (Grabois is an activist, left-wing lawyer) who bring the traffic to a standstill, the industrialist elite, the feudal governors, a populist majority in Congress and a state completely colonised by paid Kirchner militants. Harassment and demolition of any government that is not Peronist. That is what they will do.

That is the chip that Bergoglio has just put on the table. The Pope who then takes us for fools and asks us not to link him to Argentine politics. What a lot of imposture.

Source The new Archbishop proclaims himself a Peronist at a Requiem for Perón. O what a circus, O what a Church! What remains?