On 3/15/2013 4:02 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
brand new pope became pope with his reccord of aiding and abedding dead
squads in Argentina.
For a Catholic Jesuit priest this is unforgiveable, if actually true.
The Argentinian mothers of the disappeared seem to think so.
They "disapeared" (there is a movie about this)
all the hippies, lefties and alternative types then adopted their orphaned
children.
His latest statement is something about the Catholic Church needing to
focus more on theological teachings
if it wants to avoid being relegated to the pages of history as being
simply another NGO in the service of humanity.
If only they would do just that! He is a conservative Catholic who
abhorred
the Liberation Theology movement of decades past.
He labelled LT Marxist doctrine. It would be logical to assume that he
had the same opinion of the people in Argentina who were part of the
new cultural renaissance that happened, cultural, social, political.
It was primarily left leaning. As you might imagine many were probably
not so immersed in the political aspects, i.e. political reform, but
just wanted to get on with their lives while others may have
participated in more radical leftist campaigning, all enjoying and
benefiting from a refreshing, alternative, free thinking cultural
climate. There were educated, skilled professionals, artists,
architects, writers, poets, academics of all sorts, musicians, tradesmen
and many others involved in this movement. The military junta came to
power and committed genocide on these people. They were the Argentinian
counterparts to the same kinds of people creating a cultural renaissance
in the United States and Europe. Then, Kissinger and the CIA and other
collaborators did the same thing in Chile, overthrowing the leftist
Allende government and putting the despicable Pinochet in power; he
probably took his direction from Spain's Franco
who allowed the Nazis to use Spanish villages for target practice by the
Luftwaffe. Pinochet's thugs assassinated the popular musician Victor
Jara and probably the Poet Pablo Neruda as well (his body will soon be
exhumed for an autopsy to determine cause of death). I was 21 in 1960
and the Chinese invasion of Tibet had already happened; the full
meaning, if not even news of as well, along with that of the sad events
in Argentina, Brazil and Chile escaped my friends and I during the
period 1960-1980. None of my closest friend were involved in anything
political during those times. We were musicians, artists, thinkers and
dreamers interested in the teachings of Indian mystics.
I wish I had learned about Tibetan Buddhism then.
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