FrancisChurch Martyrs: Obama Justice Dept. Deporting Anti-Communist Ally

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Is every Jesuit killed fighting for Communism a martyr?

Is every Jesuit killed fighting for Communism a martyr?

It’s a new world for men who fought Communist guerrillas in Latin America.  They’ve got no home in this country any more.

The United States on Wednesday deported Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, El Salvador’s former defense minister, accused of involvement in torture and killings 30 years ago during the Central American country’s bloody civil war, U.S. officials said.

Vides Casanova was defense minister from 1983-89, a brutal period during the conflict between leftist rebels and U.S.-backed government forces. He retired and moved to Florida in 1989.

The Department of Homeland Security had in 2009 announced its initiation of deportation proceedings, at the request of human rights activists who sued on behalf of torture survivors.

How could he be a pro-freedom immigrant one day and a torturing criminal after Obama takes the White House?  I guess Obama’s no Bill Clinton Democrat.

“The deportation of General Vides Casanova is a historic moment for the victims and survivors of human rights abuses during El Salvador’s civil war,” said Carolyn Patty Blum, Legal Advisor the San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability, which brought a case against Vides Casanova in 1999 on behalf of torture victims living in the United States.

“The removal from the United States of Vides Casanova, a general at the apex of power during years of horrendous repression, is unprecedented, she added.

It’s so unprecedented you could even call it un-American.

His deportation to El Salvador came on the same day that U.S. authorities announced they will seek the extradition of a former colonel in the Salvadoran army wanted by Spain to face charges over the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

This should lend much-needed credibility to these new FrancisChurch saints the Pope is eager to proclaim, Jesuit priests who plotted against their governments on behalf of that ‘christianity’ he says people always confuse with Communism.

 

 

 

 

FrancisChurch: Why Do They Oppress Us When We’re So Open and Embracing?

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Francis to America: Christ-like hugs all around!

Francis to America: Christ-like hugs all around!

In commenting on the generally tragic movement of the anti-Christian bar in Indiana and Arkansas recently, D.C. Cd. Donald Wuerl opens with a glowing discussion of the Pope’s Christlike openness and outreach.

When Pope Francis comes to the United States in September, his message will be that “God loves all of us the way we are” and “God asks us to love one another,” said Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington.

“We see in him not just the message, but how you do it,” the cardinal said in an interview with Fox News on Easter. “The way in which he lives, treats people, responds to people says, I think, to many people … he sounds and looks a lot like what Jesus would have sounded like.”

Cardinal Wuerl said that “a beautiful part of his ministry” and why people find Pope Francis “so inviting” is that “he keeps saying, ‘Go out, meet people where they are, and accompany them on their journey,’ so that perhaps all of us could get a little closer to where we all need to be.”

I find this kind of thing ugly. Why do we always have to be treated to some kind of verbal embrace when we hear about the Pope? Don’t worry sinner. Here, have a hug! I know you can’t help it. You’re just that way!

It’s not love. It’s just warmth, and it’s not what Jesus would have sounded like at all.

Jesus sounded like He did in the Bible.  Those are His words, yes?  If Jesus sounded like Pope Francis they never would have killed him.  They would have begged him to come visit and praised him in the Temple.

In the Fox interview, Cardinal Wuerl discussed the ongoing debate on religious freedom and discrimination, saying that people involved in that debate need to realize there is strong discrimination against the Catholic Church.

“If we talk about discrimination, then we also have to talk about discriminating against the Catholic Church, its teachings and its ability to carry out its mission,” he said.

“No one should be forced to follow the actions of another and accept the actions of another. … Our schools should be free to teach. We don’t believe in abortion, and we need to be free to teach that,” the cardinal told Fox News.

He also talked about, for instance, the situation of a Christian baker being forced to make a cake for a same-sex wedding when the baker is morally opposed to such marriages.

Cardinal Wuerl asked whether the use of anti-discrimination laws is seen as one-way street.

“I wonder if across the board we’re not seeing different measuring rods being used when it comes to issues that we’re facing here, for example,” he said. “Why would it be discrimination for a Catholic university to say we’re not going to allow a gay rights or an abortion rights group to have their program on our campus, and it not be discrimination for that group to insist that the Catholic school change its teaching?”

In one case, the Christian owners of a bakery in Oregon face a fine of $150,000 after being found guilty of violating a state anti-discrimination law for declining to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

Cardinal Wuerl said he believes there must be a way to “recognize the dignity of everyone and at the same time recognize the freedom and the rights, especially religious liberty, of everyone.”

It’s encouraging and appropriate to hear the powerful American cardinal make an eloquent defense of Christians, but does it really matter now that we’ve lost this battle and our side wants to pretend we’re still negotiating?

 

 

S.O.S. to Pope Francis: Come Save the Iran-Obama Nuke Deal!

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Oh Pope Francis, work your magic!

 

As the frightening Obama Iran Nuke capitulation seems perhaps to be stalling on all sides; John Allen, Pope Francis, and Obama remain believers.  Seeing how effective the Pope was in lining America up with the Cuban thug regime, Allen suggests it’s time for Pope Francis work another miracle. Will the Vicar of Christ come through?

Popes generally use their Easter Urbi et Orbi address, “to the city and the world,” to pray for peace amid global conflicts. Francis followed that tradition on Sunday, among other things commenting on a tentative nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations, including the United States, and Iran.

The pontiff said, “In hope we entrust to the merciful Lord the framework recently agreed to in Lausanne, that it may be a definitive step toward a more secure and fraternal world.”

That may not amount to a direct endorsement, but it’s certainly more favorable than the commentary coming from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Republicans in Congress about the outline for an accord reached April 2 in Switzerland, not to mention Iranian hardliners who see it as a threat to their national interests. (On Monday, Israel backed off its insistence that Iran halt all uranium enrichment, a move seen as acknowledgement that the pact required concessions on all sides.)

What is the political point of Pope Francis?  Is it to go around lending ‘spiritual’ leverage to enemies of the Church worldwide?  Why do John Boehner, Jeb Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden all seem to be faithful new Catholics of FrancisChurch?  Does he have something they all want?

Moderates on both sides of the divide, in other words, may struggle to bring along the hawks in their own shops. In that effort, the Vatican could turn out to be a surprisingly potent resource.

First of all, Pope Francis has plenty of political capital at the moment because of his high approval ratings and perceptions of his moral authority. He also has a proven capacity to translate that capital into results, as his role in restoring relations between the United States and Cuba illustrates.

If Francis were to lend his seal of approval to the nuclear deal, even campaigning for it in the oblique but unmistakable way popes sometimes do on political matters, it could move the needle in terms of public opinion.

On a more long-term basis, the Vatican may be the global institution with the best shot at rebuilding trust between Iran and the West.

Is it ‘building trust’ or just lending false credibility in the name of Christ?