Pope Francis too active with Venezuela and Nicaragua
by Giuseppe Vatinno
Pope Francis received a letter from twenty former South American Heads of State regarding his Christmas speech on the Venezuela (and Nicaragua).
The signatories are:
Oscar Arias, Costa Rica; Nicolás Ardito Barletta, Panama; Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua; Alfredo Cristiani, El Salvador; Felipe Calderon, Mexico; Rafael Angel Calderon, Costa Rica; Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rica; Fernando De la Rúa, Argentina; Vicente Fox, Mexico; Eduardo Frei, Chile; César Gaviria T., Colombia; Osvaldo Hurtado, Ecuador; Luis Alberto Lacalle, Uruguay ;Jamil Mahuad, Ecuador; Mireya Moscoso, Panama ; Andrés Pastrana A., Colombia; Jorge Tuto Quiroga, Bolivia; Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Costa Rica; Álvaro Uribe V., Colombia; John Charles Wasmosy, Paraguay.
He had said Pontiff:
“This time of blessing allows the Venezuela to find harmony and for all social components to work fraternally for the development of the country and to assist the weakest sections of the population".
At this point though, the protest started from IDEA (Democratic initiative of Spain and the Americas) in which the former Presidents of Latin American countries recognize themselves.
Pope Francis, from the beginning of his pontificate, he was very attentive to the Venezuelan affair and even invited Nicholas Maduro in the Vatican, sending high prelates to Caracas and activating the dense episcopal network that innervates Latin America and which has direct contact with the local population, which is largely Catholic.
He then gave a mandate to Secretary of State Pietro Parolin (who was nuncio right in Venezuela until 2013) to do everything to resolve the crisis.
Hyperactivity d'Beyond the Tiber it was interpreted by former Heads of State as interference by the Pope and dangerous support for a regime considered dictatorial.
So they write (also referring to the case of Nicaragua):
“The expressions of His Holiness which we know to be in good faith and dictated by his spirit as a pastor, they can also be interpreted in a negative way for the majority of Venezuelans and Nicaraguans. Especially when it exists, currently, in both countries, a political disagreement that calls for tolerance and understanding, between distant discourse and narrative forces, within a very undemocratic framework" where lying is elevated to a system, where there is no freedom of the press, On the contrary, where dissenting voices risk imprisonment and persecution and often even death as reported by American and European human rights bodies".
The signatories then close the letter with the hope of a invitation to the Vatican in “propitious circumstances”.
It is now clear that there is a front of protest against Francis both at the level of leadership of the universal Church and at a doctrinal and political level.
The scandals sexual (homosexuality and pedophilia) they continue incessantly like those financial.
The picture that is emerging is in fact that of a Pope who is very interested in earthly matters and therefore far away, in fact, from the apparent adherence to the ideals of Vatican Council II.
Oscar Arias, Costa Rica; Nicolás Ardito Barletta, Panama; Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua; Alfredo Cristiani, El Salvador; Felipe Calderon, Mexico; Rafael Angel Calderon, Costa Rica; Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rica; Fernando De la Rúa, Argentina; Vicente Fox, Mexico; Eduardo Frei, Chile; César Gaviria T., Colombia; Osvaldo Hurtado, Ecuador; Luis Alberto Lacalle, Uruguay ;Jamil Mahuad, Ecuador; Mireya Moscoso, Panama ; Andrés Pastrana A., Colombia; Jorge Tuto Quiroga, Bolivia; Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Costa Rica; Álvaro Uribe V., Colombia; John Charles Wasmosy, Paraguay.
He had said Pontiff:
“This time of blessing allows the Venezuela to find harmony and for all social components to work fraternally for the development of the country and to assist the weakest sections of the population".
At this point though, the protest started from IDEA (Democratic initiative of Spain and the Americas) in which the former Presidents of Latin American countries recognize themselves.
Pope Francis, from the beginning of his pontificate, he was very attentive to the Venezuelan affair and even invited Nicholas Maduro in the Vatican, sending high prelates to Caracas and activating the dense episcopal network that innervates Latin America and which has direct contact with the local population, which is largely Catholic.
He then gave a mandate to Secretary of State Pietro Parolin (who was nuncio right in Venezuela until 2013) to do everything to resolve the crisis.
Hyperactivity d'Beyond the Tiber it was interpreted by former Heads of State as interference by the Pope and dangerous support for a regime considered dictatorial.
So they write (also referring to the case of Nicaragua):
“The expressions of His Holiness which we know to be in good faith and dictated by his spirit as a pastor, they can also be interpreted in a negative way for the majority of Venezuelans and Nicaraguans. Especially when it exists, currently, in both countries, a political disagreement that calls for tolerance and understanding, between distant discourse and narrative forces, within a very undemocratic framework" where lying is elevated to a system, where there is no freedom of the press, On the contrary, where dissenting voices risk imprisonment and persecution and often even death as reported by American and European human rights bodies".
The signatories then close the letter with the hope of a invitation to the Vatican in “propitious circumstances”.
It is now clear that there is a front of protest against Francis both at the level of leadership of the universal Church and at a doctrinal and political level.
The scandals sexual (homosexuality and pedophilia) they continue incessantly like those financial.
The picture that is emerging is in fact that of a Pope who is very interested in earthly matters and therefore far away, in fact, from the apparent adherence to the ideals of Vatican Council II.
source – http://www.affaritaliani.it/cronache/papa-francesco-contestato-da-venti-ex-capi-di-stato-581003.html
