“ROME?—Pope Francis said that the “barking of NATO at the door of Russia” might have led to the invasion of Ukraine and that he didn't know whether other countries should supply Ukraine with more arms” reports the Wall Street Journal. “Since February, Pope Francis has deplored the suffering of Ukrainians and denounced the invasion but refrained from explicitly naming Russia as the aggressor…In Ukraine, it was other states that created the conflict,” Pope Francis said in the interview.
No such “objectivity” seemed to influence the Castro-hailing Pope Francis when expounding on former President Trump’s attempts to defend U.S. doors from something that goes quite beyond “barking.”
"Pope Francis has criticized the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the Mexican border…Speaking to Reuters, the Pope said he supported recent statements by U.S. Catholic bishops who called the separation of children from their parents 'contrary to our Catholic values' and 'immoral.'" (Reuters, June 20, 2018.)
Pope Francis also bashed U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump:
"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian." (Pope Francis after holding a showy mass in Ciudad Juarez for the Mexicans who died trying to cross the U.S. border, Feb. 18, 2016.)
But upon one of his many fond visits to Stalinist Cuba Pope Francis held an even showier mass in the company of Castro and with Che Guevara as the backdrop. Never mind that about 20 times as many Cubans have died trying to escape Castro’s Cuba as died trying to escape East “Tear Down this Wall!” Germany. Never mind any of that.
What makes this death tally in the Florida straits more horrible (and the Pope’s hypocrisy more revolting) is that prior to Castro and Che Guevara’s destruction of Cuban society, the prosperous island nation took in more immigrants per-capita (mostly European) than the U.S.
You’d never guess this from the Fake News media, Hollywood or your professors, but in 1953 more Cubans vacationed in the U.S. (and voluntarily returned to Cuba) than Americans in Cuba. Yes, for pre-Castro Cubans the U.S. was a “tourist playground.”
“What?” you say. But you’ve always heard that it was the other way around? That Cuba was a tourist playground for Americans? Indeed it was—but the tourist traffic went both ways, as befit a nation described by a 1957 UNESCO report thusly: "One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class. So check it out here--and please click links for thorough documentation.
But I referred to Pope Francis as “Castro-hailing,” right? Well:
“During their meeting (in Sept. 2015) the Pope thanked comrade Fidel Castro for his contributions to world peace in a world saturated with hate and aggression." (Cuba’s Communist party paper, Sept 21st 2015.)
“It is the communists,” Pope Francis told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica six years ago, “that think like Christians. Christ has spoken of a society where the poor, the weak and the excluded are those who make the decisions.” Castro’s captive (literally!) press was quick to spread this bit of gratifying news.
“The defiant yells (“Viva Cristo Rey!”—“Viva Cuba Libre!”-“Abajo Comunismo!”) from the bound and staked martyrs “would make the walls of La Cabana prison tremble!” wrote eyewitness to the slaughter, Armando Valladares, who suffered 22 torture-filled years in Castro’s prisons and was later appointed by Ronald Reagan as U.S. ambassador to U.N Human Rights Commission.
Given their valiant defiance even during their last seconds alive, by mid 1961 the mere binding and blindfolding of Castro and Che’s young Catholic murder victims wasn’t enough. The fine folks who hosted Pope Francis’ in Cuba in Sept. 2015 then began ordering that the Catholic youths also be gagged. The shaken firing-squads demanded it. The yells were badly unnerving the trigger-pullers, you see.
So now, as the fine folks who hosted Pope Francis’ in Cuba yanked the young Catholic heroes from the cells, bent their arms back, and bound their hands, two more Communist guards came into play. One grabbed the struggling victim’s hair and jerked his head back, trying to steady him. The other taped his mouth shut.
Raul Castro (who hosted the Pope at the Sept. 2015 Havana Mass) and Che Guevara (whose visage formed the backdrop for the Mass) were the most notorious executioners during the early years of the Cuban Revolution. The orders, of course, all issued from Fidel Castro, who Pope Francis went out of his way to visit and smilingly hob-nob with after the Mass, profusely thanking him for his efforts towards “world peace,” (I am NOT making this up!)
“I am not Christ or a philanthropist,” wrote Che Guevara in a letter to his mother. “I am all the contrary of a Christ--In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.”
As mentioned: an enormous image of Che Guevara formed the backdrop to Pope Francis’ Mass in Havana on Sept., 20, 2015.
It’s perfectly fitting that a Pope who often expresses affection for a KGB-created and sponsored regime (the Castro brothers and Che Guevara had a KGB handler, Nikolai Leonov, since 1957) should refrain from openly disparaging a KGB Lieut. Col. (Vladimir Putin.) And as you might guess Cuba’s KGB-founded and mentored media (the same one that routinely denounces your humble servant here as a “TRAITOR! and SCOUNDREL!”) is whole–hog with Putin on his typically murderous Ukraine invasion.