How the New York Times Smeared Pope Francis Today
New York Times editors moving offices.
When Benedict XVI was pope, the New York Times ran a scurrilous, distortion-infested campaign intended to link the former Joseph Ratzinger with the awful abuse scandals that have so harmed the Catholic Church. These pieces were manifestly dishonest and substance-free when you read them through. But the Times editors know most people don’t read the articles — they read the headlines and the first paragraph.
So this morning, the pseudo-journalists at the Times began their campaign of lies against the new pope, Francis, under the damning (and damnable) headline: “Starting a Papacy, Amid Echoes of a ‘Dirty War’”:
One Argentine priest is on trial in Tucumán Province on charges of working closely with torturers in a secret jail during the so-called Dirty War, urging prisoners to hand over information. Another priest was accused of taking a newborn from his mother….
Another clergy member offered biblical justification for the military’s death flights, according to an account by one of the pilots anguished about dumping drugged prisoners out of aircraft and into the sea.
As he starts his papacy, Francis, until this month Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, faces his own entanglement with the Dirty War, which unfolded from 1976 to 1983. As the leader of Argentina’s Jesuits for part of that time, he has repeatedly had to dispute claims that he allowed the kidnapping of two priests in his order in 1976, accusations the Vatican is calling a defamation campaign.
This is just despicable, isn’t it? Lead with examples of some priests who were wicked then segue into a paragraph about the pope to make it sound like he was one of them. Really — for shame.
Reading more deeply into the story — which I did so you don’t have to — we learn that the pope’s “entanglement,” involved hiding fugitives from the government bad guys, pleading for the release of two priests, and helping one guy who looked like him escape by lending him his papers and a priest get-up. Which last is actually pretty cool. Go, Pope.
The Catholic Church is unambiguous that sex outside of marriage is a sin.
This is why Obama wants to force the church to pay for birth control/abortafacients. He is trying to deconstruct the church as it was handed down to St Peter by Christ, our Lord.
Very, very creepy dude. I refrain from making a stronger statement.
The world system loves it's own, and anyone who follows Christ will be hated by said system. Francis should be proud.
This is the first time in most of my life that I feel there is hope for the Universal Church to follow Christ. I have read about Francis, and hope what I have read is the truth. May G-d bless him, and watch over him in this world system sold out to Old Knobs agenda.
But, they still have a little room left over for slandering the Pope.
The Catholic Church is unambiguous that sex outside of marriage is a sin.
This is why Obama wants to force the church to pay for birth control/abortafacients. He is trying to deconstruct the church as it was handed down to St Peter by Christ, our Lord.
Very, very creepy dude. I refrain from making a stronger statement.
and now I have answer to my prayers of a New Holy Pope of Rome with a new name never given to a Holy Pope of Rome and i pray great miracles come down from earth in honor of the Saints named Francis
Let's take another run at it: Elderly Catholics, smug and passive as is so often the case, could and should have seen this coming. Instead, the author and fellow travelers choose to recoil haughtily to a familiar default: on the back foot, sniffing loudly, the living embodiment of a broken reed. Huff'n'puff lazy-assed babble about the outer circles of the inferno (wry? ironic? above your pay grade? or just pathetic?) will get you exactly nowhere. As you know.
Put bluntly, the Catholic Church has the money, power and talent to trounce a long list of NYT staffers who cannot withstand scrutiny of any kind. And Kirchner is true low-hanging fruit, a massive loser near meltdown (doubt that? -- then start by checking out her photos over the last three years). Instead, you elect to pout and whine, waffling down the familiar primrose path.
C'mon girls, is this the best you've got? Personally, I'd prefer a new crusade, against the forces of darkness everywhere. In true ecumenical spirit, how about starting every school day with a couple of verses of Onward Christian Soldiers!, right after the pledge of allegiance? You gotta know how to piss people off if you want to deliver your homily effectively. I believe Francisco does. Let's pray he can shake you all up.
The world system loves it's own, and anyone who follows Christ will be hated by said system. Francis should be proud.
This is the first time in most of my life that I feel there is hope for the Universal Church to follow Christ. I have read about Francis, and hope what I have read is the truth. May G-d bless him, and watch over him in this world system sold out to Old Knobs agenda.
But, they still have a little room left over for slandering the Pope.
I will be popularizing this.