Posted on 02/16/2017 2:10:20 PM PST by ebb tide
Militant socialists stormed a Mass in Venezuela on Sunday, shouting slogans such as “Satan in a cassock” and “fascist!”
Congregants told Reuters that about 20 people barged in to San Pedro Claver church in the “23 De Enero” community, shouting “Chavez lives!”
The area is militantly loyal to Venezuela’s socialist government.
Luis Arias, 67, a catechism teacher, said: “Some people were scared, obviously, but no one was hurt.
“They said: ‘Because the priests have spoken about politics, we have the right too.'”
The leader of the group, who works at a nearby radio station, made a political speech from the pulpit and denounced the local priest who had been sharing Church pronouncements critical of President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
Archbishop Diego Padron, president of Venezuela’s bishops’ conference, said the attack at San Pedro Claver church was not an isolated one.
“There must be a line, an order, to intimidate the Church, to lower its discourse, to [silence it],” he told Reuters. “The government’s retaliation against the declarations of the conference is intimidation.”
In January, Caracas’s main cathedral was stoned in the middle of the night after Archbishop Antonio Lopez gave a speech saying socialism had brought misery.
In a separate incident, a group wearing masks and wielding rifles entered a Trappist monastery in the Andean state of Merida, robbing and terrorising monks. This incident followed another where Catholic students were beaten up and stripped naked by thugs in the same state.
If I had a dollar for every time socialist militants stormed my church...
How very...Berkeley...of them.
Catholics sow socialism and now Catholics reap socialism.
Both of them pretty fat, I might add - one really sleek like an eel. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Depends on the parish. Mine, in NY, is conservative.
Pope Francis is very close to the socialists who have ruined the Venezuela economy and brought misery and suffering to the Venezuelan people.
Venezuela is the example of how Pope Francis thinks an economy should be run.
Venezuela and Cuba are the countries Pope Francis most admires.
How ironic that at the same time that Pope Francis is attacking faithful Catholics and trying to destroy the Catholic church the socialist thugs who control Venezuela are doing the same thing.
Pope Francis must be very happy about this.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to refer to the believing Catholics whom I respect. This is what I’m referring to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology
Of course, everyone knows that the Vice-President of Venezuela is a Druze with Syrian roots whose father and uncle were Baathists and worked for Saddam Hussein, right?
How could they do that to dear old Marxist Frankie, who loves them so much???
It’s not the church making them starve.
Given the fact that the Catholic church has been in bed so much with socialism and refused to kick out left-wing heretics from its own structure (”Catholics For Choice, anyone?!) I really can’t manage to drum up a whole lot of sympathy.
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