Posted on 02/15/2019 5:37:45 PM PST by marshmallow
Pope Francis has reportedly written to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro indicating conditions aren't ripe for the Vatican to step in and help mediate in the country's dramatic political crisis.
The Corriere della Sera newspaper on Wednesday quoted from a letter it said Francis wrote to Maduro on Feb. 7, several days after the socialist leader said in an interview that he had written to Francis to ask the pontiff's help in launching talks with the opposition.
A Vatican spokesman, Alessandro Gisotti, said the Holy See "doesn't comment on the letters of the Holy Father, which, obviously, are private in character."
Massimo Franco, the Corriere columnist who wrote the article, showed The Associated Press of copy of the letter he said Francis sent to Maduro.
On Monday, a delegation representing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido met at the Vatican with Holy See officials.
The Argentine-born Francis has lamented that Venezuelan bishops were frustrated in their efforts to help defuse political and social tensions in the country, where much of the population lacks adequate food and medicine.
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Pope sez:
“I’m still a Commie...”
Pope John Paul II gained a reputation throughout the world as a good man that Catholics and non-Catholics alike could look to as an example we would all do well to emulate. He gained so much good will by illustrating for the world the greatness of the God he served.
This pope will wipe out a lot of that good will.
He probably really thinks that country is too dangerous for him to visit right now. He would be right.
The citizens would not harm him, and would love a Papal Visit. It’s the military that is the uncertainty. Maduro’s Goon Squad.
Most Communist or Socialist presidents don’t want anyone around who is more influential that they believe themselves to be. That’s why China is demolishing churches to and fro.
2000 Generals in the military. Thats like 5000 VP’s at B of A with 80k employees.
With other popes it was easy to hear what they said and think about God. With this pope, everything he says seems to be about politics, and in Latin America, an adherence to communism regardless of the outcomes produced by communism. Who does he serve?
Mediation, my ass. Does the Pope mediate with the devil?
Don’t answer that ...
Francis continuing destructive confusing pontificating on temporal worldly social behavior has nothing to do with and avoids articles of faith. Let alone refusing to question and expound on the profound differences with the claims made by Islam and its followers simply because of its assertion of being monotheistic and honoring it. Is leading to a serious fracture within Christianity and The Roman Rite .
They will need some food and med help, after the bloody overthrow.
So...there is a ‘tipping point’ of misery, pain, death and destruction? A known, measurable level of grievous social damage? A level of suffering required before his popeness deigns to demand intervention?
Interesting interpretation of Christ’s teachings, I dare say.
Sure he is a commie with lots of skeletons his little boy closet! Many many issues of legality around him from the get go....
For that matter the entire Catholic Church appears too have problems of credibility
Nutball Pope needs to STFU.
That’s because this anti christ pope support Madura! If it was Pope Paul II he would have been there in a heartbeat.!
Anything the Pope says are the words of a Marxist. Thus anything he says is perfectly logical for Marxist ideology.
The Catholic Church is not longer my church. I did not leave my church, it left me.
Odd is it not that one of our greatest Popes in history, Pope John Paul’s throne is now in the possession of a Marxist. This is a function of the College of Cardinals that is infested with left wing radicals and homosexuals. My church is dead.
Let’s see how Pope Francis manages to sell out the anti-Maduro movement. After all, he can’t sell out his “liberation theology” buddy Maduro, can he?
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