Posted on 10/09/2015 2:07:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
SANTIAGO, Chile — Many watched in disbelief: There he was, Pope Francis, calling people in Osorno, a city in southern Chile, “dumb” for protesting against a bishop accused of being complicit in clerical sexual abuse.
“The Osorno community is suffering because it’s dumb,” Pope Francis told a group of tourists on St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, because it “has let its head be filled with what politicians say, judging a bishop without any proof.”
“Don’t be led by the nose by the leftists who orchestrated all of this,” the pope said.
The video, filmed by an Argentine tourist in May, was obtained by a Chilean television station and broadcast Friday, quickly instilling doubts here about the pope’s commitment to protecting victims of sexual abuse.
Under a heavy rain, demonstrators with black balloons chanted again outside the San Mateo Cathedral in Osorno on Sunday as the bishop at the center of the controversy, Juan Barros, said Mass.
Bishop Barros was appointed by the pope to head the Diocese of Osorno this year, despite reports that he had covered up sexual abuses committed by the Rev. Fernando Karadima, a prominent priest in Santiago, the capital.
Bishop Barros spent over 30 years alongside Father Karadima, who was found guilty of sexual abuses by the Vatican in 2011 and ordered to a life of seclusion, prayer and penitence. According to some of Father Karadima’s victims, Bishop Barros was witness to and complicit in the abuses.
Hundreds of demonstrators interrupted Bishop Barros’s installation ceremony in March, blocking his passage and shouting, “Barros, get out of the city!” The protests have not stopped since, but this time the anger has turned to the pope.
“The pope’s comments aggravated our discontent,” said Juan Carlos Claret, a spokesman for Osorno’s Lay Organization,
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Pope Marx steps in it again.
Projection, it's not just for Democrats anymore.
Hmmm... Is this story in a RELIABLE source?
Finda da Pope inna da pizza.
It’s from the NYSlimes, so that’s up to you to decide if it’s a reliable source.
A new day, a new “dumb” pope speak.
OK, that is a tough one.
The Leftists are certainly liars, and looking to smear the church wherever possible.
Yet the pope is a leftist himself ... so whom to believe?
“Don’t be led by the nose by the leftists who orchestrated all of this,” the pope said.
Maybe his remarks were just mis-translated from his native Spanish to... oops, Spanish...
Trust the People, so saith my dear Friend Thomas Jefferson.
Simplicity Berg olio demonstrates again that he’s in over his head.
Lefists?!?!?
This pope is Left of Stalin.
Ain't that the pope calling the kettle papal?
This has high viscosity irony.
The guy who flies around the world lying about Climate Change and doesn’t understand the rudiments of Christianity when he is the POPE calls other people dumb?
YIKES.
I’m sure that an Argentine Pope calling Chileans “dumb” went over really well. Hard to walk that one back.
Do you REALLY believe what is posted fro the Slimes about the Catholic Church? Or do you just not believe them when they put something out about libs vs. conservatives?
**Is this story in a RELIABLE source?**
Are you kidding? From the Slimes?
Can Catholics Recall a Pope? This guy is a disaster!
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