A Communist woman was one who influence this so called pope? Sorry, the old statement: ‘Is the pope Catholic?’ is gone since this pope is not Catholic.
Hmmm... Ms. Ballestrino was the Pope’s former boss at one time and later he smuggled “communist books” out of her home in case it was searched by the regime. Unusual activity for a priest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Ballestrino
She worked in the foods section at Hickethier-Bachmann Laboratory in Buenos Aires, where one of her subordinates was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who would later become Pope Francis. He remembers working for her and her attention to detail. He later commented that Marxists could be good people and he saw Ballestrino as a major influence on him. Ballestrino is said to be the first woman to be the boss of a future pope.[1]
In 1976 two of her sons, Manuel Carlos Cuevas and Ives Domergue, were kidnapped and they disappeared. Ballestrino was credited with helping found the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo which came out of other mothers of missing children who met at the Plaza de Mayo.[2] The next year, her pregnant daughter Ana Maria Careaga was also abducted in December 1977 by the authorities and tortured.[3] Ballestrino contacted her associate, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and asked that he come to give the last rites to a relative. The Catholic Bergoglio was surprised, as he knew that Ballestrino was a Marxist. When he arrived, he learned that Ballestrino’s real intention was to have him smuggle out the family’s collection of communist books. Ballestrino was worried that these books would lead to her arrest in the case of a house search. Bergoglio did as he was requested and smuggled out the books.[4]
In December 1977, Ballestrino, Sisters Alice and Léonie, along with other Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, prepared a request for the names of those who disappeared and for the government to divulge their whereabouts. The reply was publicized in the newspaper La Nación on December 10, 1977. Navy captain Alfredo Astiz had infiltrated the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,[5] and the authorities moved against the ringleaders.[6] Ballestrino and María Ponce (es) were seized by the security forces in the Church of Santa Cruz in downtown Buenos Aires.[4]
The women were taken to a detention centre by the Argentine security services, where they were tortured and then dropped into the sea from an aircraft whilst presumably still living.[2]