It was Francisco’s first comment with acid Buenos Aires humor. He has studied it. And the quick response of the lion who comes to eat the sheep but who is losing his wild mane, who seems to no longer be the king of the animals, or in the biblical sense, the Samson who, without hair, is losing his strength, the famous forces of heaven
Francisco: -“Thank you for coming, you who are half Jewish”
Milei: -Can I give you a hug? He asked.
Francisco: Yes son, yes.
Most of the videos were edited. Just when Bergoglio says “Jew.” That “almost Jewish” is another very Buenos Aires comment, where he points out what we all saw from the new president who had taken communion in St. Peter’s Basilica, that is, eating the body of Christ, the ostia or eucharist, but who a few days ago had just burst into tears and embraced his spiritual guide, the rabbi and ambassador in Israel, in front of the wailing wall, at hours, at night, celebrates between dances with more rabbis, and even promises the Israeli prime minister and head of the war against Palestine to move the Argentine embassy to the holy land setting off the alarms of religious harmony.
The Pope treated him well, like a young man, with jokes, he let him hug him and made him notice it. He also let his sister, Karina, the protector, kiss him when she asked. They were good. They approached with affection. The Pope liked it. But he added another lapidary comment that places how he sees the Argentine head of state: “Thank you for taking care of this one.”
For the Jesuit Pope the insults passed. He never fought him. It is not true, as many communicators say, that there was reconciliation between the two. The Pope never attacked him. Milei yes for political performance. That is why the bishop of Rome in his discernment applied mercy and love. Two central axes of his life. That he not only proclaims. He has the coherence to exercise them. Without seeing this he does not understand the phone call when Milei won the runoff. To whomever attacked him, the Pope turned the other cheek and approached. The Society of Jesus, as the Jesuits were originally called, the congregation that formed Bergoglio, has firm principles: love, heroism, cunning and the salvation of souls. Faced with a messianic president, colliding head-on does not bring good results.
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Bergoglio continues to believe that faith is an encounter, a hand in hand, that is what he dedicates himself to. It is not new. That is why it is pertinent to remember a specific case from these times and ideologically opposed to Milei.
It was with the reference of human rights, Hebe de Bonafini. The founder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association, with two sons and a sister-in-law kidnapped and disappeared by the last military dictatorship, had insulted him and had even taken over the Cathedral complaining about the hunger of the children, at the time of the megacrisis of 2001. But Bergoglio, who for years had been Slandered in furious and costly media campaigns as an accomplice of the genocidaires, he was the one who looked for Hebe. He did it via different people to invite her to talk in her Vatican home, Santa Marta, without protocol, not in the Apostolic Palace like the president of Catholic origin who is today a little Jewish, as he defines himself. Since that meeting between the Pope and Hebe, they became friends, with exchanges of telephone calls and letters. Hebe herself told it in her last report with a journalist face to face, in an article titled: Hebe de Bonafini: enemy of Bergoglio, friend of Francisco.
Spiritual and political myopia
Compassion has a revolutionary force. He’s not out for revenge. It `s the opposite. Love as a response to someone who offended or attacked me. This leads to political cunning. The Pope’s human fraternity is not just a text titled Fratelli Tutti. He also puts it into practice. There its coherence is uncomfortable.
Milei and his government rushed to spread the word that the Pope endorsed their economic policy. The Vatican only released a brief statement, a classic of meetings with heads of state, where it only added that the prime minister and the Pope’s chancellor spoke with Milei about wars and the commitment to peace. They discouraged him from adding military resources and diplomatic provocations to the third world war in installments.
During these hours you see and hear the Catholic Milei members and their media spokespersons happy as a dog with two tails, they believe that the Pope extended a lifeline for Milei a few days after his worst moment with the defeats with his delegation of powers and the so-called law omnibus, both in Congress and with the governors, not only Peronists, but also with the bishops and village priests who criticized the lack of food in the dining rooms and picnic areas, as well as their attacks or exclusions from the popular and union movements. For now, the street is another defeat for Milei, since the popular anger is expressed in the overflowing mobilizations throughout the country, at the end of January (full summer vacation) that led to the first strike of the historic CGT, accompanied by other union centers such as the CTA and the popular economy union, UTEP, of origin in the numerous popular movements.
On the other hand, The antimilei are angry or disillusioned with the Pope for his approach. They see the Pope’s gestures badly. They don’t see the spiritual leader. Nor to the political leader who expresses himself in the gifts that the Argentine president received. They stay in the hug and not in the five encyclicals that he asked Milei to read. All texts that are in clear opposition to hyper-individualism and the save-the-fittest that preaches extreme liberalism or anarcho-capitalism. It is worth remembering that the president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner At their first meeting, the Vicar of Christ gave him the conclusions of the meeting of Latin American bishops.
The so-called “Aparecida document”, after the city of Brazil, had as its main editor Victor Manuel “Tucho” Fernandéz, one of the men closest to Bergoglio who a few months ago consecrated him cardinal and also crowned him with the responsibility of the strategic dicastery (we call the ministry) Doctrine of the Faith, and at the same time integrates eight other Vatican ministries. None other than Francis’ extremely trusted cardinal came, this Monday, February 11, to speak with the journalists who were awaiting Milei’s departure from the meeting with the Pope. The cardinal could have avoided the press but he went there and made a thoughtful statement towards the priests who live in the popular neighborhoods and critical of Milei’s policies: “They live inside the village, you have to understand those worries and pains, that hopelessness.”
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“God is greater”. It was Bergoglio’s phrase, from his wheelchair, on Sunday from St. Peter’s Basilica in response to Milei when he went into detail about the political difficulties that his chancellor is having. Francisco’s response is not minor to a person who perceives himself as Moses.
The Pope did not change. Milei yes: “I reconsidered some positions and, from that moment, we began to build a positive bond,” the ultraliberal economist in charge of the Argentine Executive Branch told an Italian media.
From a more mundane political perspective, Milei is an opponent of “His Holiness”, of the Gospel, but from the hearts of the followers of Jesus he is a president who must be accompanied spiritually. In the private audience he apologized for the insults. Jorge Mario responded: “a boy’s sin.”
Source: Ambito
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