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John Paul II
- Subject: John Paul II
- From: "The Cat's Dream" <info at thecatsdream.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:05:33 +0200
The Cat's Dream NewsLetter <http://TheCatsDream.com>http://TheCatsDream.com 'The world has lost a champion of human freedom' said US President George Bush. 'The world has lost a religious leader who was revered across people of all faiths and none. He was an inspiration; a man of extraordinary faith, dignity and courage' said UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. Too bad these two mass murderers and war criminals were not 'inspired' by John Paul II when he was strongly opposing the invasion of Iraq. Karol Wojtyla, the man who led the Roman Catholic Church for the last 27 years, died Saturday night. He was 84. A strong and complex personality, he opposed Communism and atheism in his native Poland and the other Eastern European countries when they were under the control of the former Soviet Union. He also opposed Capitalism and its effects on the peoples in the exploited countries, but this is - obviously - not mentioned by the western media which adopted the myth of 'the end of History': with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Empire of Evil was defeated, we (sic!) won and we (sic!) live in the best of the worlds, where we (sic!) are trying to export all over the places the best products "made in the West": freedom and democracy. BBC, CNN, ABC, The New York Times, The Guardian... all these respectable corporate media sell this story with very minimal, unimportant differences. The 'end of ideologies' presents Capitalism as the new 'state of nature'. Amen. Going back to the man called the pope. John Paul II was the pope who took the Church back to the political arena, claiming political and social power and destroying the few attempts of some democratization and decentralization which had been started since the Vatican Council II when pope John XXIII tried to use (for a change!) some love and good sense within the Church. One of the most important signs of the effects of the Vatican Council II was the Liberation Theology in South America, where the Church started to back the oppressed and to work for social justice and change. Jesus Christ would have been happy to see such a change, after for so many centuries the Church was one of the causes of that exploitation and always justified it. The Catholic hierarchy in Rome thought differently. With John Paul II as its Pontifex Maximum, the Church punished those priests and teachers who tried to help the oppressed and bring some happiness and social justice in their lives. Once again, killing hope was used to keep people in need, fear and slavery. In the meantime Uncle Sam was 'supervising' coups d'etat, assassinations, terror and death squads all over Central and South America. Amen. Pope John Paul II talked a lot about love but always kept strongly the Church against divorce, abortion (even in case of rape, serious diseases of the unborn child or grave danger for the mother's life), use of contraception (in times of HIV/AIDS and overpopulation), homosexuality, ordination of women as priests... It's not the Church that should conform to the world, he used to say, but the world that should conform to the Church. Amen. Gabriele Zamparini <http://TheCatsDream.com/Blog>http://TheCatsDream.com/Blog *** Privacy Policy: You are receiving this e-mail because you joined The Cat's Dream e-mailing list, or you ordered the documentary "XXI CENTURY" or have had some other kind of contacts with The Cat's Dream. If you don't want to receive e-mails from us, please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE on the subject. Thank you.
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