Idk 100%. But he excommunicated Romero or at least the more radical liberation thoelogians (Romero was a moderate), and in general did whatever he could to signal to the contras and those like them that Rome had their back.
Yeah and if you dont wanna put that on him as obviously he was a child, he sure carried on what they taught him.
John Paul also beatified Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, the leading Croatian cleric who welcomed the Nazi and fascist Ustashi takeover of Croatia during World War II. Stepinac sat in the Ustashi parliament, appeared at numerous public events with top ranking Nazis and Ustashi, and openly supported the Croatian fascist regime.
Exactly. For some that past informed them to be significantly against fascism in the future, it haunted them, for others like JP2, it served as inspiration
The first Parenti I ever read
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2007/10/22/mother-teresa-john-paul-ii-and-fast-track-saints
In John Paul's celestial pantheon, reactionaries had a better chance at canonization than reformers. Consider his treatment of Archbishop Oscar Romero who spoke against the injustices and oppressions suffered by the impoverished populace of El Salvador and for this was assassinated by a right-wing death squad. John Paul never denounced the killing or its perpetrators, calling it only "tragic." In fact, just weeks before Romero was murdered, high-ranking officials of the Arena party, the legal arm of the death squads, sent a well-received delegation to the Vatican to complain of Romero's public statements on behalf of the poor.
Romero was thought by many poor Salvadorans to be something of a saint, but John Paul attempted to ban any discussion of his beatification for fifty years. Popular pressure from El Salvador caused the Vatican to cut the delay to twenty-five years. In either case, Romero was consigned to the slow track.
Idk 100%. But he excommunicated Romero or at least the more radical liberation thoelogians (Romero was a moderate), and in general did whatever he could to signal to the contras and those like them that Rome had their back.
JP2 was a fascist POS.
Good lord, I knew he by default had to be a filofascist piece of shit, but never knew it was this bad.
he was in the Hitler youth as a teenager too
Yeah and if you dont wanna put that on him as obviously he was a child, he sure carried on what they taught him.
he was a child but it's an aspect of his past that helps explain the man he became
Exactly. For some that past informed them to be significantly against fascism in the future, it haunted them, for others like JP2, it served as inspiration
The first Parenti I ever read https://www.commondreams.org/views/2007/10/22/mother-teresa-john-paul-ii-and-fast-track-saints
The village JP2 was from literally mythologised an anticommunist bandit as a robin hood figure