Pope Francis Encourages Communist Groups as “Veritable Invisible Army”

 

The Lepanto Institute released a new video report, exposing the celebration and promotion of militant communists in a Vatican event initiated by Pope Francis. The report focuses on the organizations and speakers that were celebrated in a video produced by the Vatican for the fourth annual World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM).

According to the WMPM website, the purpose of the meeting "is to create an 'encounter' between Church leadership and grassroots organizations working to address the 'economy of exclusion and inequality' by working for structural changes that promote social, economic and racial justice." But many of the organizations participating in the meeting are self-avowed militant Communists. “A woman named Ceres Hadich, representing a Brazilian organization called Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), shows up in the Vatican video at around 14 minutes,” said Michael Hichborn, president of the Lepanto Institute. “We have video of Hadich, just a few months before the WMPM, doing a family read-aloud of the Communist Manifesto, with the communist hymn called the Internationale playing in the background while the MST flag hangs on the wall behind them! We also found hundreds of posts and articles by MST celebrating Karl Marx and calling for a communist revolution!” The Lepanto Institute also exposed the Vatican’s inclusion of Luca Casrini, who heads the organization called Mediterranea Saving Humans. Casarini is a long-time Marxist agitator and activist who once headed the Tute Bianche movement, which infamously engaged in violent clashes with Italian police during the G8 summit in 2001. During that clash, Casarini (whose facebook page is littered with communist organizations) issued a “declaration of war” against G8 participants. Other organizations given a spotlight in the Vatican’s video, exposed by the Lepanto Institute for openly working toward Communist revolution are StreetNet International and Slum Dwellers International. “Perhaps the most shocking thing we discovered in producing this report is Pope Francis’ admission to having examined the documents and speeches of these individuals and organizations, while he sings their praises and encourages them to continue on,” said Hichborn. In a video speech to the participants in the WMPM, Pope Francis praised them as a “veritable invisible army” with “the future of humanity in great measure in [their] own hands.” Addressing the question of what these self-professed Marxists should be doing, Pope Francis said that "some concrete measures that may allow for significant changes," are "present in your documents, in your speeches, and I have taken them very much into account; I have reflected on them and consulted specialists."

Responding Pope Francis’ speech, Hichborn said, “Pope Francis removed all plausible deniability that these organizations are acolytes of Karl Marx, working toward Communist revolution by admitting that he reviewed their documents and speeches. We also reviewed their documents and speeches, and it is clear even to the casual observer that they are Communists. It is both shocking and horrifying for the man sitting on the Chair of Peter to encourage organizations working for Communist revolution to follow their own ideas for ‘significant change.’”

Did Communists Insert Sinners Into Seminaries?

This sermon is the clearest, most powerful explanation you will ever hear of evil in the world, of the corruption of the Church, and indeed, of the demonic forces which currently hold the Church captive at the highest level.

HRH Prince Bertrand of Orleans-Braganza Writes to Pope, Perplexed by Reception of Communists in Vatican

Quo vadis, Domine? Reverent and Filial Message to His Holiness Pope Francis from Prince Bertrand of Orleans-Braganza 

HRH Prince Bertrand of Orleans-Braganza

From the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property 

Editors Note: Activists from movements that obstinately and violently subvert private property were recently invited to attend meetings with important organizations of the Holy See. One of these activists was actually received by the Pontiff himself. In face of these and other developments, Prince Bertrand of Orleans-Braganza expressed his perplexity and concern in a reverent and filial letter to Pope Francis.

Fully cognizant of what a communist South America will mean for the United States and the world, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property--TFP translated Prince Bertrand's Open Letter and is making it available to the general public.

I address Your Holiness in my twofold capacity as Prince of the Imperial House of Brazil and an active participant in the public life of my country to express a serious concern about the Catholic cause in Brazil and in South America in general.

Brazilians are largely aware that it was thanks to the entreaties of Pope Leo XIII, and in spite of the serious political drawbacks that such a decision would entail, that my great grandmother, Princess Isabel, Regent of the Empire, signed the Golden Law, on May 13, 1888, definitively abolishing slavery in Brazil. That action cost her the throne, but earned her the title of “the Redemptrix” in Brazilian history; and for it she received a Golden Rose from the Pope as a reward for her selflessness in favor of social harmony and the rights of the underprivileged.

Moved by the same sense of justice and dedication to the common good as my ancestors, I am honored to have founded and assisted for these last ten years the Peace in the Countryside campaign,^[1] promoting social harmony in Brazilian agriculture. This task is all the more necessary since the country’s rural areas have been thrown into convulsion over the last few decades by a series of land invasions, attacks, destruction of crops, confiscatory expropriations, outlandish environmental requirements, and legal insecurity.

At the core of this agrarian agitation—which is the main obstacle to the full development of Brazilian agriculture and cattle ranching, responsible for 37% of Brazil’s jobs^[2] and about half of all new jobs in the first semester of 2013^[3]—are found the Landless Workers Movement, better known by its Portuguese acronym, MST, and the international organization, La Via Campesina.

1. MST National Leader Uses Vatican Seminar as a Podium to Instigate Class Struggle

For this reason, it was with consternation that I learned that the Pontifical Academy of Sciences invited Mr. João Pedro Stédile, MST national coordinator and representative of Via Campesina, to participate as an observer in its seminar on The Emergence of the Socially Excluded, which was held in Rome on December 5, 2013, and with travel expenses paid for by the Vatican, as the beneficiary himself acknowledged.

João Pedro Stédile, MST national coordinator and representative of Via Campesina.

This consternation has spread in Catholic circles, since the well-known MST agitator used the event as a tribune to promote his erroneous principles and false solutions based on the Marxist premise of class struggle and on the utopia of a collectivist society, a clearly foreseeable fact.

Indeed, just two days after the symposium was held on Vatican premises, Mr. Stédile addressed activists from the ultra-leftist Italian Altermondialista movement, in a vacant theater building they have occupied in Rome. In his talk, reproduced by the Adista News Agency,^[4] he boasted about his illegal methods. He acknowledged that “the institutional path to change appears decisively blocked,” and that, “all that the MST has conquered over its 30-year life is due to the practice of mass occupations,” in other words, the systematic violation of private property in the countryside.

According to Stédile, the MST’s need to use illegal means stems from the fact that “in the present historic context the balance of forces on the level of class struggle is quite unfavorable to the working classes”—that is to say, unfavorable to the leftist movements that usurp worker representation.

Stédile even admits that “the world lives a period of reflux of the mass movement” that affects the MST itself because “the conditions for class struggle have become more difficult: the masses have perceived the impossibility of a victory and are turning back.”

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It Takes Heroic Poland – And the Truth About Katyn – To Show Us How Evil Communism Is

From The Telegraph
By Ed West

I'm an unashamed Polonophile. If you grew up in a certain kind of Irish-British Catholic household in the 1980s, Poland was a heroic and tragic fairytale kingdom that, having endured the neo-pagan Nazis, was now held captive by the godless Soviets – and yet maintained its faith, chivarly and honour. 

Diana West - American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character

In "American Betrayal", Diana West argues that -- current policies today notwithstanding -- America began to abandon its core ideals and march toward Socialism nearly 75 years ago. Starting in the late 1930s, at the time of FDR, the Soviets were already in a position to take advantage of the many communist sympathizers in the U.S. Not only FDR, but also Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and those in their inner circles played roles in enabling the U.S.S.R. as well as concealing the massive Moscow-directed penetration of American society. West shows that the system of spies designed to denigrate the American way of life was deep and extensive.

Has the Bell Begun to Toll for China?

By Patrick J. Buchanan

“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and convictions wavered,” China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, told a closed meeting of party elite in Guangdong province.

“Finally all it took was one quiet word from Gorbachev to declare the dissolution of the Soviet Communist Party, and a great party was gone,” said Xi, according to notes obtained by The New York Times.

The Revolutionary Communist Party's Little Yellow Book

"The Socialist Constitution is a disturbing read, breathtaking in the brutality of the totalitarian measures proposed, a trip down the rabbit hole of the twisted American Communist mind."

From American Thinker

By Peter Wilson

Four days after the first occupiers arrived on Wall Street in September, the Harvard Crimson student newspaper offered editorial space to a Maoist fringe group called the Revolutionary Communist Party. The article by RCP spokesman Ray Lotta urged replacing the U.S. Constitution with the Constitution of the New Socialist Republic in North America, which has been published as a 91-page book with a yellow cover.

The RCP is not an underground organization. RCP Chairman Bob Avakian, the author of the Constitution, is in exile in Paris, but the RCP openly operates Revolution Bookstores in sixteen American cities, including Cambridge, Berkeley, New York, and Seattle, and is the publisher of Revolution magazine. Recently they were involved in creating the radical organizations Not in our Name and World Can't Wait, and according to Discover the Networks, the RCP played an instrumental role in sparking the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

AGENDA: Grinding America Down

The DVD with a chilling message

Ted Baehr, editor of Movieguide has called AGENDA: Grinding America Down "the most powerful expose of the communist, socialist, progressive attempt to take over America produced so far." It is the story of our illegitimate, Marxist president and his fellow travelers. It is the story of how America is being undermined through its educational system and popular culture. It is a chilling look at the reality of what has befallen our country.

The full video is available from WorldNetDaily, which in our opinion has done more than any  publication to expose the evil ones that now occupy  America's highest offices.  The following is a trailer:

US Author Cites New Evidence of Communism's 'War' with the Church

From Catholic News Service
By John Thavis

That Pope John Paul II was a pivotal figure in the fall of European communism is accepted as a truism, but many details of that drama have remained hidden in archives.

A U.S. biographer of the late pope has now provided particulars of what he describes as the full-scale war by communism against the Catholic Church, and Pope John Paul's astute and successful counter-strategy.

The Polish pope displayed political savvy and "a shrewdness that combined steadiness of strategic vision with tactical flexibility," George Weigel told an audience of seminarians, diplomats and Vatican officials at the Pontifical North American College Jan. 9.

One of Pope John Paul's moves, Weigel said, was to appoint as his own secretary of state Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, the architect of the Vatican's "Ostpolitik" efforts to reach workable compromises with communist regimes.

By doing so, the late pope "created tactical advantages for the church: As the pope preached moral revolution over the heads of communist regimes, speaking directly to their people, Casaroli continued his diplomacy, thus denying the communists the opportunity to charge that the church had reneged on its commitment to dialogue," Weigel said.

Proud Obamunists at the Left-Wing Rally in Washington

Obama's End Game Revealed

Outed! Congresswoman Member of Socialist Group

President Obama also closely tied to Marxist-oriented organization


From WorldNetDaily

By Aaron Klein

Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Ohio, was listed as a member of a U.S.-based socialist organization, it has emerged.

President Obama himself has been closely tied to the same organization, the Marxist-oriented Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA.

Multiple editions of the socialist group's official newsletter, the Democratic Left, listed Kilroy as a DSA member in the 1990s and described how other DSA activists helped with her various campaigns. The newsletters were first posted online by Trevor Loudon of the New Zeal blog, a researcher of communism.

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Obama's 'Link to the Streets' Calls for Redistribution of Wealth

Al Sharpton: We won't have true social justice until everything is 'equal in everybody's house'

A Message from Dan Margolis, Chair of the Communist Party in New York

"The 2008 election of Barack Obama, and now his presidency, are perhaps the biggest continuation of that (revolutionary) spirit in a generation. So take a moment to relax and celebrate with family and friends all that we've achieved so far -- and all the victories to come, up to and including a socialist USA. And let's recommit ourselves to the struggle. We're on better terrain than we've been on for any 4th of July in decades."

Dan Margolis, Chairman, Communist Party of New York

People's Weekly World, Chicago, Illinois, July 4, 2009

From Peoples Weekly World

The following is from an e-mail by Dan Margolis, chair of the Communist Party in New York, celebrating our unique U.S. history of struggle and urging us to continue it this Fourth of July.


Dear friends,

Right now, I'm on a train from New York City, where the Battle of Brooklyn took place and our first capital, to Boston, land of the real Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, the shot heard around the world, Paul Revere and lots more.

Then I plan to go on to Worcester, my hometown, and, more importantly, the city where the first national convention for women's suffrage took place, and also an early hotbed of abolitionist activity.

Today is the 4th of July, so I can't help but to think of the historical importance of the events that took place in this part of our nation, as well as the rest of the American revolutionary tradition. I hope that you will pause, as I am doing, to reflect on our shared history, a history of struggle for what is just.

The American Revolution, though incomplete at first, was one of what Vladimir Lenin called some 100 years ago the three "truly great" revolutions in world history: The American, the French and the Russian. The Revolution established the first democratic republic.

It wasn't complete at first, but its importance can't be overstated, and it laid the basis for further struggles: the Civil War and end to slavery, the fight for women's rights, the formation of the Communist Party, the formation of the labor movement and the CIO, the Civil Rights revolution of the 1960s, the fight against fascism in the 30s and 40s, the fight against U.S. aggression in Vietnam, Korea and Iraq, the continued fight for immigrant rights, to name a few things, all continue the spirit of 1776.

The 2008 election of Barack Obama, and now his presidency, are perhaps the biggest continuation of that spirit in a generation.

So take a moment to relax and celebrate with family and friends all that we've achieved so far--and all the victories to come, up to and including a socialist USA.

And let's recommit ourselves to the struggle. We're on better terrain than we've been on for any 4th of July in decades. We can win the fight for public option health care (sign the petition below), the Employee Free Choice Act, and more.

Happy Independence Day!

Dan Margolis

1989 — Year of Miracles

From The Washington Times
By Lee Edwards

It was a year of triumph and tragedy. It was the year the Berlin Wall fell - and joyful Berliners drank champagne and danced on top of the Brandenburg Gate.

It was the year that Vaclav Havel was jailed in February for participating in human rights protests and was elected president of Czechoslovakia in December.

It was the year that the once-outlawed trade union Solidarity won an overwhelming victory in Poland - the Soviet bloc's first free elections in 40 years.

It was the year that Imre Nagy, who had led the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Soviet domination, was moved from an unmarked grave and given a hero's burial in Budapest.

It was the year that, after mass demonstrations in Bucharest, Romanian despot Nicolae Ceaucescu met his deserved fatal fate.

Communism, the dark tyranny that controlled more than 40 nations and claimed the lives of an estimated 100 million victims during the 20th century, suddenly collapsed in Eastern and Central Europe without a shot being fired.

In just two years - from 1989 to 1991 - the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union dissolved, and Marxism-Leninism was dumped on the ash heap of history. But, alas, not everywhere.

For 1989 was also the year that millions of pro-democracy Chinese demonstrated in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, challenging the authority of the communist leadership. Their six-week-long occupation of the square culminated in the erection in early June of a 33-foot replica of the Statue of Liberty, nicknamed the "Goddess of Democracy." Even as Western journalists were saying that "in the image contest, the big guys cannot win," the government was preparing for a contest it knew it could win - a contest of raw power.

Units of the People's Liberation Army launched their attack early Sunday morning, June 4. Tanks ran over tents, crushing protesters to death while soldiers fired their automatic weapons into the crowds in and around the square.

When the massacre was over, the Chinese government announced just 300 people were killed, most of them soldiers. Chinese authorities later lowered the figure to 200. But BBC and other Western media outlets estimated that as many as several thousand Chinese died during the several days of fighting. One student group cited Chinese Red Cross officials as saying there were an estimated 3,600 deaths.

There are other tragic anniversaries in 2009 that should be recognized.

It is the 50th anniversary of Fidel Castro seizing power in Cuba and establishing a totalitarian regime that still clings to power.

It is the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-von Ribbentrop Pact that triggered World War II with the Nazi invasion of Poland and the Soviet seizure of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

It is the 34th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the capture of South Vietnam by the communists.

This coming year, filled with the best and worst of human action, offers a special opportunity for governments, nongovernmental organizations and the general public to examine why communism collapsed so precipitously in Eastern and Central Europe and then the Soviet Union, and why it persists in China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea and Laos. The examination could affect how soon the 1.4 billion people who live under communism - and not by their choice - at last join their brothers and sisters in freedom.

Lee Edwards is Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation (heritage.org) and chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Why the Pilgrims Abandoned Communism

From Free Republic

Many have credited Karl Marx with inventing what we now know as communism in the middle of the 19th century. The concept of communal living and dependence, however, came long before The Communist Manifesto. Over the centuries, the concept has been applied by different people in different places. While the reasons for applying the communal approach varied as widely as the people who attempted it, one thing did remain constant: failure. From Roman latifundiae to the Soviet Union, communism time and again proved the failure inherent in its concept. Americans do not need to look to distant lands and little known peoples for evidence of the failure of communism. They simply need to look back at one of the most celebrated groups of people in their history: the Pilgrims.

As most educated Americans know, Puritan Separatists, or Pilgrims, landed in Massachusetts in 1620. What many don’t realize is that the original economic system of their colony, Plymouth Plantation, was a form of communism. There was neither private property nor division of labor. Food was grown for the town and distributed equally amongst all. The women who washed clothes and dressed meat did so for everyone and not just for their own families. This sounds like the perfect agrarian utopia envisioned by Marx and Lenin. What happened to it? To find the answer to that question, one must turn to Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford. Bradford served as Governor of Plymouth Colony from 1620 to 1647 and chronicled in great detail everything that happened in the colony.

By 1623, it was obvious the colony was barely producing enough corn to keep everyone alive. Fresh supplies from England were few and far between. Without some major change, the colony would face famine again. In his chronicle, Bradford described what was going wrong and how it was solved (pardon the King James English):

"All this while no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expect any. So they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery. At length, after much debate of things, the Governor (with the advise of the chiefest among them) gave way that they should set corn every man for his own particular, and in that regard trust to themselves; in all other things to go in the general way as before. And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of the number, for that end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some family. This had very good success, for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression."

With weak crops and little hope of supply, the Pilgrims divided the parcels among the families and told them to grow their own food. They found that those who would pretend they couldn’t work due to infirmity, weakness or inability (sound familiar?) gladly went to work in the fields. Corn production increased dramatically and famine was averted because communism was eliminated. Bradford’s account doesn’t end here; he goes on to describe why he believed the communal system failed. Understanding the reasons for the failure is just as important, if not more important, than learning about the failure itself. Governor Bradford wrote:

The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato’s and other ancients applauded by some of later times; that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God. For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For the young men, that were most able and fit for labour and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense. The strong, or man of parts, had no more division of victuals and clothes than he that was weak and not able to do a quarter than the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and equalized in labours, victuals, clothes, etc., with the meaner and younger sort, thought it some indignity and disrespect unto them. And for men’s wives to be commanded to do service for other men, as dressing their meat, washing their clothes, etc., they deemed it a kind of slavery, neither could many husbands well brook it.

The communal system failed because it treated the older and wiser the same way as the young and brash. It failed because it rewarded the less productive as much as the more productive. It failed because members of the community found that they could do less and still get the same benefit. All of these problems arose in a very religious community in which gluttony and laziness were considered sins and drunkenness was rare. How much more would communism fail in a larger society where such problems are rampant! By returning to a system in which the older and wiser are respected, and by reorganizing so that one’s benefit was directly tied to his production, the Pilgrims ensured the survival of their colony. Governor Bradford, however, ultimately attributes the failure of the “common cause” to something much deeper:

"Upon the point all being to have alike and to do alike, they thought themselves in the like condition, and one as good as another; and so, if it did not cut off those relations that God hath set amongst men, yet it did at least much diminish and take off the mutual respects that should be preserved amongst them. And would have been worse if they had been men of another condition. Let none object this is men’s corruption, and nothing to the course itself. I answer, seeing all men have this corruption in them, God in His wisdom saw another course fitter for them."

Governor Bradford is basically saying that communism failed because of the corrupt nature of humans. People are imperfect and sinful. The utopia Marx and Lenin dreamed of could only work if it were filled with perfect people- and no such infallible people can be found in this world. Furthermore, the communal system undermines the relations God instituted among men- marriage and family. With husbands growing food for other people’s children, wives washing other men’s clothes, and children doing chores for other families, the basic foundational social unit of society is undermined. Without that, no society can hope to survive.

Code Words for the Base?

Or do all the comrades speak like this?

OBAMA:

"I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here, but we’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to fight"

CHAIRMAN MAO:

"The ill wind of opportunism is falling, the righteous wind of socialism is on the rise.By the end of this year the victory of socialism will be greatly assured. Naturally there will be many struggles ahead and we must struggle hard.'