Vatican, the Peronist origins of Pope Bergoglio

The crucifix with the scythe and the hammer a gift from Evo Morales, the cover of the Economist who stated that the Pope speaks like Lenin and the Pope, brought up, who first defends himself. Last time he did it last week. "I say the same things as John Paul II, but they accuse me of being a communist." Now, however, in Argentina a book has come out that traces the ideological roots to which the young Mario Jorge Bergoglio drew. "Pope Francis is more of a Peronist than a communist. It is a mistake to put it in the Marxist ideology. If Peron were still alive, he would first say that it is Peron that is Franceschista ».

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Aldo DuzdevichAs a lawyer and a well-established Argentine student as a student, he was part of the guerrilla militating in the Montoneros terrorist movement during the years of the coup, he has few doubts about the ideological foundations that can be found in the preaching of the Pope. his last book entitled Salvados por Francisco, a dense volume of unpublished stories and details relating to the action carried out by the very young Jesuit in a violent Argentina. "He was a priest who risked himself to help the dictatorship's persecuted. There is evidence, testimony, evidence from former Montonero militants. Many today if they are alive they owe it to what Bergoglio has done for them ».

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For example, the writer tells the priest, one of them, the cure, did not hesitate to lend him a priestly habit and documents to get him to the border and cross the border. The Pope thanked Duzdevich for refreshing his memory, given that so many details had almost forgotten them over time, but then reading the testimonies, the images of those moments full of tension appeared again in front of him. There was danger in it. There was not much time to waste and if you wanted to protect students, trade unionists, professors in the crosshairs of repression you should not linger. They were taken and taken away, tortured, others disappeared.

The author lists to the Messenger the possible assonances between the theological position of Francis and Peronism. "Peron was clear that he could advance on three pillars, social justice, economic independence and political sovereignty. He also knew that in order to seek a broader consensus he had to elaborate proposals close to the Church on the theme of social justice, on the search for peace based on love of neighbor. Peron has always used elements of the social doctrine of the Church ».

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Eduardo Horacio Garcia, for example, considered close to Bergoglio, last year in a homily explained that Peron's position is a proposal that overcomes all existing ideologies because it is fed to social doctrine. Hence its universal value ". When Bergoglio was a boy he took part in the Catholic Action and was a spectator of the immense conflict between nascent Peronism and the most conservative part of ecclesial authority.

He subsequently had significant constraints with a series of Argentine and Uruguayan thinkers including his friend Amelia Podetti who offered him a complex and attractive view of Liberation Theology with the preferential option for the poor and the terminology related to the people. According to Aldo Duzdevich the apostolic exhortation Evangeli Gaudium develops precisely this direction and in some points (222-237) we speak of analogous concepts, «especially when it refers to the processes for change that exceed space and time, or that to the fact that unity prevails over any conflict, and that reality is much more important than an idea and that the whole is superior to one part ". Even the farewell phrase that Bergoglio loves so much when he greets the crowd or groups of faithful, please pray for me, it seems the same as Peron said to the guests who took leave of him.

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