Reuters and other mainstream media outlets have reported that Pope Francis has recently stated "journalism based on gossip or rumors is a form of "terrorism". The Pope went on to say that this "terrorism" was "even more true for journalists because their voice can reach everyone and this is a very powerful weapon." Pope Francis should write articles and start his own podcast/radio show. His efforts at real journalism should lead us all by his shining example.
As stand-alone statements, the Pope's warnings appear somewhat reasonable. However, over the recent months, there has been a coordinated, massive crackdown on independent journalists attempting to expose dominate, overreaching power structures. In the failed state of Venezuela, where the government called a state of emergency, journalists are being targeted by the military for rightly exposing the dictator-like activity of their President Maduro. In the US, a string of media censorship has been ongoing as journalists push to spotlight corrupt government agencies, questionable government employees or simply for speaking their minds on syndicated radio shows.
As the Pope continues to stick his nose into politics and journalism he will continue to open himself, his church and the Vatican's shortcomings to global journalists, investigators and researchers again.
RECENT VATICAN SHORTCOMINGS
The Vatican has a long and despicable past of pedophilia and child abuse that has been continually covered up. In fact, Pope Francis's early attempt at transparent public relations appears to have failed in dealing with the generational, internal scandals. His Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has turned out to be nothing more than a placeholder to provide cover for business as usual at the Vatican. When an organization has to set up a separate, intergovernmental body to protect kids from child abuse within that organization, there is a major problem. According to the reporting PRI.org "A member of a commission set up by Pope Francis to advise him on child abuse says the group is a “token body” exercising in “smoke and mirrors” that won’t help children stay safe from abusive priests. Peter Saunders, the commission member, is now on a leave of absence as he considers whether to continue with an effort he says he has lost faith in. Meanwhile, new Catholic bishops are still being taught they’re not obliged to report cases of child abuse by priests to the police."
THE HISTORY OF POPE FRANCIS
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, know now as Pope Francis, was a documented co-conspirator in torture, abduction and terror committed by the Argentinian military in the late 1970's. He denounced [sold out] countless catholic priests, nuns, and his own Jesuit people. Steve Pieczenik, who was US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the time, worked directly against Cardinal Bergoglio/Pope Francis and the Argentinian military junta writes the following about the current Pope:
"A man who fails to act at a Christian existential moment of truth to save his Catholic brothers and sisters of the cloth has lost all rights to make any pronouncements other than to beg forgiveness from those saintly people who gave their lives in that awful Argentinian military dictatorship in the late 1980’s. This poseur of poverty, Pope Francis, who supposedly embraces the presumed bottom of society; nevertheless rides in a multi-million dollar jet; a glass encased Bat Mobile; and lives in the Vatican, a city replete with corruption, pedophilia and homosexuality."
Horacio Verbitsky, journalist for the newspaper Página/12, covered Pope Francis's collaboration with the Argentinean military junta in his book El Silenco (The Silence). Verbitsky gave an interview with Democracy Now's Amy Goodman titled Pope Francis' Junta Past: Argentine Journalist on New Pontiff's Ties to Abduction of Jesuit Priests in which he describes in greater detail how Bergoglio took part in the capture (that led to the torture) of two of his own Jesuit priests.
As stand-alone statements, the Pope's warnings appear somewhat reasonable. However, over the recent months, there has been a coordinated, massive crackdown on independent journalists attempting to expose dominate, overreaching power structures. In the failed state of Venezuela, where the government called a state of emergency, journalists are being targeted by the military for rightly exposing the dictator-like activity of their President Maduro. In the US, a string of media censorship has been ongoing as journalists push to spotlight corrupt government agencies, questionable government employees or simply for speaking their minds on syndicated radio shows.
As the Pope continues to stick his nose into politics and journalism he will continue to open himself, his church and the Vatican's shortcomings to global journalists, investigators and researchers again.
RECENT VATICAN SHORTCOMINGS
The Vatican has a long and despicable past of pedophilia and child abuse that has been continually covered up. In fact, Pope Francis's early attempt at transparent public relations appears to have failed in dealing with the generational, internal scandals. His Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has turned out to be nothing more than a placeholder to provide cover for business as usual at the Vatican. When an organization has to set up a separate, intergovernmental body to protect kids from child abuse within that organization, there is a major problem. According to the reporting PRI.org "A member of a commission set up by Pope Francis to advise him on child abuse says the group is a “token body” exercising in “smoke and mirrors” that won’t help children stay safe from abusive priests. Peter Saunders, the commission member, is now on a leave of absence as he considers whether to continue with an effort he says he has lost faith in. Meanwhile, new Catholic bishops are still being taught they’re not obliged to report cases of child abuse by priests to the police."
THE HISTORY OF POPE FRANCIS
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, know now as Pope Francis, was a documented co-conspirator in torture, abduction and terror committed by the Argentinian military in the late 1970's. He denounced [sold out] countless catholic priests, nuns, and his own Jesuit people. Steve Pieczenik, who was US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the time, worked directly against Cardinal Bergoglio/Pope Francis and the Argentinian military junta writes the following about the current Pope:
"A man who fails to act at a Christian existential moment of truth to save his Catholic brothers and sisters of the cloth has lost all rights to make any pronouncements other than to beg forgiveness from those saintly people who gave their lives in that awful Argentinian military dictatorship in the late 1980’s. This poseur of poverty, Pope Francis, who supposedly embraces the presumed bottom of society; nevertheless rides in a multi-million dollar jet; a glass encased Bat Mobile; and lives in the Vatican, a city replete with corruption, pedophilia and homosexuality."
Horacio Verbitsky, journalist for the newspaper Página/12, covered Pope Francis's collaboration with the Argentinean military junta in his book El Silenco (The Silence). Verbitsky gave an interview with Democracy Now's Amy Goodman titled Pope Francis' Junta Past: Argentine Journalist on New Pontiff's Ties to Abduction of Jesuit Priests in which he describes in greater detail how Bergoglio took part in the capture (that led to the torture) of two of his own Jesuit priests.
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