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Be Alert: Pope Francis I
HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM
We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed
- Jeremiah 51:9
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Habemus Papam Franciscum
|  THE FIRSTPLUMBLINE - By John Hayworth - March 14, 2013
Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, Bishop of Buenos Aires since 1998, and former head of the Argentine Jesuit Order, has just been elected as the new Pope of the Catholic Church. He will be known as Pope Francis I.
Hopes are high within the Hierachy of the RCC that the election of Bishop Bergoglio will draw a line under decades of scandal that have dogged the RCC for decades. It is believed that the new Pope will bring about change, a new role for women and a greater concern for the poor which have been a feature of Bishop Bergoglio's own work in Buenos Aires, but also the work of the new Pope's own namesake St. Francis of Assissi. It is also hope that he will change the RCC's stance on contraception.
Argentina has not escaped the scandal of Priest abuse. In 2002 Argentina was rocked by the news of one of the country's most senior churchmen, Archbishop Edgardo Gabriel Storni, being implicated in the sexual abuse of minors which casused the Archbishop to resign. For decades there had been rumors circulating about the Archbishop and after the publication of a book by journalist Olga Warnot "Nuestra Santa Madre" (our Holy Mother) these rumors became public knowledge. For those who read Spanish a copy of the entire book can be read at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32284888/Olga-Wornat-Nuestra-Santa-Madre-Historia-publica-y-privada-de-la-Iglesia-Catolica-Argentina
The Vatican investigated the rumors in 1994 however its findings had not been published. One elderly priest who criticized Storni was threatened with death by a group of curates from the Archbishops office if he did not recant his allegations.
It is quite obvious that the RCC, both in Argentina AND the Vatican, not only kept silent over the issue but gave protection to the Archbishop-which implicates the then Pope John Paul II and the Bishops of Argentina also.
It is difficult to believe that Cardinal Bergoglio had no knowledge of the Storni affair!
For more information concerning the Scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in Argentina see:
http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories3/091502_argentina.htm
http://ipsnews2.wpengine.com/2002/09/argentina-sex-scandal-triggers-archbishops-resignation/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/9356711/Bishop-resigns-after-being-caught-cavorting-with-woman-on-beach.html
There are also concerns over Pope Francis�s own role during the years that Argentina was ruled over under its brutal Military Junta.
The Guardian newspaper reported:
As head of the Jesuit order from 1973 to 1979, Jorge Bergoglio - as the new pope was known until yesterday - was a member of the hierarachy during the period when the wider Catholic church backed the military government and called for their followers to be patriotic.
Bergoglio twice refused to testify in court about his role as head of the Jesuit order. When he eventually appeared in front of a judge in 2010, he was accused by lawyers of being evasive.
The main charge against Bergoglio involves the kidnapping of two Jesuit priests, Orland Yorio and Francisco Jalics, who were taken by Navy officers in May 1976 and held under inhumane conditions for the missionary work they conducted in the country's slums, a politically risky activity at the time.
His chief accuser is journalist Horacio Verbitsky, the author of a book on the church called "El Silencio" ("The Silence"), which claims that Bergoglio withdrew his order's protection from the two priests, effectively giving the military a green light for their abduction.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/14/pope-francis-argentina-military-junta
Will the new Pope make any real change in the RCC? Well the simple answer must be NO! The dogmas of the Institution that is the RCC will never be changed, they are considered essential for salvation and belief for all Roman Catholics around the world. The might be a few minor reforms and restructuring, a few minor concessions granted to the faithful but the core beliefs of this false church will remain intact.
Unedited :: Link to Original Posting
http://thefirstplumbline.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/habemus-papam-franciscum/
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Pope Francis reaches out to Jews
| ASSOCIATED PRESS - By Karl Ritter - March 15, 2013
VATICAN CITY -- Like his predecessor, Pope Francis reached out to Rome's Jewish community at the very start of his pontificate, pledging to continue to strengthen the increasingly close ties between Catholics and Jews.
Just hours after he was elected the first non-European pope in history, Francis sent a letter to Rome's chief rabbi Riccardo di Segni, saying he hoped to "contribute to the progress that relations between Jews and Catholics" have seen since the 1962-1965 Second Vatican Council.
Jewish leaders welcomed the election of a pontiff seen as an ally when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires. Israeli President Shimon Peres said Francis would be a "welcome guest in the Holy Land" while Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, said the new pope "always had an open ear for our concerns."
"By choosing such an experienced man, someone who is known for his open-mindedness, the cardinals have sent an important signal to the world," Lauder said. "I am sure that Pope Francis I will continue to be a man of dialogue, a man who is able to build bridges with other faiths."
Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, as he was known before he became pope, showed as Buenos Aires archbishop an inclination to expand interfaith outreach to Islam and Judaism, and made efforts to further close the nearly 1,000-year estrangement with the Orthodox churches.
He was widely praised for his aid to Buenos Aires' Jewish community following the 1994 bombing of a Jewish Center that killed 85 people. Iran has been blamed for the attack, but denied any links. A joint Argentine-Iranian "truth commission" is studying the evidence.
"We hope that his word and his example contribute to the achievement of harmony brotherhood and peace among all peoples," the Italian Rabbinical Assembly said, pledging to do its part to foster dialogue between Jews and Catholics "with mutual respect for their respective identities."
Francis' predecessors, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, worked toward reconciliation between Catholics and Jews during their papacies.
Benedict's first official act as pope was a letter to Rome's Jewish community and he became the second pope in history, after John Paul, to enter a synagogue. However, he met harsh criticism when he lifted the excommunication of a bishop who turned out to be a Holocaust-denier.
Lauder said the World Jewish Congress, which represents Jewish communities in 100 countries, is convinced that Francis will "speak out against all forms of anti-Semitism both within and without the Catholic Church, that he will take action against clerics who deny or belittle the Holocaust and that he will strengthen the Vatican's relations with Israel."
Unedited :: Link to Original Posting
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-francis-reaches-jews-18736726
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