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> ... since the Brazilian coup of 1964, the churches have been pressed into opposition to subfascism, just as under #Nazism, as the last institutional refuge of the population against state terror and state-protected and state-sponsored exploitation. Initially, again in close analogy with Nazi experience, the coming into power of the #NationalSecurityState was greeted by the church in a country like Brazil with mixed feelings, and some positive expectations..[from] conservative church leaders.🧵
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> The Latin American churches have been unified and radicalized by subfascist terror and exploitation. They have learned by bitter experience the roots and consequences of these processes. The Church in Brazil now points out frequently and with great clarity and courage that the #NationalSecurityDoctrine is a cover for totalitarian violence against ordinary people and is a means of class warfare.
#ChomskyAndHerman in #PEHR
background for #PopeFrancis and #FratelliTutti
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> ... the dominant elements of the Catholic Church of Latin America were, and in important respects still are, quite conservative. It has been pushed into relatively unified and vigorous opposition against its desires and traditions, in large part by brutalities and injustice of a scale and severity that gave it no alternative.
#NoamChomsky in #WashingtonConnection
#CatholicChurch #LatinAmerica
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> The church-state struggle has become general.. throughout the expanding subfascist component of the empire. In #LatinAmerica.. the few countries that retain a democratic order has an open conflict failed to emerge. In.. dominant terror states, including #SouthKorea and the #Philippines the clergy is under attack and.. fighting back with the non-violent weapons at its disposal.. while the church increasingly calls for major social changes.. its efforts have been..[for].. human rights
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> Most sinister for the leaders of #subfascism is any sponsorship of organizational or self-help efforts that might give the underclasses not only a sense of personal dignity but also some notion that they have rights and might exercise some small modicum of power.
> The hostility of the #NationalSecurityStates to #ChurchSupport for the majority has reached the level of cooperative efforts at intimidation.
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> “... how can we accept a mentality that endorses torture and murder, that is so totally unchristian?” And a #ParaguayanPriest says that “the bishops are arriving at a point where they must choose between their people and the military...It isn’t a political choice between right and left but a humanitarian one.. conservative and liberal bishops are united in their opposition to.. #Stroessner’s regime.. the military vicar signed.. denouncing government repression.”
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> .. the churches resist without the huge resources of the state.. the government-controlled media.... physical coercion. On the international plane the churches also face the most formidable obstacle of all.. United States sponsorship and support for the National Security State... economic and military aid flows to the military juntas and the United States protects them diplomatically, economically and militarily.. against their own populations via #counterinsurgency and #Policeaid.
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> .. the National Security State is U.S.-sponsored.. -supported.. meets U.S. criteria... another... consequence: the mass media in the United States play down and essentially suppress the evidence of.. enormous inhumanities and institutionalized violence of these U.S. satellites. The trial of a single #SovietDissident, #AnatolShcharansky, received more newspaper space in 1978 than the several thousand official murders in #LatinAmerica..[and] the vast number of.. tortures.. dispossession.
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> Information on Latin American horrors is readily available from church and other sources.. but.. the sponsors of class warfare under subfascism are..[not] eager to focus attention on its victims.. as in the case of warfare in #Vietnam.. killing.. exploitation at a distance are best done by proxy or.. impersonal machinery, with eyes averted. The #FreeWorld establishment.. chooses to focus on movements of the “gross national product”.. without too much attention to who gets what and how.
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> “Very few are aware of the war the US waged against the Church after the heresy of Vatican II, seeking to return the Church to the Gospels for the first time since Emperor Constantine. You probably know that I’ve been writing about it for a long time. To closed ears, mostly.” Alas, it was a video of a lecture which Chomsky gave in 2009 which really awakened me to the reality of this war and its true nature.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/05/us-still-fighting-threat-of-liberation-theology/
#LiberationTheology #VaticanII
US Still Fighting “Threat” of Liberation Theology

The Wikileaks Revelations

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> #ManufacturingConsent, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman devote a chapter to the media’s unbalanced coverage of the murder of one priest in Poland in 1984 as compared to the coverage of the 72 religious killed throughout Latin America between 1964 and 1978, the killing of 23 religious in Guatemala between 1980 and 1985, the murder of #ArchbishopRomero of San Salvador in 1980 and the rape and murder of the 4 U.S. Church women in El Salvador in 1980..
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/21/the-u-s-empire-modern-day-christian-martyrs/
#ChomskyAndHerman
The U.S. Empire & Modern Day Christian Martyrs

80th Priest Killed in Colombia Since 1984

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> The Jesuits arose as a strong presence in defending the political and human rights of peasants, indigenous peoples and the urban poor.

In Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador Jesuits positioned themselves on the side of those who were persecuted by right wing military dictatorships. They did so at their own risk.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/20/can-even-god-forgive-jorge-mario-bergoglio/
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Can God Forgive Jorge Mario Bergoglio?

The Pope and the General: a CounterPunch Special Investigation

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> In El Salvador, Oscar Romero, who was trained in Jesuit philosophy, was a socially and politically conservative priest who experienced a conversion of sorts after being appointed Archbishop of San Salvador in the midst of an American supported counter-insurgency war.
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> it is up to the Pope Francis to allow the Holy Spirit to reconcile him to his new destiny. It is possible that in choosing the name Francis, Jorge Mario, had Father Francisco Jalics in mind as much as Saint Francis of Assisi. Perhaps, Franz (“Francisco”) Jalics is quite aware of that and the two are joined in mutual recognition of the terror that, each in his own way, they had suffered War.
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> Will Francis 1 have the courage to undo the harm of the previous two Pope’s who extinguished the hope that liberation theology priests and catechists like Francisco and Orlando, like #Bergoglio’s companheira, Esther Careaga Ballestrino, and the French missionary nuns brought into poor slums and rural villas?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/20/can-even-god-forgive-jorge-mario-bergoglio/
Can God Forgive Jorge Mario Bergoglio?

The Pope and the General: a CounterPunch Special Investigation

CounterPunch.org