He said he supported their efforts to obtain “so elementary and undeniably necessary a right as that of the three “L’s”: land, lodging and labor”.
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Bolivia’s President Evo Morales gives an interview on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ visit in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Friday, July 10, 2015. He was executed in Bolivia in 1967 by CIA-backed Bolivian troops.
“And yet, while working for this, we should not think that everything is lost”, the pope added.
“This system is by now intolerable: farm workers find it intolerable, laborers find it intolerable, communities find it intolerable, peoples find it intolerable …”
The Vatican didn’t say what Francis was doing with the crucifix.
The tone of the trip was so in line with the region’s left-wing, anti-American regimes that President Evo Morales might be forgiven for thinking His Holiness would actually like the tacky gift he presented him with in Bolivia: a blasphemous sculpture of Christ crucified on a hammer and sickle, the emblem of communism and its 100 million dead.
Pope Francis will make his first visit to the United States in September.
“To pass by without hearing the pain of our people, without sinking roots into their lives and into their world is like listening to the word of God without letting it take root and bear fruit in our hearts”, he said.
“The new colonialism takes on different faces”. He urged for a new economic world order and called on humanity to save the planet from being destroyed by unfettered greed. But where there was sin, and there was plenty of sin, there was also an abundant grace increased by the men who defended indigenous peoples.
“Andrew Stuttaford at National Review writes that this is not the first time Pope Francis has made statements with “traces of conspiracism”…in his use of the phrase “anonymous influence” and the suggestion of dark works by “corporations” and ‘loan agencies.'”. The prison is open for the most part, families say, with an economy of shops, services and food spots set up; the wives and children of some inmates live on the inside.
The pope listened intently as three inmates described the nightmarish reality that they and thousands of others experience: not knowing how long one is going to be incarcerated; not having access to any sort of rehabilitation programs; exposed to violence and corruption; forced to sleep on floors.
In his opening remarks in Paraguay, Pope Francis is giving special praise to Paraguayan women. He said corporate greed has imposed a mentality of “profit at any price” with no concern for destruction of nature.
“I ask you, please, to keep praying for me, because I too have my mistakes and I too must do penance”, he said. “This system is by now intolerable”.
“We were proud to provide one of our restaurants”.
Native Americans contend Serra brutally converted indigenous people to Christianity, wiping out villages in the process, and have opposed his canonization. Around 4800 men and women, one-third of all Bolivian prisoners are housed there. “On the other, I would say that there has been a purification in the motives” of those entering. It is important, it is well worth fighting for them.
Housewife Eladia Olmedo said the pope has already changed Paraguay: “They fixed the streets, they cleaned things up”.
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He also committed himself to a full apology to the indigenous peoples of Latin America, who suffered centuries of violent oppression at the hands of European-descended elites.
