The Pope canonized Sister Sweet with the bitterness of …

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From Brasilia to the Vatican: part of the Brazilian political class went this weekend to Rome where Pope Francis canonized Sister Sweet. Presidents of the Senate, deputies and the Federal Supreme Court, as well as dozens of members of the Congress, mainly from the Workers' Party (PT), attended today's Mass in the Holy Square. Pierre. Some will stay this week to attend the proceedings. of the synod of the Amazon.

By questioning Luiz Inacio's prison Lula da Lula, rejecting the coup against Dilma and opposing barbarism in the rainforest, Jorge Bergoglio has become an ally of democratic resistance against Jair Bolsonaro . Instead of traveling to Rome for canonization, the former captain-president chose to sponsor a meeting of CPAC, the far right and American, in São Paulo. (Conservative Action Political Conference), during which "red tyranny" was insulted who took the Vatican into account in order to "impose" the theology of liberation.

"It makes sense for the discomfort of these far right groups against a pope attached to the poor and to democracy," says Gilberto Carvalho at the PT offices where he spoke. Page I12 for more than an hour last friday.

After his circus performance at the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, after attacking the natives and denying the fire in the Amazon, Bolsonaro suffered a political defeat on Sunday at the Holy See, where he died. There was virtually no representative of the ruling party, except the vice-president, General Hamilton Mourao.

The government is dissatisfied with the Vatican and the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), to such an extent that it has ordered espionage in the preparatory assemblies of the Synod which will continue until October 27th.

A former seminarian, Gilberto Carvalho was the interlocutor between the Petros governments (2003-2016) and the Vatican. It is currently the bridge between Lula and Bergoglio.

No other Petista leader has likely held key positions at Planalto Palace as long as he graduated in philosophy, affable and cult. That when he talks with the former president, he says "Lulinha".

He worked in a nearby Lula office in Planalto between 2003 and 2010. He then held the position of Secretary General of Dilma Rousseff's Presidency until January 2015.

A few months ago, he went to Rome with a letter from the political prisoner of the Federal Police in Curitiba, addressed to the pontiff.

"The whole of the gestures that the pope had to Lula was extraordinary, he sent a letter to Lula to tell him that the truth would prevail", for me, the pope did everything that a leader of State can do, it was really supergenerous, we have immense gratitude to him. "

"The conservative weight is still strong in the National Bishops' Conference, the wave of renewal born in Rome has not yet arrived (…) This does not prevent a clear majority of the Conference from favoring the freedom of Lula ".

"The opposition to Bolsonaro is clear on the part of the CNBB, because even the most right-wing members have confirmed the drama that a city has been experiencing for a few years – this comes from the coup d'etat, but it's not the same. has been deepened since last January – they have destroyed a network of policies implemented by our governments, consisting of My house, My life, Prouni (modest scholarships), the Bolsa Familia, through of a cruel neoliberal policy. "

"The pope had a wise policy in the appointment of new bishops, in order to strengthen the progressive currents, for him Brazil is very important", that is why he chose to make his first international tour in Rio de Janeiro in July 2013, four months later to be inducted.

Francisco's diplomacy was not inaugurated with Lula, he gave continuity to what he had maintained with Dilma.

"The pope sent him two letters of solidarity against the coup d'etat, one was made public and the other was private, the latter had very affectionate expressions." The relationship was excellent. "

"Among them, there was a passion at first sight (laughter), Dilma was in Rome in March 2013 when Bergoglio said:" I will be the first Argentine and Peronist pope ", was delighted with this sentence and his personality".

Geopolitics and faith

Francisco unleashes the wrath of groups like Tradition, Family and Property or the Institute Plinio Correia de Oliveira who organized in Rome a seminar to sabotage the Synod, which had among its speakers one of the heirs of the Portuguese imperial house, Prince Bertrand Braganza de Orleans who exegete "conquest and evangelization of indigenous Catholics" and fanned the "paganism" of the Pastoral Commission of the Earth (CMP) and the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), related to the Conference of Bishops .

Orleans de Bragança, in addition to defending the return of the monarchy, is an admirer of the American cardinal Edward Burque, one of the most influential antipapists in the world. Both consider "heresies" as an authorization for married men to be ordained in the Amazon.

"The Pope, with great courage, chose to confront these ultraconservative groups and, for the first time in the history of the Church, he began to talk about the order of the married men, in Latin the "Viri Probati", men of reputation Honestly, I do not know if this will be approved in the Synod, there is a lot of pressure against it, "said Carvalho.

"The Synod's first challenge is to update the Church in the Amazon for the growth of evangelicals.It is quite possible that today, there are already more evangelical Indians than If neopentecostal growth continues, it is expected that by 2030 all of Brazil will have the same number of Catholics and neo-centrists, "he added.

In the Synod, there is a dispute of extraordinary proportions, religious and geopolitical, that the Jesuit Bergoglio decided to continue even at the risk of schism.

"It is only with the ordination of married men that penetration and economic evangelism can be thwarted." Is US money being used in all of this? "I have no doubt," says Carvalho.