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Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, a Venezuelan
Communist and Modernist, is carrying out Francis’s agenda.
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Understanding the adage that
personnel is policy, Pope Francis has been planting Marxists throughout the
Church, including at the top of the troubled religious order to which he
belongs. In 2016, the Jesuits, with the blessing of Pope Francis, installed as
its general superior a Venezuelan, Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, whose communist
convictions have long been known.
Sosa has written about the
“Marxist mediation of the Christian Faith,” arguing that the Church should
“understand the existence of Christians who simultaneously call themselves
Marxists and commit themselves to the transformation of the capitalist society
into a socialist society.” In 1989, he signed a letter praising Fidel Castro.
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| Francis and Sosa |
Turn down any corridor in
Francis’s Vatican, and you are likely to run into a de facto communist: Francis
has a communist running his order, a communist running his Council of Cardinals
(the Honduran cardinal, Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga), a communist running the
Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (Margaret Archer, a British sociologist
who has said that she represents the “Marxian left”), and communists such as
the renegade Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff and the Canadian socialist
Naomi Klein drafting his encyclicals.
It is no coincidence that the only
U.S. presidential candidate who made a visit to the Vatican during the campaign
was a socialist who had honeymooned in the Soviet Union. Bernie Sanders turned
up at the Vatican in April 2016, having received an invitation from Pope
Francis’s close Argentine friend, Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo.
“We invited the candidate who
cites the pope most in the campaign, and that is Senator Bernie Sanders,”
explained Sorondo, who added that Sanders’s agenda is “very analogous to that
of the pope.”
In this smug leftist atmosphere in
Rome, Sosa’s elevation to the head of the Jesuits was inevitable. In the past,
the Jesuits had been called the pope’s marines. Under Sosa, they are more like
the pope’s Marxists, peddling his climate-change propaganda as a pretext for
global socialism.
But Sosa’s ambitions, like Pope
Francis’s, go well beyond meddling in economies. He is also pushing a moral
revolution in the Church, evident in his astonishing claim that, since none of
the Apostles tape-recorded Jesus Christ, his words on adultery can be
elastically re-interpreted.
“You need to start by reflecting
on what exactly Jesus said,” Sosa told an Italian interviewer in February. “At
that time, no one had a tape recorder to capture the words. What we know is
that the words of Jesus have to be contextualized, they’re expressed in a
certain language, in a precise environment, and they’re addressed to someone
specific.”
In other words, Sosa is confident
that he understands Jesus’s meaning better than the Gospel writers. Like
Francis, Sosa can’t resist the mumbo-jumbo of Modernist biblical scholarship,
which always manages to dovetail conveniently with liberal views.
The Council of Trent explicitly
condemned the claim that the Gospel writers were just making stuff up when
recounting the words of Jesus Christ. But Sosa has no problem trafficking in
that heresy.
“Over the last century in the
Church there has been a great blossoming of studies that seek to understand
exactly what Jesus meant to say,” he said.
The presumption here is
extraordinary but typical of a Francis acolyte. The new orthodoxy is
heterodoxy, and Sosa is wallowing in it. He is given to little sermonettes on
relativism, such as this whopper:
“The Church has developed over the
centuries, it is not a piece of reinforced concrete. It was born, it has
learned, it has changed. This is why the ecumenical councils are held, to try
to bring developments of doctrine into focus. Doctrine is a word that I don’t
like very much, it brings with it the image of the hardness of stone. Instead
the human reality is much more nuanced, it is never black or white, it is in
continual development.”
Were St. Ignatius of Loyola alive
today, the order he founded wouldn’t ordain him, and he would have wondered how
a de facto Protestant ended up on the chair of St. Peter. Nor would St.
Ignatius have believed the sheer sophistry that now passes for theological
“sophistication” in his order.
Fr. Antonio Spadaro, another Jesuit
close to Pope Francis, tweeted out earlier this year this profundity: “Theology
is not #Mathematics. 2 + 2 in #Theology can make 5. Because it has to do with
#God and real #life of #people.”
Gobsmacked by the relentless
leftism of Francis and his aides, Al Gore asked in 2015, “Is the pope
Catholic?” The question is no longer a joke.
This essay originally appeared
at The American Spectator. It was reprinted by OnePeterFive with the permission of the author,
and republished here.
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