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Pope Francis prays for Argentina on the country's National Day
Pope Francis has sent a letter to President Cristina Fernández to mark festivities for May week, during which Argentina commemorates the formation of the First Patriotic Government on 25 May 1810. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesHave to laugh, I just Wikied political parties in Argentina and no wonder they can't get a grip of governing. That number of parties are not going to agree on anything, no change there then.
May 21st, 2015 - 07:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0This pap needs to be excommunicated. Political hack. How many other countries has he sent such messages to?
May 21st, 2015 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A prayer, that's pretty much the same as doing nothing, hard to believe that religious infestation has survived into the 21st century...its laughable (also sad)
May 21st, 2015 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Isn't poetic justice that Pope Francisco, the most progressive of the last decades, happens to be an Argentine who strongly identifies with the progressive government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner?
May 21st, 2015 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4. You mean he's a brainless turd!
May 21st, 2015 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@5
May 21st, 2015 - 04:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No you again! The exterminator I will call you.
The lovely ones are here again! What a pleasure to see all Malvinas crows together.
Maybe the Papal Bank of Deceipt, Fraud and Facism can settle rotting roadkill's arrears on its last EIGHT (8) defaults on its sovereign (I know. In the context of rotting roadkill that the term sovereign is a mutually excluded term.) debt dating back to 1839.
May 21st, 2015 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Enrique Massot: “Here It is, all the issues of a nation of forty-some million people explained in just seven words. We are all liars.”
Nobody can make omelette without breaking eggs.
May 21st, 2015 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pope Francisco efforts to modernize the Church as well as Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández work to make an Argentina economically independent cannot succeed without making ferocious enemies among the old fat pigs who were thriving under the old conditions.
@ 8 Kiki Mashed Potato Head
May 21st, 2015 - 06:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We can always rely on you to come out with the bullshit!
Is it true that when TMBOA realised she was about to be put on the back burner and Boss Eye's Secretary was to become president she arranged for Boss Eye's death?
Now THAT is something I could believe about her.
Pope Francis prays for Argentina
May 21st, 2015 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0only because no one else will...
Has any other Head of State visited the Pope FIVE times since his inauguration?
May 22nd, 2015 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0She seems a little 'needy' to me. I bet El Papa is just praying for her to stop bugging him.
Still, no-one else really listens to her. ..
4 Enrique Massot (#)
May 22nd, 2015 - 02:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0May 21st, 2015 - 04:06 pm
“Isn't poetic justice that Pope Francisco, the most progressive of the last decades, happens to be an Argentine who strongly identifies with the progressive government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner?”
That is absolute bullshit, Enrique, Pope Francisco was hated by both Néstor and CFK because he was and is a TRUE progressive, not a champagne socialist like the kirchnerist thugs. For almost all Néstor and CFK's rule they avoided Jorge Bergoglio like the plague, it is only since he was installed as Pontifex that the hypocritical bitch can't leave him alone!!!!!
#11 & 12
May 22nd, 2015 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice comments.
#12 Simon
May 23rd, 2015 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0I was aware of the stories prior to Jorge Bergoglio being made Pope. I too had my reservations about the man.
However, Pope Francisco has undertaken many positive changes in the Church, and he and Cristina are in good terms--to the despair of the opposition of course. What a difference with the relationship of Juan Peron with the Church in the 1950s...but many things have changed since.
@13 Chicureo
May 23rd, 2015 - 03:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you.
@14 Enrique M.
Maybe she (CFK) has only changed her stance because she, misguidedly, believes that he can enable her to achieve a higher global platform.
The self - serving egotistical entitled bitch.
Only out for herself as usual.
Can you not see this?
Enrique Massot
May 23rd, 2015 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.”
Matthew Henry
Argentine being a country with about 70 per cent of Catholics makes it easy to imagine the influence that a progressive Pope will have prior to the October presidential elections.
May 23rd, 2015 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of course, Francisco's discourse will not help candidates planning to turn back the clock towards harsh neo-liberal and regressive politics.
#7 chronic
Fascism, chronic. Fascism with an “s” before the “c” is how you write the word.
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