The Pope may say that dictators are evil, but he loves doing business with them
Aleksandr Lukashenko jails opponents, fixes elections and abuses human rights without a thought. Just the sort of chap the Vatican likes to do business with.
The Pope (who will brook no dissent from his teachings) said last week that “dictators boast that they will change the world, but just bring destruction.”
The pontiff’s reflections on what he calls history’s “false prophets” came in off-the-cuff remarks on Sunday while visiting a Rome church. Mr Ratzinger says the last few centuries witnessed ideologues who created “empires, dictatorships, totalitarianism.”
He says they changed the world, but only in a destructive way. He also added that only “the silent light of truth,” not cruel and violent revolutions, can change the world.
These are big words from a man who heads a church that has made self-serving pacts with some of the worst tyrants who have ever lived. Hitler? Sure, the Vatican signed up with him. Franco? The Catholic Church was his main support.
But that’s all in the past, you might say. The Catholic Church wouldn’t do that sort of thing now. Oh really?
The Interfax News Agency has just announced that a concordat has been readied for signature between the Vatican and Belarus. Belarus is under the iron grip of Aleksandr Lukashenko, described as “Europe’s last dictator”. He jails opponents, fixes elections and abuses human rights without a thought. Just the sort of chap the Vatican likes to do business with.
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