[CTRL] Pope "Most Important Socialist in the World" Says Gorbachev

[David Sutherland]

Pope "Most Important Socialist in the World" Says Gorbachev http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=148203 ROME, Apr 4, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday described Pope John Paul II as "the most important socialist in the world," for making the plight of the poor and solidarity key themes of his papacy. "Globalization can also have destructive effects but we must pursue, as the pope says, its positive aspects," the former Soviet leader said in a speech to students of Rome's Sapienza university. "Wherever John Paul II goes on his trips, he will always speak of the poor and of solidarity. He is the most important socialist in the world." If globalization is to be fair, the gap between North and South must not be deepened, and political and economic freedom and social justice must be granted, he added. These were also socialist ideals. Gorbachev said he was convinced that the outcome of Russia's presidential elections would allow Vladimir Putin to break with the past. "I have told him this personally," he said. "Now it is up to him to radically change things without losing time." He called on Putin to put an end to the excessive capitalism that was rampant under the outgoing president, Boris Yeltsin. He should usher in a new policy based on "faithfulness to freedom, the market economy and Europe," he said. Gorbachev arrived in Rome on Friday and held talks with Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema on Saturday. Although he met the pope when he was Soviet leader, no meeting is scheduled during his current visit. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)     COMMENT: Any serious student of history will recall that the Nazis also eulogised the pope and papacy as a model for their own sense of "morality".   Now, not only the socialists and "former" communists praise the gaudy pope, but the worlds media will say not a word against papal ambitions and the interference of a totalitarian, anti democratic system as the papacy in world politics.   In Europe, the Vatican has progressively re-conquered its lost "papal states" and established papal fiefdoms such as its long sort for puppet state of Croatia.   Franz von Papen, a powerful Nazi, who was instrumental in setting up a concordat between Germany and the Vatican had this to say: "The Third Reich is the first world power which not only acknowledges but also puts into practice the high principles of the papacy." If you are not aware of what a concordat is, a concordat is an agreement between the Vatican and a government.   As far as the Vatican is concerned, that government that signed the concordat has now become a part of the government of God, and the Vatican fully intends to support that government, give it papal protection, and give it international recognition and security.       Like Italy, Germany signed a concordat with the Vatican in Rome, 1933. Signing the concordat is Cardinal Pacelli (later to become Pope Pius XII).   By 1933 he was the Vatican Secretary of State. Second from left is Franz von Papen, a sinister Nazi and devout Roman Catholic who was Hitler's ace diplomat and the Vatican's agent in helping to bring Hitler to power.   Standing at the far right can be seen the little-known Vatican prelate, Montini, later to become Pope Paul VI.   The papacy struts the world stage as a representative of true religion.   Interestingly, her own historians have stated that the Vatican is either the spiritual "bride of christ" or the very "harlot of satan",  when one surveys the teachings and history of the papal system, its unchristian pagan dogma and doctrines, its crusades, its murderous inquisition, and so forth, we must concur with her own historians - with the LATTER descript.