Pope Francis And The ‘Holy Cunning’ Of The Jesuits

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“Francis has repeatedly praised the Jesuit trait of ‘holy cunning’ — that Christians should be ‘wise as serpents but innocent as doves,’ as Jesus put it. ” — Huffington Post

Before beginning to analyze the strategies of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, A.K.A. Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, it might be useful to give a clear operational illustration of that order’s version of “holy cunning.”

In my opinion the example most relevant to what Francis is doing now in the arena of progressive politics would be the order’s nearly successful attempt to convert the imperial court of China, and all China with it, to Catholicism led by the legendary Father Matteo Ricci, S.J.

Imagine Mao Tse Tung as an altar boy.

Ayn, The Donald, And The Devil’s Dung

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My father used to tell me, “Watch the immigrants son, they will teach you your own country, because where you only see shit, they can see gold.” I can’t think of a better example of my old man’s dictum than Ayn Rand. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1905, Rand emigrated to the USA at the age of 21 and probably no one, native or foreign, has ever understood, and exploited, the dark side of the American soul so quickly and as well as Ayn Rand.

From colonial times America was split between the hard scrabble, small farm and workshop, Puritan spirit of the New England colonies, where the ultra-Calvinist Pilgrim Fathers had fled religious persecution in England to found a “shining city on the hill,” and the “get rich,” exploitative ethic of the slavery-based southern colonies, with their lucrative cash crops: tobacco, indigo and cotton.

I’m making no great discovery to note that being inhabited simultaneously by both of these conflicting spirits is what constitutes the roots of the uniquely American personality. The war of these spirits with each other, along with racism, is what constitutes the core of the American malaise.

Pope Francis Calls For Radical Mining Reforms As Tar Sands Spill

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Every week, Fracked Earth News highlights the most important global climate change headlines including:

__Pope Francis is at it again, saying there must be a “radical change” in the way mining industries interact with local communities and the environment. “The companies, the governments that are supposed to regulate them, investors and consumers … [of] mined material ‘are called to adopt behaviour inspired by the fact that we are all part of one human family.’”

__31,000 barrels of a filthy mix of bitumen, extraction water and sand spewed from Nexen Energy’s pipeline near Fort McMurray—smack dab in the middle of the Alberta tarsands. Seems the pipeline detection system wasn’t working. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is firmly committed to pipelines, despite all the evidence.

__Signal International of Alabama brought 200 workers from India to work on oil rigs damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Signal “deceptively recruited and then forcibly corralled [the workers] in squalid, overcrowded camps”—and that’s after charging them $10,000 each for “placements.” Signal will now be paying the workers $20 million. Signal has declared bankruptcy.

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