WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Sicilia Libertaria: this side - No one is spinning the pope (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 At the stroke of the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, while efforts are

intensified to ensure that this carnage does not stop, through new economic
allocations and new arms supplies to the government of Zelensky, while Russia,
for its part, exchanges gas and oil with the armaments (or money) useful for not
stopping the invasion, Pope Bergoglio would be left alone to talk about "peace".
Or at least this is the current vulgate concerning the only, true pacifist left
around. ---- For 12 months, the movements that have been taking to the streets
since February last year against this war, against NATO which has acutely sought
it and is conducting it without even so many screens, in person, have had no
visibility for 12 months. and against Putin's Russia, already a beacon of
national sovereigns and fascists from the League to the Brothers of Italy, to
Forza Italia, at least until they had to adapt to the orders of the United States.

The fact is that the anti-war movements represent an annoying element of
disturbance, they demonstrate in Niscemi or Coltano or Aviano, they block ships
loaded with weapons in Italian ports, they hinder the armaments industries as in
Iglesias in Sardinia or in the Modena area on indication of the trade unions.
Unless there are clashes with many injured, arrests and damage to the windows of
luxury shops, their demonstrations do not have the requisites to be taken into
consideration by the press and TV.

The pope however, while continuing to spread hot air and words of circumstance,
is presented as the only authoritative voice in matters of peace. I challenge:
that is the useful-idiot pacifism that every militarist dreams of. A pope useful
to everyone: to those who supply Ukraine and half the world with weapons
(remember the Italian ammunition supplied by the Iranian police), and who can
declare that those weapons are necessary to obtain a victory that brings peace;
to the institutional left which has embraced the Atlanticist policy and is
approved by the "needs" of NATO indulging in a false pro-papal conscience. And
even to many who, despite declaring more radical positions, detached as they are
from the movements, cling to Bergoglio's words and to the Constitution.

But what is Bergoglio's peace?

It is an invitation to prayer and passivity; it is the empty appeal to the
contenders to stop hurting and to dialogue; it is the delegation to the UN, whose
resolutions are waste paper, and, as an assembly of states, it brings together
the flower of bloody regimes; it is an ideological cover for belligerents,
exactly like the peace of Kirill, like the peace of military chaplains on both
sides of the trenches. It is above all to avoid talking about those who practice
peace: conscientious objectors, deserters, saboteurs of war, present on both
fronts. It is to avoid inviting those employed in the construction of armaments
to strike and object (easier to do for doctors, midwives, nurses, pharmacists,
anesthetists in the matter of abortion). It is a peace that Putin and Zelensky
could also sign while continuing the war (until whose victory?).

But, as was said, the left has lost its bearings, and all that remains is the
Church. On March 24, the communist newspaper "il manifesto" interviewed Msgr.
Matteo Zuppi, president of the CEI, and begins by granting the "Catholic world"
the license of "important segment of the peace movement" in spite of "what
remains of the pacifist left". After this fine assist, the cardinal, interviewed
by Luca Kocci, gives his answers on the "dialogue, the only way to a ceasefire";
he recalls that "Pope Francis at the Angelus of October 2" asked Putin and
Zelensky to "stop this spiral of violence and death", but he complains that "this
appeal has so far gone unheard". So, for the cardinal, no one is running away
from the pope. I wonder why?

In his diplomatic tightrope, Zuppi admits self-defense but wonders what its limit
is; recalls the failure of the Minsk agreements that unleashed the conflict in
Donbass starting in 2014, but presents the great response that the European
churches are preparing to give: the European Bishops' Conferences have launched a
day of prayer for 10 March for the victims of war and for peace".

And if this is what "the important piece of the peace movement" says, then we are
screwed.

Brother Doubtful

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