Thursday, May 16, 2019

Vatican Eager to Canonize Evita and Peronism



"The Vatican has given the green light" - Argentina's CGT union launches a campaign for the canonization of Eva Peron five months before the presidential election.

(Rome) CGT is the largest union in Argentina. For the upcoming May 27th, it has called a nationwide general strike against the government and demands, on the occasion of her 100th birthday, the canonization of Eve "Evita" Peron.

"On its 100th anniversary, the CGT declares Evita the saint of the people."

This is the title of a publication that was presented on Tuesday evening in Calle Azopardo in the historic headquarters of the  Confederación General del Trabajo de la República Argentina (CGT), or General Trade Union Confederation. The presentation in Salon Felipe Vallese kicked off a campaign by the Peronist union to "achieve the canonization of Eva Peron," said Carlin, the country's largest daily newspaper, in yesterday's edition.


Padre Pepe two days ago in the CGT headquarters

The campaign started with the participation of Father Jose Maria Di Paola, better known as "Padre Pepe". The priest is a friend of Pope Francis.

The union representatives announced that they had obtained the approval of the Vatican and the Argentine Bishops' Conference for the campaign.

Argentina's Saint

Argentina has so far had three saints: Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa, José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero and Hector Valdivielso Saez.

Nazaria Ignacia of St. Teresa of Jesus (1889-1942) was born in Spain. In 1906 she moved with her family to Mexico, where she became a nun. In 1925 she founded her own female missionary order in Bolivia, Cruciatarum Ecclesiae Missionariarum. The last years of her life were spent in Argentina, where she created numerous facilities for youth and the poor. In 1992 she was beatified by Pope John Paul II, and canonized in 2018 by Pope Francis

Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero (1840-1914) was an Argentine priest who spent his pastoral life as a country pastor. In autumn 2013 he was beatified and canonised in 2016 by Pope Francis.

The Argentinean Hector Valdivielso Sáez (1910-1934), born in Buenos Aires, entered the Christian Brothers in 1926 and accepted the religious name of Benito of Jesus. For teacher training he was sent in 1929 to religious houses in Spain. When an alliance of Catholic parties became part of a coalition government in 1934, the radical left called for revolution in the style of the Bolshevik October
Revolution of 1917. In Asturias, the Revolutionary Committees of Socialists and Communists

ordered all priests to be arrested as "enemies of the people." Brother Benito of Jesus was also arrested while he was doing retreats. Sentenced to death by a revolutionary court, he was executed on October 9, 1934 along with other prisoners. As one of the martyrs of Turon, he was beatified in 1990 by Pope John Paul II and was the first Argentine to be canonized in 1999. 

Pope Francis added the first two canonizations to this first saint. In addition, Argentina today counts 13 blessed. This includes the controversial beatification of Bishop Enrique Angelelli last April.

"Immortal" Evita

As far as the CGT union is concerned, Eva Peron, the wife of the two-time coup d'état and two-time head of state and government of Argentina, Juan Domingo Peron, should also be elevated to the altars. Eva Peron's "Evita" by Andrew Loyd Webber and Tim Rice, with their hit Do not Cry for Me Argentina, has been "immortalized" since 1976. The main characters of the musical alongside Evita are still her husband Juan Domingo Peron and Che Guevara, the communist revolutionary, guerrilla leader and patron saint of the extreme left and also some parts of the extreme right.

Eva Peron (1919-1952).

"What the Peronist union CGT demands can take years. A canonization process begins in the diocese in which the candidate died," says Clairin, dampening expectations somewhat.

Eva Peron died on July 26, 1952, at the age of only 33, in the Argentine capital, which is why the
Archdiocese of Buenos Aires is responsible for the opening and first phase of the beatification process, which was chaired by Pope Francis from 1998-2013. The Pope is said to have become a convinced Peronist at a young age. When Peron became president for the first time, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was twelve years old.

Last Tuesday night, the entire CGT leadership was present. The campaign for beatification, according to the CGT secretary-general, is intended to be the prelude to a "counter-culture" which "says everything and is always humble.”

"Eva Peron gave her life for a providential mission, the mission to save the dignity of the human person in its transcendent sense. That was the synthesis of a deep faith in her people and in God. "

And further:

"In this deeply Christian, Catholic and humanistic framework, the CGT understands the message and the immense work of Eva Peron."




One wants to compare those who try to gain a hearing "with many words but little knowledge at the lower level" with  market hucksters.

The "canonization" of Peronism

The union also posted a photo showing priest Padre Pepe at the lectern at the CGT union headquarters, along with his campaign launch press release. A logical step, since Padre Pepe is a personal friend of Pope Francis, and the Holy See and, accordingly, the Argentine Episcopal Conference gave the green light to the CGT campaign.





Padre Pepe with Pope Francis in the Vatican.

According to critics, Argentinian Peronism seeks its own canonization and sees it as an opportune moment under Pope Francis and his politicization of the Church. When the Peronists were defeated in the presidential elections of 2015, Francis made no secret of his disappointment and has since then given the elected, non-Peronist head of state Mauricio Macri the cold shoulder. That was "a reason" why Francis as Pope did not visit his homeland, because he did not want to help Macri to a second term by his presence.

At the end of October 2019, the regular elections will take place. In mid-August, the political groups determine their candidates in open primaries. According to polls, neither Macri nor the Peronists can be sure of a victory. However, the Peronists are counting on a return to Casa Rosada, the official residence of the President, from where they have ruled the country 24 out of 36 years since the end of the military dictatorship.

The union CGT

An important role is played by the General Confederation of Trade Unions (CGT), formed in 1930, as in France and Italy, as an alliance of socialists, communists and revolutionary syndicalists. After the 1943 coup d'état, most of the union supported Labor Minister Juan Domingo Peron. When he was dismissed and arrested as a minister in 1945, the CGT called for a general strike. The agitation, in which Eva Peron participated, forced Peron's release.






Padre Pepe with Archbishop Bergoglio (Buenos Aires). We have known each other for a long time.

For the presidential elections of 1946, the union founded the Labor Party (PL) and contributed significantly to Peron's election victory. In return, it received half the mandate of the three-party Peronist coalition, the Speaker of Parliament, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the important governorship of the province of Buenos Aires, by far the most important member state. In 1947, the three parties dissolved and joined together under Peron leadership to the Peronist Party (PP), which calls itself today Partido Justicialista (PJ). The CGT was the mainstay of Peronism.

With the fall of Peron in 1955, the Peronist movement was banned. In 1966, leading parts of the union supported the coup d'état without reaching an agreement with the new rulers. Radicalization increased in the late 1960s. Underground organizations emerged on the left bank of Peronism, forcibly overthrowing the government and attempting to put Peron back to power. The best-known guerrilla groups were the Montoneros, the ERP and the Peronist Armed Forces (FAP), which also murdered several CGT trade unionists as traitors, including two secretaries-general in 1970 and 1973 (presidents). Their front page included the journal Cristianismo y Revolucion (Christianity and Revolution), which was published in 1966-1971 in the context of Marxist liberation theology, the left-wing priest movement for the Third World and among other things spokesman of the left-wing revolutionary and guerrilla organizations.


"People's Saint"


In fact, Peron was able to become president and head of government for a second time in 1973, but died the following year. In office until 1976, his second wife, Isabel Peron, who tried to build on the nimbus of Eva Peron, politically, but could not pacify the country, and was dragged down by rampant favoritism and corruption even deeper into the crisis. When the military took power in 1976 in the midst of chaos, the CGT was also persecuted. Several union representatives were arrested, some disappeared in the hands of the military never to return. Through numerous strikes, especially since 1979, the union pushed from the underground to an end to the military dictatorship that came in 1983.

Since its re-establishment, the CGT is again the largest and most influential union in the country, but has had to share its influence with the split-off in 1992, CAT, also a Peronist but leftist, half-sized union.

With the campaign for the beatification of the former Primera Dama (First Lady) of Argentina, the largest trade union in the country is entering unfamiliar uncharted territory.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: ElC / Calrin / Vatican.va (Screenshots)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
AMDG

20 comments:

David O'Neill said...

Surely not!!

JBQ said...

Cry for me, Argentina.

Peter Watson said...

Never let truth get in the way of a good old Nardi beat up.

Tancred said...

I wish I had a nickel every time you claimed to have actual information and rational argumentation but were empty handed.

Michael Dowd said...

St. Eva Peron? Yes, why not. All of this politicizing of sainthood only adds to the evidence that Pope (?) Francis is a false Pope, anti-Pope, a forerunner of the Anti-Christ.

All of us, at this stage of the game, should consider at a minimum that Pope (?) Francis status is a least UNCERTAIN. And that whatever he does and has done is not valid or binding from the very day of inauguration. He is both a heretic and a usurper. We are fortunate to be able to see him as he is. Thanks be to God.

Peter W said...

Michael Dowd, who's "we"?

Constantine said...
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Constantine said...

Evita Peron was not an anti-clericalist, and died in the sacraments of the Church. Peronism was a very Catholic movement, based on Catholic Social Teaching of the dignity of workers and imposed high tariffs for the protection of the newly nascent, growing national/ native industries. Peronism substituted workers international Marxist unions for national labor unions and government-backed collective bargaining. Poor workers struggling in this country have a right to a voice in obtaining a just wage. Small family businesses are not capitalism, because capitalism is not business made to nurture and support a family and or local community. Corporate multinationals are formed by creating a fake legal person, called a corporation, with the end goal of accumulating capital. Small business, by contrast unlike godless capitalism production, is not based for maximized profits or consumer growth, but rather to manufacture necessary food and clothing and homes products, while providing jobs and a just wage for families. Banks do not have a right to charge interest-and profits except as explained by St. THOMAS with a fair modest amount to cover the needs of its employees, and to cover or prevent losses.
I can not say Evita was a saint.This is for God and the Church to decide. But God certainly gave her the grace of a happy death.

Kathleen1031 said...

This is patently absurd, and the mere fact that it is even being discussed shows how far into the morass the church has fallen. If this is serious, and actually being considered, then let's consider this the nail in the coffin of the church. Now that coffin actually has many nails, but here is another.
On what heroic virtue would Eva Peron be considered? I don't know anything much about her life, but that is supposed to be the measure of a saint, heroic virtue, not political wrangling. And the proposed saint is supposed to be demonstrating heroic virtue in all the virtues, not just one, correct? So what is the basis for that. Do political maneuvers count as heroic virtues now, simply because they are Peronist and the popes preferred politics? Apparently so.
This entire papacy, all these "saints" being made, numerous VII figures coincidentally, are all just to rubberstamp an era, a political movement, and the destruction of the Catholic church. This is just a continued mockery, a presentation of the False Church Bergolio and his friends have set up to live inside the Catholic Church and gnaw away at it from the inside, like a parasite.

Constantine said...

Bergoglio is not a Peronist. He is a follower of a left wing of the Zionist atheist Kirchnerist party now in control of the party apparatus. These are socially/morally liberal rich.They have substituted and subverted the ideals of Juan Peron for international cultural marxism.
As for your irrational rantings, sorry, but Catholics are judged not only by the number and quality of Rosaries said, but also by their struggle for Christ political Constitution on Earth.
What good is it if you hide and are not influenced by your Catholic moral teaching? Read Qua Primas by Pope Pius XI. Pope Pope Leo XIII. Evita lead a life not always to perfection, but it was also so with St.Augustine in his early years.

Bill Murphy said...

If the Vatican goes ahead with this ludicrous canonisation, at least one of the hymns for the ceremony has already been written:

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/madonna/santaevita.html

And there is no Devil's Advocate any more, so I assume that, at this late date, no one will raise any awkward questions about Eva's "charitable" fund raising. Or about any unseemly cooperation with refugee Nazis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Per%C3%B3n_Foundation

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033084/First-lady-Eva-Peron-allowed-Nazis-hide-Argentina-exchange-treasures-looted-rich-Jewish-families.html

I guess that one of the classic signs of sanctity (incorrupt corpse) is off limits here, due to the advanced preservation applied.

https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/eva-peron-body2.htm

Anonymous said...

Is it a joke, isn't it? JMB was a fervent peronist since he was 20.

Michael Dowd said...

To Peter W.


Michael Dowd, who's "we"? We the people of course. Right thinking people. People with eyes to see. people of the Word.

susan said...

So now 'sleeping' your way to the top, and enriching yourself at the expense of the poor descamisados is considered heroic virtue in the bergoglian dystopia. She is the original blue-print version of kamala harris, only difference is the latter merely 'slept' her way to the middle. Constantine is a delusional loon.

Anonymous said...

Madonna could be her stand-in at the canonization ceremony.
I can see her, hand in hand with Jorge on the Papal balcony now: "Don't cry for me...tra-la-tra-la....".

I suppose that there is a case for incorruptibility, but Eva has been pickled so many times you could stamp "Heinz" on her backside.

Constantine said...

Argentina was always a haven for many people politically persecuted in the world. They immigrated and were given a home when all of Europe was still in ruins after the last 2 wars. Talmudists and Zionists came; Christian peoples from the middle east; Pomes and Eastern Europeans who did not want to return to a Communist country after the last war; and even supporters of the Russian Tsar escaped and found a new life. Helping some Nazis escape an excessive and unjust punishment is fair. And justice cannot be divided by shrieking old Americanist ladies. And the Zionists and Talmudists were relentless and merciless in their revenge. I suppose, "susan", that fringe lunatics can't claim hostility to Naziism if they attend Ukrainian Catholic liturgies? But the Ukrainian "Catholic" Nazis murdered Polish Roman Catholics with the help of the German SS by the hundreds of thousands. And do you go to their liturgies and support their nationalist events? These people are unrepentant in their attitudes and proud of their proNazi roots. Ironically, many Catholic Ukrainians have found homes and communities in Argentina, Canada, and, yes the US, as so many other immigrants haveIn regards to Evita Peron, she died in a valid Catholic marriage, in a state of Grace, confessed and with in full Communion and with last rites. And she died with the best chance of plenary indulgence crucified and offered up in expiatoon for her sins on a Golgotha of a cancer bed.
Did Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, or much of the others die with such a chance at santification as her? I doubt. If you insult the possiblity of Evita being a saint, you insult the promise of Salvation and Santification offered by Christ through the Holy Sacraments.

Liam Ronan said...

@ Michael Dowd,

We who represent the 'sensus fidelium'. I agree with your sentiments.

rmichaelj said...

Your last sentence is nonsense. The argument is about whether she lived a life of heroic virtue, not whether she is in heaven or not.

Barnum said...

Jackie O for sainthood. Gaybriel will lead her cause.

Anonymous said...

Well said.