The scaring part is seeing whay the media is capable to do... The new Pope
was cheered as a rock star, by people that have no idea of what he thinks
or did...
Maria Inės Azambuja
Brazil
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From: "McGrath, Lynnley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [SDOH] Setting the Record Straight
A black day for the health of women worldwide.
Lynnley McGrath
Senior Policy Officer Gender Health
Child and Community Health Directorate
Department of Health Western Australia
Phone (08) 9323 6671 Fax (08) 9323 6699
-----Original Message-----
From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Brian Hyndman
Sent: Wednesday, 20 April 2005 3:23 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [SDOH] Setting the Record Straight
Sadly, his successor, Benedict the whatever, seems to be even worse. It
boggles the mind, but he apparently criticized JP II for his 'progressive'
stance on certain issues.
Quoting Vicente Navarro <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> It is not customary for me to write on Church affairs. Most of my work
> is concerned with how to eliminate poverty and reduce social
> inequalities in the world. But I am outraged by the way the U.S. media
> have portrayed the deceased Pope. I am enclosing an article I have
> written recently published in Counterpunch which aims at setting the
> record straight. Needless to say, my influence is remarkably limited,
> since my access to the media is nil. I hope, however, that people
> involved in correcting health and social inequalities will help to
> correct the record.
>
>
> Vincent Navarro
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> John Paul II was a Reactionary Pope
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> John Paul II's opposition to the war in Iraq should not mask his
> reactionary positions on both religious and social issues. Despite his
> portrayal as such in the media, he was no friend of the poor. He
> opposed those who tried to resolve poverty, such as the Latin American
> liberation theology movement. He supported regimes responsible for
> expanding poverty. When he visited Chile during the Pinochet regime,
> he never publicly condemned or criticized that horrible dictatorship.
> To the contrary, when Pinochet was detained in London at the request
> of the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon--who wanted Pinochet to be tried
> in Spain for the assassination of Spaniards in Chile--John Paul II's
> Secretary of State, Monsignor Soldano, pressured the British
> government to release him.
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> John Paul II also openly supported the post-Francoist Popular Party in
> Spain (founded by Fraga Iribarne, Franco's Minister of the Interior,
> who was in charge of the hated political police), and he ever
> condemned the fascist dictatorship that the Spanish Church had
> supported. Just a few weeks before his death, he gave an aggressive
> speech condemning Spain's socialist government, presided over by Jose
> Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, denouncing not only its new legislation on
> abortion and homosexual marriage, but also its progressive economic,
> fiscal, and even environmental policies. John Paul II was, for the
> most part, a profoundly right-wing pope who represented himself as
> loving the poor--by which he meant not eliminating their poverty but
> increasing their numbers.
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> Vincent Navarro
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