New book reports on Pope’s youthful encounters with Peronists, leftists in Argentina
September 29, 2014
Pope Francis describes a youthful encounter with Evita Peron, and says that he has always been “restless” about political matters, in a new biography published in his native Argentina.
The Pope said that he met Evita Peron when he and his brother went to a Peronist party office to collect some literature for a school project. He saw Juan Peron only on one occasion, from a distance, when he attended a meeting about educational affairs, the Pope reports.
The new book, Quel Franesco (“That Francis”) reports on how, as a young priest in Argentina, the future Pontiff met with activists from both left- and right-wing political parties. “I never joined any party,” the Pope reports, saying that he had friends in different camps and tried to understand them, but their approaches left him “restless” for a better perspective.
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Posted by: skall391825 -
Oct. 01, 2014 3:08 PM ET USA
Francis is truly a man of God who I admire greatly. But, his seeming naivete regarding the political Left and Right is troubling, and leads to his less than clear statements on some semi-secular matters which send the Catholic-hating Left into ecstasy. FACT: A strong Left and a weak Right equals persecution for the Church. Francis knows that but seems to ignore it.
