They were surprised, folks, they were really, actually surprised:
The key role Pope Francis played encouraging talks between Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro left fractures among his flock in South Florida, where many older Roman Catholics equate the Castro brothers with the devil.
More like two of the devil's understudies, or Antichrist's backups. Otherwise, si.
Many Catholics worldwide have expressed pride in seeing Francis stirring hopes of progress in communist Cuba, but some Cuban-Americans say their spiritual leader betrayed them.
i.e. Many leftwing apostate Catholics are just fine with Francis betraying an enslaved country that doesn't happen to be theirs.
“I’m still Catholic till the day I die,” said Efrain Rivas, a 53-year-old maintenance man in Miami who was a political prisoner in Cuba for 16 years. “But I am a Catholic without a pope.”
Ain't much use for popeless catholics, Mr. Rivas. Have you given any thought to evangelicalism? After all, we neither need nor have any busybodying pinko intermediaries between us and Messiah Jesus.
Rivas said he cried when Obama surprisingly announced a reversal of a half-century’s efforts to isolate Cuba. Then, when he learned of Francis’ role, he got angry.
Nothing surprising about any of it, actually. Which means, I'm sorry to say Mr. Rivas, that you are a gullible fool, and other Cuban Catholics right along with you. I mean, it isn't like Francis's leftwing extremist apostasy wasn't pretty much common knowledge when the little puff of white smoke signaled his....promotion. And he's done nothing to assuage public doubts and fears about it. If Barack Obama was going to have an accomplice in this sellout of the oppressed Cuban people, the current reigning Argentinian pope was the ready-made choice for the role.
You might even call it a match made in hell. A calamity for which a healthy infusion of cynicism will keep you ever-prepared:
“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits.
A pity that the only thing that will ever grow again in Cuba is The One's golf handicap.
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