The people who read the National Review typically see a Jesuit, particularly from Latin America, as the second coming of Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez, so they are in need of reassurance that Pope Francis I didn’t choose his name in honor of Francis Xavier. He must have been honoring Francis of Assisi and the Franciscans. Frankly, I don’t know what this new pope thinks, but I don’t think a Franciscan would be so presumptuous to choose Francis as a name.
Okay, that’s enough inside baseball from this lapsed Episcopalian.
Let’s have some music. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
And here I thought that Henry VIII settled this for English-speakers in the 16th-Century. (I kid) Oh well, John Paul II, we remember:
As every cell in Chile will tell
The cries of the tortured men
Remember Allende, and the days before,
Before the army came
Please remember Victor Jara,
In the Santiago Stadium,
Es verdad – those Washington Bullets againAnd in the Bay of Pigs in 1961,
Havana fought the playboy in the Cuban sun,
For Castro is a colour,
Is a redder than red,
Those Washington bullets want Castro dead
For Castro is the colour…
…That will earn you a spray of lead
Sandinista!!
I don’t expect this pope to be some left-wing pinko, but he represents the right-wing of a left-wing movement in the Church that battled John Paul II throughout his reign. The National Review folks are going to have an awfully hard time keeping a stiff upper lip.
He may promote programs to help the poor. He has the reputation of working with the poor. I don’t expect liberation theology, but compared to Benedict, who was Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith. This made him (IANAC) a chief or head of the theological dogmatists.
I will watch this guy. Who knows what he will do? He’s probably not going to take public transport much anymore.
Shouldn’t they want it the other way around? I’m not an expert on this stuff, but I have a decidedly more negative view of Xavier than Assisi…and for all of the reasons The Corner should view it the exact opposite of me.
And given what has been reported before, but pertinent today:
It got almost universally panned after London Calling (which would have been hard to top), but I loved that Clash album. (And also saw them on the tour supporting it, with the Dead Kennedys and DOA opening, in a public hockey rink in Vancouver BC – punk glory days!). It stands up pretty well after all this time, too.
Great albums, both.
My son (now 18) found my old album collection a few years ago and the Clash became his favorite group at the age of 13.
I don’t know about Sandinista being “universally panned” when it cam out (I recall Rolling Stone giving it a rave, for example), but my young adult sensibilities took a while to wrap around the concepts. I started out listening to Police On My Back over and over again.
I kept on listening, though, and a few months later, I was playing the spooky, nearly lyric-free Side 5 over and over again. Also, the cool, weird grooves of Charlie Don’t Surf and Washington Bullets, and the mindbombs dropped by those song’s lyrics, held my attention for quite a while.
Hey, at least this one looks like your old uncle Frank, instead of like Emperor Palpatine.
I had the same exact thought.
Story is getting multiple hits from around the world, also some cloaked as “unknown” and addresses from the Eternal City.
Unfortunately in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, this year Princess Máxima from Argentina will become Queen as Alexander of Orange ascends the throne. Her father Jorge Zorreguieta has a similar obscure past under Videla’s regime as the “new” Francis I. When in life, a moral decision ought to be made, they choose a dubious role by complicity and cannot make a timely decision afterwards and say “I was wrong.”
Cross-posted from my diary – Jorge Videla’s Dirty War and Argentine’s Catholic Hierarchy.