Wojtila
Wojtila is dead. Not able to escape the globalized media, I have to swipe my eyes from furtive tears, at opening my dutch newspaper and finding the photo of the pope leaning on a cross, contorted face and silken clothes flapping at the wind. That was indeed a man that carried the suffering of many. A man that used this huge load the best he could. And he certainly could. The world would have been quite different without Karol Wojtila.
What strikes me today is the easiness that so many opinion makers in the global press have to throw away not furtive, but all sort of tears of sadness and regret. I can’t avoid feeling repulsed by so much recognition of good deeds. Perhaps the whole thing is a best proof of God’s existence. He has descended on the people of our planet a colossal, massive amnesia, at the moment of call back his son in earth.
Of course today, knowing what we know, one could not but agree in the intrinsic desirability of the fall of the Soviet Union. But at seeing the decomposition of that society at barely fifteen years since their incorporation in the capitalist side, at least one could wonder about better processes of transformation. Or one could show a bit more of measure at declaring Wojtila the hero of the war between freedom and sovietism. Perhaps that war has been won. But the costs of the way it ended are costs that we are still dealing with, and that we will pay for long time.
And that is regarding the most positive relevance of Wojtila in international policy. But now, I really wonder in amazement at all those latinos and third worlders that today cry at the lying figure. How could they have possibly forgot the role of Wojtila in the destruction of the liberation theology? (Unless god did really made all of them amnesiac).
The catholic church, the most formidable survivor of the last two thousand years, still has a lot to say and to change, as everybody seems to acknowledge today. Perhaps it should change following the course of those antiglobalists-loathed institutions, the world bank and the IMF. It is high time for the catholic church to reestablish the progressive streak that declared a preferential option for the poor. A streak that the all powerful and finally death Wojtila crush so efficiently.
What strikes me today is the easiness that so many opinion makers in the global press have to throw away not furtive, but all sort of tears of sadness and regret. I can’t avoid feeling repulsed by so much recognition of good deeds. Perhaps the whole thing is a best proof of God’s existence. He has descended on the people of our planet a colossal, massive amnesia, at the moment of call back his son in earth.
Of course today, knowing what we know, one could not but agree in the intrinsic desirability of the fall of the Soviet Union. But at seeing the decomposition of that society at barely fifteen years since their incorporation in the capitalist side, at least one could wonder about better processes of transformation. Or one could show a bit more of measure at declaring Wojtila the hero of the war between freedom and sovietism. Perhaps that war has been won. But the costs of the way it ended are costs that we are still dealing with, and that we will pay for long time.
And that is regarding the most positive relevance of Wojtila in international policy. But now, I really wonder in amazement at all those latinos and third worlders that today cry at the lying figure. How could they have possibly forgot the role of Wojtila in the destruction of the liberation theology? (Unless god did really made all of them amnesiac).
The catholic church, the most formidable survivor of the last two thousand years, still has a lot to say and to change, as everybody seems to acknowledge today. Perhaps it should change following the course of those antiglobalists-loathed institutions, the world bank and the IMF. It is high time for the catholic church to reestablish the progressive streak that declared a preferential option for the poor. A streak that the all powerful and finally death Wojtila crush so efficiently.
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