Chapter 943 The Silence of the Lambs

There was a young man who was walking in the woods whistling.

Suddenly he finds a small church, which is very run-down, the walls are basically down.

He entered the church, where the crucifix still stood, where the altar had been.

The young man felt himself fascinated by it all at once.

The Crucifix said to him, "Please fix my church."

The young man was a man of action, and he went to the quarry up the mountain to cut the stones, transport them down the mountain, and start repairing the collapsed walls.

No matter how long any journey is, it has a starting point, and no matter how glorious any journey is, it may begin with a coincidence.

So when you feel lost, don't worry, God won't give up on you.

We will have a lot of troubles in our life, and it is not fair to throw them all at the Holy Mother, who else will pray for us?

"It's really strange, isn't it?" Just when Bergoglio's memory was still stuck in the last time he preached in the slums of Buenos Aires, the Italian reformist Cardinal Martini walked up to him and said "We actually get together while the Pope is alive."

Bergoglio looked up at the bronze canopy of St. Peter's Basilica. Behind it is the sculpture of St. Peter's Seat. The light on the sculpture shines through the canopy, which looks like the gate of heaven.

"What hymn were you blowing just now?" Martini went on.

"Prom queen," Bergoglio said.

Martini froze.

"Abba band." The cardinal from South America said again.

"That's a Swedish rock band." Cardinal Arinze from Africa said next to the Italian bishop.

"Don't blow it in front of Ratzinger, look." Martini said, looking at the head of the cardinal who was shaking hands with everyone not far away, "he has always been regarded as the heir of John Paul II, but we The church is beautiful and empty, this is Europe, maybe it would be better to choose people who are not European."

"I heard from the media that this election is a duel between you and Ratzinger," Bishop Arinze said.

"The ash accumulated on the church is very thick, and more powerful people are needed to blow it away. Do you want to blow it?" Bishop Martini looked at Bergoglio and asked Arinze, who shook his head firmly.

"Reform needs politicians," Bergoglio said.

"The most important quality of any leader is not wanting to be a leader." An Linze whispered, "Give power to people who don't want it."

"No, please don't."

"Don't tell me, it's Plato who said that." Alinze looked at Ratzinger and said, "We are losing popular support, and the church needs real reform."

"So, it must not be Ratzinger, he really wants to be Pope."

Among the gray-haired, wrinkled bishops, the presence of a young man was particularly striking.

"I don't sell for the sake of winning people's hearts," Bergoglio said. "We want beliefs, not commodities."

Neither bishop spoke.

"Too many miracles." Bergoglio shook his head and said, "We can no longer use mysticism to bring people back to faith. Jesus did not survive after being crucified. What he set an example for the world, in that position of authority Having to suffer and die, isn't that a joyful job to be a star."

"Young people are always full of enthusiasm, like a flame under the ashes." Martini also looked at the young priest and said, "I heard that an interesting thing happened last night. I fell asleep in the chapel, saying that I wanted to get enlightenment."

Bergoglio showed a clearly displeased expression.

"Don't you believe that there are devils in this world?" An Linze asked.

Bergoglio did not answer him immediately.

His memory floated back to many years ago, when he was as young as Joseph, and his hair was not as thin as it is now, and it was still dark.

On March 24, 1976, a military coup took place in Argentina. The president was ousted and the military ruling council took over the power.

At that time, the young man who stumbled upon the church in the forest, Bergoglio became the head of the Jesuit priesthood in Argentina.

Everyone became a suspect, soldiers would take to the streets with guns and arrest anyone they thought appeared suspicious, and anyone who disagreed with the new government disappeared.

The daughter of a woman, Esther, an old friend of Bergoglio's, was also arrested, and Esther, like thousands of families, did not know where their children had gone.

The military government declared itself a Catholic government, so many priests were seen as supporters of armed resistance, but in fact the new government killed and persecuted many Catholics, and ordinary civilians also assassinated priests.

The only thing Bergoglio can do is keep the staff safe.

He wanted to negotiate a compromise with the new government, and in order to do so, he "handled" a lot of books to prove he was on their side.

He gained trust and learned that the arrest of Esther's daughter was related to Esther.

She collected too many books and pamphlets that were not appropriate for the new government, including Psychoanalysis.

Jung once said that many people are rejecting the extraordinary insights offered by psychoanalysis in order to benefit their own moral development.

It is also regrettable that many people ignore psychoanalysis and blind themselves to the depth and beauty of the soul.

But these are not as good as some irresponsible people who use psychoanalysis with the purpose of deceiving.

The Argentine military government borrowed 40 billion US dollars in foreign debt and only built half of the highway. In 1982, Galtieri, the third military president, took advantage of the patriotic enthusiasm of the Argentines in order to divert the attention of the Chinese people, and risked sending troops to recover the Malvinas Islands. The result was a disastrous defeat at the hands of the British Expeditionary Force, which was supported by the US logistics.

It was only at this time that Argentina realized what had happened, but until that day came, people continued to "disappear". Later, the investigation found that many "prisoners" were thrown from the plane into the swamp in sacks.

Esther asked Bergoglio, "How long will you be silent?"

He couldn't answer her question.

Bergoglio is just an unarmed priest, what is he going to use against the military police with live ammunition?

He told her "If I said it, I wouldn't be able to help everyone."

Esther said "No, if you did, would you be a warrior like us, or would you rather be a guest at the Admiral's mansion?"

Among the twelve disciples of Jesus was Matthew the tax collector. At that time, Israel was occupied by the Romans as a colony, but the Jews were smart, and the Romans could not collect taxes from them. In order to deal with the Jews, the Romans recruited some Jews and let them be tax collectors. , to extract the hard-earned money of the people.

Matthew was a Jewish tax collector living in Capernaum. It can be said that his profession was despised by the Jews because he worked for the Romans.

Both the guerrillas and the military government have the support of the people, but the Catholic Church is accused by most newspapers, articles, and scholars-why the church does nothing!

Although the church claims to be trying to help, many people do not accept their presence because many believers self-publish the church's official statement in support of the "dirty war". Even the new government takes advantage of the Catholic hierarchy, deploys Catholic discourse to justify its own violence, and silences the Church in the face of violence.

The problem is that Bergoglio is not really "silent", he warns others that they are being watched by the "blond angel of death", he tries to protect the Jesuits, but in the eyes of others, he is a "tax collector". Matthew".

Others are not afraid of death, they are willing to be martyrs, even if he orders those monks to return to the seminary with a higher priesthood rank than them.

Those who persisted in resisting the junta lost their right to celebrate Mass and the protection of the Jesuits, and eventually they too "disappeared.

Bergoglio rubbed his wet eyes. It was John Paul II who usually presided over the mass. He was also a person who had experienced the war, in Poland in 1940.

To young people it's just history, but to them old guys it's memory.

God may have a miraculous ability to forget the mistakes made by people, but God will forget, but He will not forget.

The church needs to be reformed, but he is the least qualified pope in the world.

"Yes, I believe in the devil," Bergoglio said when the other two thought he would not answer.

It's a pity I didn't do well enough.

The old boy said in his heart that because of his limited ability, he could only use bricks to repair one abandoned church, not all the churches.

Harry took the Sorcerer's Stone but didn't use it, the treasure was handed over to someone who didn't use it, and the double agent Snape