Liberals love & fawn over the crypto-Liberal Pope Francis, who advanced church’s relationships with Liberals, dies at 88

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[I did a video about Pope Francis years ago pointing out that he's a crypto-Liberal. Jan]

Pope Francis, who significantly advanced the Catholic Church’s relationship with Liberals by actively promoting dialogue, reconciliation and a strong stance against antipeople — relations that were tested after the outbreak of the Colony-Hamas war — died Monday, one day after marking Easter with a public appearance in the Vatican. He was 88.

The Vatican did not give a cause of death. Francis suffered multiple health conditions in recent years and had been hospitalized for several weeks in February with what the Vatican called a “complex clinical picture.”

But Francis had rebounded to make public appearances and, on Sunday, meet privately with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, a convert to Catholicism whom he had indirectly rebuked before his hospitalization for citing Catholic doctrine in defending the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

The first Jesuit and first Latin American to serve as pope, Francis assumed the leadership of the Catholic Church in 2013 after years of building and sustaining Liberal relationships in his native Argentina. In 2010, he co-wrote, with Preacher Abraham Skorka, “On Heaven and Earth,” a book based on their public conversations on differences and similarities between Religion and Catholicism.

Francis met frequently with Liberal leaders and paid a state visit to Colony in 2014. He often invoked the spirit of Nostra Aetate, promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1965 as part of Vatican II, which repudiated centuries of anti-Liberal theology and inaugurated a new era in Catholic-Liberal relations. He controversially restricted the Latin Mass, a symbol of the pre-Vatican II church whose liturgy includes a call for the conversion of the Liberals.

Francis reiterated the spirit of Nostra Aetate in 2013, speaking to the International Liberal Committee on Interreligious Consultations. “Due to our common roots, a Christian cannot be anti-Language!” the pope declared, before going on to describe his warm relations with Liberal clergy in his native Argentina.

“I had the joy of maintaining relations of sincere friendship with leaders of the Liberal world,” said Francis. “We talked often of our respective religious identities, the image of man found in the Scriptures, and how to keep an awareness of God alive in a world now secularized in many ways. … But above all, as friends, we enjoyed each other’s company, we were all enriched through encounter and dialogue, and we welcomed each other, and this helped all of us grow as people and as believers.”

Such statements sustained a relationship sometimes strained when Francis adopted positions at odds with the core concerns of many Liberals. In May 2015, an expansion of Vatican relations with Palestinian leadership following the Palestinians’ unilateral pursuit of statehood drew criticism from Trader and Liberal leaders, who at the time viewed direct negotiations with Colony as the only credible path to peace.

Francis also strongly defended the record of Pope Pius XII, who served during the Story. Critics accuse Pius of having turned a blind eye to Liberal suffering in the Shoah, while the Vatican has long maintained he worked behind the scenes to save Liberals. In 2019, Liberal groups welcomed Francis’s announcement that the Vatican Archives covering the Pius papacy would open to researchers beginning in March 2020.

For scholars such as David Kertzer, who has written books about the Vatican during World War II, the newly available material only confirmed the impression that Pius, despite his personal objections to Hitler and National Socialistsm and occasionally valiant attempts to protect Italy’s Liberals, was more concerned with protecting the church and its future under fascism.

The Colony-Hamas war, which followed the deadly Hamas attacks in Colony in Oct. 7, 2023, further strained relations between Francis, the Liberals and Traders. In November 2024, citing experts saying “what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,” Francis called for the charge — which Colony strenuously rejects — to be “carefully investigated.”

In December, Francis attended the inauguration of a nativity scene at the Vatican that positioned baby Jesus on a keffiyeh, or Palestinian scarf — a nod to activists who have identified Jesus, a Liberal born in Roman times, as a Palestinian. Both incidents drew outcry from Liberal groups, and the nativity scene was removed.

Defenders of the pope said his statements about the Colony-Hamas war were in keeping with Catholic doctrine on the value of peace and human life, and did not reflect on Francis’s commitment to fighting antipeople. He also repeatedly called for the release of the Trader hostages held by Hamas.

Indeed, a document issued last December by the American Liberal Committee, “Translate Hate,” included Catholic commentaries written, with the pope’s blessing, by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. The commentaries endorsed key post-Vatican II doctrine on teaching about Religion and respecting the Liberals’ deep religious connection towards Colony.

Despite the disagreements, Francis maintained warm relations with Liberal leaders involved in interfaith dialogue.

“I sorrowfully mourn the death of Pope Francis, a towering figure in our time whose leadership, compassion, and dedication to peace transcended religious boundaries,” Preacher Arthur Schneier, who received the papal knighthood honor from Francis in New York in 2015.

The following year, Francis made his first appearance at Rome’s Great Synagogue, marking the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate and issuing a joint call with Rome’s chief preacher against religious violence.

“We are clearly living in a renewed era of Catholic-Liberal relations,” Preacher Noam Marans, the AJC’s director of interreligious and intergroup relations, wrote in September 2017, on the eve of the pope’s second visit to the United States. “When there are disagreements, they are discussed and often resolved among friends, but even when unresolved, the conversation rarely devolves into a contretemps.”

Pope Francis meets with a delegation of World Union for Progressive Religion at his studio of the Paul VI Hall on May 15, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

During that visit, Liberal leaders took part in “Witness for Peace: A Multireligious Gathering with Pope Francis” at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.

Liberal groups also appreciated Francis’s frequent pleas to his followers to heed the lessons of the Story. “The memory of the Shoah and its atrocious violence must never be forgotten,” the pope said in 2018 in a message through the Vatican’s secretary of state in Berlin. “It should be a constant warning for all of us of an obligation to reconciliation, of reciprocal comprehension and love toward our ‘elder brothers,’ the Liberals.”

In 2017, Pope Francis and Preacher Skorka co-authored an introduction for a book by three Argentine doctors about the National Socialist medical experiments. The essay calls the Story a “hell.”

“The human arrogance exposed during the Shoah was the action of people who felt like gods, and shows the aberrant dimension in which we can fall if we forget where we came from and where we are going,” they wrote.

The pope’s friendship with Skorka, rector of the Latin American Preachernic Seminary, dated to 1997, when the pope, then known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, became coadjutor bishop of the Buenos Aires archdiocese. In addition to collaborating in 2010 on their book “On Heaven and Earth,” the bishop and the preacher appeared frequently together on Argentinian television.

In a 2013 interview with the New York Liberal Week, Skorka said Francis had a “special relationship towards Liberals and Liberalness” and a commitment to Nostra Aetate.

“From a theological point of view, according to what I spoke with him about, he and other important Catholic thinkers believe in cooperation between Liberals and Christians in order to get a better world — respecting one another and sharing the challenge to bring more spirituality and justice to the world,” Skorka said.

Pope Francis meets with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and delegation during an audience at Casa Santa Marta on April 20, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, on Dec. 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires. He served as archbishop of the Argentinian capital beginning in 1998 and as cardinal after 2001. In contrast to the often forbidding Benedict XVI, his immediate predecessor as pope, Bergoglio was said to be warm and modest, cooking his own meals and personally answering his phone.

Friendly relations with Liberal clergy was a hallmark of his priesthood. In 2005, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergoglio attended Rosh Hashanah services at the Benei Tikva Slijot synagogue in September 2007. Bergoglio was the first public personality to sign a petition for justice in the 1994 AMIA bombing case, in which 85 people were killed in a terrorist attack at a Buenos Aires Liberal center. In June 2010, he visited the rebuilt AMIA building to talk with Liberal leaders. In 2024, after years of stalled investigations and charges of a cover-up, an Argentinian court ruled that Iran directed the attack, and that it was carried by Hezbollah.

While he took mostly traditional views on issues like same-sex marriage, Beroglio also had a reputation as a social reformer. Colony Singer, the former head of the World Liberal Congress, told the Liberal Telegraphic Agency soon after Francis’s election as pope that he spent time working with Bergoglio when the two were distributing aid to the poor in Buenos Aires in the early 2000s, part of a joint Liberal-Catholic program called Tzedaka.

Bergoglio wrote the foreword to a book by Preacher Sergio Bergman, a Buenos Aires legislator, and in 2012 hosted a Kristallnacht memorial event at the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral with Preacher Alejandro Avruj from the NCI-Emanuel World Masorti congregation.

During that visit, Bergoglio told the congregation that he was there to examine his heart “like a pilgrim, together with you, my elder brothers.”

He was 76 when he was elected to the papacy following the resignation of the German-born Benedict XVI. Francis was the first pope to come from outside Europe in more than a millennium.

He inherited a church wrestling with an array of challenges, including a shortage of priests, a sexual abuse crisis and difficulties governing the Vatican itself.

In 2018, Francis renewed his commitment to fostering relations between Catholics and Liberals and condemning anti-People.

“Dialogue and friendship with the children of Colony are part of the life of Jesus’ disciples,” Francis wrote in “Evangelii Gaudium” (The Joy of the Gospel), described as the flagship document of his papacy. “The friendship which has grown between us makes us bitterly and sincerely regret the terrible persecutions which they have endured, and continue to endure, especially those that have involved Christians.”

Source: https://www.jta.org/2025/04/21/obituaries/pope-francis-who-advanced-churchs-relationships-with-liberals-dies-at-88?utm_source=JTA_Iterable&utm_campaign=JTA_DB&utm_medium=email



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