Tag: Hypocrisy

  • SSVM: more hypocrites, impossible

    SSVM: more hypocrites, impossible

    The Mother Co-Redemptrix of the SSVM met last Wednesday in a private audience with Pope Francis to express her dissatisfaction with the visitor appointed by the Vatican. Apparently, the visitor requested space in the generalate to live with her team and assume the functions of government entrusted to her by the Church, which the Mother Co-redemptrix considers an abuse of power.

    Obviously, the new administrator wants to work freely. As is public knowledge, the IVE had previously subjected the other commissioners to a series of restrictive actions, checking their correspondence, hacking their computers, listening to their calls and exhausting them to the point that they finished their work quickly just to get out of that situation.

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  • Hypocrisy: A Mask of Virtue

    Hypocrisy: A Mask of Virtue

    We know that hypocrisy is a term used to describe the attitude of someone who says one thing but does another. As St. Thomas Aquinas mentions, he defines it as “a kind of fraud, which consists in feigning a virtue or a piety that one does not have” (II-II. Q.111.a1). This leads us to reflect on the authenticity and coherence between our words and actions.

    In this sense, today we see religious and priests of the IVE praying for Pope Francis, a gesture that may seem to be one of charity and respect. However, there is a historical context that may change our perspective. The relationship between Cardinal Bergoglio and the founder, Carlos Buela, was one of enmity during his stay in Argentina.

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