The Catholic Church already has a stranglehold on this country, especially on the majority of poor people. He recently talked with Panama’s embassador to the Vatican and had this to say (emphasis is mine):
the Pope encouraged the Central American country to continue working toward “greater social, economic, and cultural equality between the distinct sectors of society. He explained that this could be done by “renouncing selfish interests, strengthening solidarity, and reconciling wills.”
This is rather ironic and hypocritical coming from a man who lives like a king in a palace that is also a city-state and sits on a fortune estimated at between $50B and $150B while most of his followers are poor and destitute. The same man who protects child-abusing priests and preaches the use of condoms in Africa thereby condemning them to spreading AIDS and making babies they can’t feed.
