2023-01-01

MURIO LA VIEJA PUTA JUDIA BARBARA WALTERS

 

Barbara Walters’ most fascinating interviews in her five-decade career

Barbara Walters, the pioneering broadcaster and grande dame of celebrity journalism, made her mark when she was only 34 years old. It was the day after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 and Walters was then a reporter on NBC’s “Today Show”.

Host Hugh Downs turned it over to a very young-looking and somber Walters, who proceeded to give a detailed, flawless and moving 5-minute report — without benefit of a teleprompter or video footage — about what she saw and heard in Manhattan in the hours after JFK’s murder.

Walters’ poise and articulation in the middle of one of the biggest news stories of the century foreshadowed an astonishing career of more than 50 years in front of the camera.

She went on to interview 10 US presidents in her lifetime. But as the news became more intertwined with showbiz, Walters really hit her stride, drawing up to 70 million viewers for her sometimes controversial, sometimes poignant, often pointed and provocative interviews with celebrities and news-makers.

Here are some of her most fascinating interviews:

DONALD TRUMP

Sitting uncomfortably close to one another, when Trump’s businesses were on the precipice, Walters did not hold back when grilling the future president in 1990 about his precarious finances. Trump attempted to wave away doubts about his wealth as “lies” and claimed bankers had told him he was “stronger than ever.” But Walters wasn’t having it. She announced Trump was on the “verge of bankruptcy” and had been “bailed out by the banks.”

Walters, Donald Trump
Walters spoke with Donald Trump in 1990.
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“Skating on thin ice and almost drowning, that’s a businessman to be admired?” asked Walters.

CHRIS CHRISTIE

Walters started off the 2012 sitdown with the portly Republican New Jersey governor by admitting she felt “very uncomfortable asking this question,” before noting, “You are a little overweight.” Christie chimed in, affably, saying he was “more than a little.” Walters paused for a minute before asking, “Why?” Said Christie: “If I could figure that out, I’d fix it.”

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Barbara Walters, Chris Christie
In 2012, Walters interviewed former Governor Chris Christie as part of a Disney special called “Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2012.”
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Walters sat down with the former governor.
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The interview was released as a 90-minute special alongside 9 other interviews.
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BROOKE SHIELDS

Shields, now, 57, complained in November that she felt taken advantage of by Walters’ biting questions during a 1981 sitdown with her mother, Teri Shields, shortly after Shields’ famous Calvin Klein jeans campaign.

“She asked me what my measurements were and asked me to stand up,” Shields, who was 15 at the time, told Drew Barrymore. “And I stand up, and she was like comparing herself to this little girl. And I thought, ‘This isn’t right. I don’t understand what this is.’”

“But I just behaved and just smiled,” she said, acknowledging that she “felt so taken advantage of in so many ways.”

MONICA LEWINSKY

Walters scooped the world with her 1999 interview with Lewinsky after her scandalous affair with then-president Bill Clinton, garnering 74 million viewers in the process. Walters grilled Lewinsky about whether she still was in love with Clinton. Lewinsky said: “No. Sometimes I have warm feelings. Sometimes I’m proud of him still, and sometimes I hate his guts. And, he makes me sick.” Walters asked Lewinsky, “What will you tell your children, when you have them?” Lewinsky said simply: “Mommy made a big mistake.”

Barbara Walters, Monica Lewinsky,
The innovative journalist also sat down with Monica Lewinsky in 1999.
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FIDEL CASTRO

When Walters flew to Havana to interview Castro in 1977 she expected a lot of pugnacity and suspicion. Instead, she said, it turned into a 10-day adventure which included her driving around Cuba in Castro’s open Jeep — and sometimes holding his gun. Castro took her to the Bay of Pigs and Sierra Maestra, the mountainous region where Castro lived and trained with his rebel fighters before overthrowing Batista in 1959.

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Walters rides along with Fidel Castro during her 1977 interview.
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CHRISTOPHER REEVE

Walters sat face-to-face with the actor in 1995 not long after he was rendered a quadriplegic in a freak horse-riding accident. Walters drilled down on the details of his accident, as well as Reeve’s difficulties being paralyzed — and how sometimes his air hose could get disconnected by mistake at night and he could only hope someone would get to him in time. Walters’ questions didn’t spare Reeve but the emotion showed on her face.

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Christopher Reeve was interviewed in 2002 at his upstate New York home.
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MUAMMAR GADDAFI

In January 1989, when the Libyan dictator was flying high and enjoying his power, Walters flew to Tripoli to interview him in one of his famous tents. Gaddafi criticized American leaders and called the media “Zionists” out to get him. Walters called him “crazy” in the interview but later backtracked in the ABC studios speaking to George Stephanopoulos. “He was crazy like a fox,” Walters said. “He thought that he was going to be the king of the whole Arab world.”

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RICKY MARTIN

The singer said last year that his grueling sit-down with Walters in 2000 left him with PTSD. Ten years before he would come out as gay, Walters goaded him to address the gossip: “You could stop these rumors,” she said.

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Walters spoke with performer Ricky Martin on “The View” in 2010.
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“You could say, ‘Yes I am gay or no I’m not.’ ” Coolly, Martin responded, “I just don’t feel like it.” Years later, Walters said she regretted asking him about his sexuality. ““I pushed Ricky Martin very hard to admit if he was gay or not, and the way he refused to do it made everyone decide that he was,” she said in 2010. “A lot of people say that destroyed his career, and when I think back on it now, I feel it was an inappropriate question.”

MIKE TYSON AND ROBIN GIVENS

Seven months after the then-heavyweight champion and actress Givens married in 1988, the couple made the dubious decision to be interviewed by Walters.

On "The Barbara Walters Special" in 1988, Barbara Walters interviewed heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson and his wife, actress Robin Givens.
On “The Barbara Walters Special” in 1988, Barbara Walters interviewed heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson and his wife, actress Robin Givens.
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Tyson sat next to Givens, who starred in ABC’s “Head of the Class,” while she described being married to him as “torture, pure hell, worse than anything I could possibly imagine.” Asked Walters, “Does he hit you?” Givens paused for a beat, then said, “He shakes. He pushes. He swings. Sometimes I think he’s trying to scare me … He’s got a side to him that is scary. There are times when I thought I could handle it, and just recently, I’ve become afraid. I mean very, very much afraid.” The pair, not surprisingly, divorced a few months later.

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malditos judios que apoyan a Bandera y a los nazis cierran el museo de Bulgakov en Kiev

 

‘Propaganda literature’: calls to close Mikhail Bulgakov museum in Kyiv

The Master and Margarita writer’s antipathy to Ukrainian nationalism has led to some demanding his old house be renamed or repurposed

Lyudmila Gubianuri, the director of the Mikhail Bulgakov museum.
Lyudmila Gubianuri, the director of the Mikhail Bulgakov museum, who is against changing the building, called the writer of ‘a man of his time’. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

In his novel The White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov painted an evocative portrait of his childhood home. Inside, there was a Dutch stove blazing with heat, a piano and a library, and cream-coloured curtains. The family’s first-floor apartment was located in “a two-storey house of strikingly unusual design”. In winter, the snow topping the roof resembled “a White general’s fur cap” – a reference to the anti-Bolshevik White movement.

But Bulgakov’s house in Kyiv is now at the centre of a bitter public dispute. In Soviet times it became a literary museum. Ukraine’s national writers’ union has called for the museum at number 13A Andriivskyi Descent – a historic cobbled street linking the upper town with the district of Podil, on the banks of the Dnipro River – to be closed down.

It cites Bulgakov’s well-known antipathy to Ukrainian nationalism and the “horror, death and destruction” that Russia is currently inflicting on Ukraine. According to the union, Bulgakov “hated” the idea of Ukrainian statehood and “glorified” the Russian tsar and monarchy. He also “smeared” Ukrainian nationalists including Symon Petliura, whose troops entered Kyiv in 1918, it says.

Set amid the tumultuous events of that year, The White Guard describes how Petliura’s forces besieged the capital. Defending it was a disorganised group of White officers including the fictional Turbin brothers. The Turbins are loosely based on Bulgakov and his family. He wrote the novel in the early 1920s. It was only published in full in 1966 after his death.

The debate over Bulgakov’s cultural legacy began in 2015, after Moscow annexed Crimea and initiated a bloody war in the eastern Donbas region. In a scathing essay, the writer Oksana Zabuzhko described his work as “propaganda literature”. She proposed renaming the museum after Vasyl Listovnych, Bulgakov’s downstairs neighbour who owned the house.

The Bolsheviks executed Listovnych when they swept into Kyiv. Bulgakov depicts his landlord in The White Guard as an “unpleasant” miser and “cowardly engineer”. “You should at least know Ukrainian culture. Don’t confuse owners and tenants,” Zabuzhko wrote. She added: “It’s time for us, dear Kyivans, to at least hang a memorial plaque for a start to Vasyl Listovnych.”

February’s invasion has prompted a widespread re-evaluation of Russian monuments and street names. Some have been removed, including a memorial plaque to Bulgakov outside Kyiv University, where the writer studied medicine. The culture minister, Oleksandr Tkachenko, said this process was not “de-Russification”. Instead, he argues, it is about “overcoming the consequences of Russian totalitarianism”, with cases decided after consultation.

The Ukrainian flag flying outside the Mikhail Bulgakov museum.
The Ukrainian flag flying outside the Mikhail Bulgakov museum. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

The minister has pointed to the way in which the Kremlin has used Russian culture as a “weapon of war”. In Kherson – the southern city liberated by Ukraine in November – Russian invaders hung banners celebrating Pushkin, Russia’s leading poet. They have banned the Ukrainian language, removed Ukrainian books from schools and libraries, and used explosives to demolish busts of Ukraine’s national poet, Taras Shevchenko.

Speaking in September, Tkachenko rejected calls to shut down the Bulgakov museum. He noted the anti-Ukrainian opinions that offended the writers’ union were “dialogue” spoken by fictional characters at the beginning of the 20th century, during what he called a “liberation struggle”. “I think the museum is not to blame. It definitely shouldn’t be touched,” he said.

The museum’s director, Lyudmila Gubianuri, has also hit back against criticism, calling Bulgakov “a man of his time”. “He was born and lived in the Russian empire. Bulgakov had an inherent imperial mindset, but neither he nor his family were ever Ukrainophobes,” she stressed. “Bulgakov did not believe in the reality of an independent Ukraine, like quite a lot of people at that time.”

Mikhail Bulgakov ‘hated’ the idea of Ukrainian statehood, according to one group of writers.
Mikhail Bulgakov ‘hated’ the idea of Ukrainian statehood, according to one group of writers. Photograph: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy

She continued: “That’s why we can’t consider him a Ukrainian writer, although he was born in Kyiv and lived here for most of his life. But Bulgakov’s work is definitely part of Ukrainian cultural space.” His sympathies – in The White Guard and in his novel The Master and Margarita – were “metaphysical” rather than “political”, she said.

Bulgakov’s English translator Roger Cockrell described him as a “Russian writer trapped in Soviet space”. Bulgakov’s relationship with Stalin was “highly complex”, he said. The Soviet leader admired the writer’s plays including The Days of the Turbins, based on The White Guard. But he refused to allow Bulgakov to travel abroad to Rome and Paris, and stopped him after 1925 from publishing prose. “Bulgakov certainly didn’t like Stalin,” Cockrell said.

The White Guard was neither autobiography nor history, he added. “It’s a visionary novel springing from a highly original and creative imagination,” he suggested, adding it would be a “shame” if the museum was forced to close. Cockrell said he had devoted much his life to Russian literature. He recognised its greatness coexisted with the “appalling horribleness” of Vladimir Putin. “There are two Russias,” he claimed.

Other observers have argued there is no meaningful distinction. Olesya Khromeychuk, the director of the Ukrainian institute in London, said Russian writers traditionally portrayed Ukrainians as “cunning, silly and uncultured”. “There is a constant othering of them and other non-Russians,” she said, adding: “I would encourage people to read Russian literature critically.”

Khromeychuk – the author of a memoir about her brother, who was killed in 2017 fighting with the Ukrainian army – said Moscow had repeatedly tried to wipe out Ukrainian culture. She cited members of the Ukrainian avant garde who were executed in the 1920s and 1930s, and the poet and dissident Vasyl Stus, who perished two generations later – in 1985 – in a Soviet labour camp.

“There is so much anti-imperialist Ukrainian literature people don’t know about. You can start with Shevchenko and Lesya Ukrainka [the feminist writer and poet],” she said.

Invasion: Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival by Luke Harding is published by Guardian Faber and is available from the Guardian bookshop

2022-12-31

 LAUDATIO AL ПАПА РАТЦИНГЕР УМЕР В 96 ЛЕТ В ПОСЛЕДНИЙ ДЕНЬ ГОДА JUSTUS UT PALMA FLOREBIT FICEM SERVABI CU8RSUM COMNSUMAVI СЛЕДУЯ ПО СЛЕДАМ ЛЮТЕРА, РЕФОРМИРОВАЛ СКАНДАЛЬНУЮ ТЕОЛОГию ИНДУЛЬГЕНЦИЙ И ЗАЯВИЛ, ЧТО ЧИСТИТЕЛЬСТВА НЕТ

 


Бенедикт XVI Сильвестр Абенд. ОН СОВЕРШИЛ МЕССУ НА ЛАТИНСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ И ОБНАРУЖИЛ, ЧТО ЧИСТИТЕЛЬСТВА НЕТ


 


ВЕЛИКИЙ ПАПА Бенедикт XVI умер в день столь же преходящий для немцев, как и день святого Сильвестра, немецкого папы, взошедшего на папский престол, совпавшего с ужасом тысячелетия. На протяжении всей своей работы я долго и упорно писал об этом событии.


На закате 1000 года все церкви в Германии были полны верующих, распевающих свое покаяние, это был ужас тысячелетия, конец света, но не конец света. Солнце продолжало восходить, луна освещала его, а Земля вращалась в перигелии. Йозеф Ратцингер уходит среди сомнений и трепета, пророческий ореол добра окружал его фигуру.


Евреи ненавидели его за то, что он немец, и утверждали, что подростком он принадлежал к Гитлерюгенд. Позже, в лекции, которую он прочитал в Регенсбурге, исламисты начали кампанию против него за утверждение, что ислам — это религия меча. Это была идея, которой придерживался Лютер, когда Германия была готова попасть в руки турок после капитуляции Вены. Много раз по утрам я вставал рано, включал коротковолновое радио и настраивался на латинскую мессу на радио Ватикана. Кардинал Ратцингер много раз говорил это, я заметил это из-за его сильного немецкого акцента, и у меня есть записи всех этих записей.


Его избрание было для меня временем надежды. Он был богословом, сменившим польского политика Войтылу. Но Ратцингер, похоже, вытесняет темные силы. Потом в Ватикане произошел настоящий государственный переворот, и сюда привели перониста Бергольо, который в темной юности был телохранителем и швейцаром в ночном клубе. Катастрофа. Из всех картошек самый подлый. Наихудший. Напротив, Ратцингер был кроток и смирен сердцем, полная противоположность уроженцу Буэнос-Айреса, который вошел в курию, как слон в посудную лавку.


Помимо своих радиомесс (сегодня они запрещены в эфире Ватикана), он сделал все возможное, чтобы месса святого Пия V, которую многие из нас продолжают ежедневно праздновать, не исчезла, и, руководствуясь Лютером, подавил богословие чистилища, побуждение к индульгенциям, ко многим симониям внутри церкви. Теологически Ратцингер в православии был революционером, он пытался сблизиться с восточными церквями и перенаправить теологический дрейф Второго Ватиканского Собора, абортов, секуляризации священников, педофилии и всего такого. На самом деле он был человеком из курии, но не отказался от своего баварского стиля Pfarrer (приходского священника) с большим интеллектуальным образованием. Он много страдал, но среди тяжелейших испытаний не терял улыбки

 LAUDATIO AL PAPST RATZINGER STARB AM LETZTEN TAG DES JAHRES MIT 96 JUSTUS UT PALMA FLOREBIT FICEM SERVABI CU8RSUM COMNSUMAVI FOLGTE DEN SPUREN VON LUTHER REFORMIERT DIE SKANDALISCHE THEOLOGIE DES ABLASS UND SAGTE, ES GIBT KEIN FEUGEGEBIET

 


Silvesterabend Benedikt XVI. ER BEHÄLT DIE MESSE AUF LATEIN UND ENTDECKT, DASS ES KEIN FEUGEGEBIET GIBT


 


DER GROSSE PAPST Benedikt XVI. ist an einem Tag im Herrn gestorben, der für die Deutschen so vergänglich ist, wie es der Nachmittag des heiligen Silvestre ist, jenes deutschen Papstes, der den päpstlichen Thron bestieg, der mit dem Schrecken des Jahrtausends zusammenfiel. Während meiner gesamten Arbeit habe ich lange und intensiv über das Ereignis geschrieben.


Bei Sonnenuntergang im Jahr 1000 waren alle Kirchen in Deutschland voll von Gläubigen, die ihre Buße sangen, es war der Schrecken des Jahrtausends, das Ende der Welt, aber die Welt ging nicht unter. Die Sonne ging weiter auf, der Mond leuchtete und die Erde kreiste im Perihel. Joseph Ratzinger verlässt inmitten von Zweifeln und Zittern, ein prophetischer Heiligenschein der Güte umgibt seine Gestalt.


Die Juden hassten ihn als Deutschen und behaupteten, er habe als Jugendlicher der Hitlerjugend angehört. Später, in einem Vortrag, den er in Regensburg hielt, starteten die Islamisten eine Kampagne gegen ihn, weil er behauptete, der Islam sei die Religion des Schwertes. Es war die Idee, die Luther hatte, als Deutschland nach der Kapitulation Wiens in die Hände der Türken fallen würde. An vielen Morgen stand ich früh auf, schaltete das Kurzwellenradio ein und schaltete die lateinische Messe von Radio Vatikan ein. Kardinal Ratzinger hat es an vielen Tagen gesagt, ich habe es wegen seines starken deutschen Akzents gemerkt, und da habe ich die Tonbänder mit all diesen Aufnahmen.


Seine Wahl war für mich eine Zeit der Hoffnung. Er war Theologe und Nachfolger des polnischen Politikers Wojtyla. Aber Ratzinger scheint die dunklen Mächte zu verdrängen. Dann kam es im Vatikan zu einem echten Staatsstreich, und sie holten den Peronisten Bergoglio, der in seiner dunklen Jugend Leibwächter und Türsteher in einem Nachtclub gewesen war. Ein Disaster. Von allen Kartoffeln die verabscheuungswürdigste. Schlimmste. Im Gegenteil, Ratzinger war sanftmütig und von Herzen demütig, ganz im Gegensatz zu dem gebürtigen Buenos-Aireser, der die Kurie betrat wie ein Elefant in einem Porzellanladen.


Abgesehen von seinen Radiomessen (heute werden sie im Vatikan unterdrückt), hat er alles getan, damit die Messe des Heiligen Pius V., die viele von uns weiterhin täglich feiern, nicht verschwindet, und von Luther geleitet, unterdrückte er die Theologie des Fegefeuers, ein Anreiz zum Ablass, zu so vielen Simonien innerhalb der Kirche. Theologisch war Ratzinger innerhalb der Orthodoxie ein Revolutionär, er versuchte, sich den Ostkirchen anzunähern und die theologische Tendenz des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils, Abtreibung, Säkularisierung von Priestern, Pädophilie und all das umzulenken. Er war eigentlich ein Mann von der Kurie, aber er hatte seinen bayerischen Pfarrerstil mit großem intellektuellem Hintergrund nicht aufgegeben. Er litt viel, aber inmitten der härtesten Trübsale verlor er sein Lächeln nicht

 LAUDATIO AL PAPE RATZINGER EST DÉCÉDÉ À 96 ANS LE DERNIER JOUR DE L'ANNÉE JUSTUS UT PALMA FLOREBIT FICEM SERVABI CU8RSUM COMNSUMAVI SUIVANT LES PAS DE LUTHER A RÉFORMÉ LA SCANDALEUSE THÉOLOGIE DES INDULGENCES ET A DIT QU'IL N'Y A PAS DE PURGATOIRE

 


Benoît XVI Silvestre Abend. IL A CONSERVÉ LA MESSE EN LATIN ET A DÉCOUVERT QU'IL N'Y A PAS DE PURGATOIRE


 


LE GRAND PAPE Benoît XVI est mort dans le Seigneur un jour aussi éphémère pour les Allemands que l'après-midi de Saint Silvestre, ce pape allemand monté sur le trône pontifical coïncidant avec la terreur du millénaire. Tout au long de mon travail, j'ai longuement écrit sur l'événement.


Au coucher du soleil de l'an 1000 toutes les églises d'Allemagne étaient remplies de fidèles chantant leur repentir, ce fut la terreur du millénaire, la fin du monde mais le monde n'a pas fini. Le soleil continuait à se lever, la lune s'illuminait et la terre tournait au périhélie. Joseph Ratzinger part au milieu des doutes et des tremblements, un halo prophétique de bonté entourant sa silhouette.


Les Juifs le détestaient parce qu'il était allemand et affirmaient qu'adolescent, il avait appartenu à la jeunesse hitlérienne. Plus tard, lors d'une conférence qu'il a donnée à Ratisbonne, les islamistes ont lancé une campagne contre lui pour avoir soutenu que l'islam est la religion de l'épée. C'était l'idée que Luther avait au moment où l'Allemagne était sur le point de tomber aux mains des Turcs après la capitulation de Vienne. De nombreux matins, je me levais tôt, allumais la radio à ondes courtes et écoutais la messe en latin sur Radio Vatican. De nombreux jours, le cardinal Ratzinger avait l'habitude de le dire, je l'ai remarqué à cause de son fort accent allemand et j'ai là les bandes de tous ces enregistrements.


Son élection a été pour moi un moment d'espoir. C'était un théologien qui a succédé à un politicien polonais Wojtyla. Mais Ratzinger semble déplacer les forces obscures. Puis, au Vatican, il y a eu un véritable coup d'État et ils ont fait venir le péroniste Bergoglio qui, dans sa sombre jeunesse, avait été garde du corps et portier dans une boîte de nuit. Un désastre. De toutes les pommes de terre, la plus méprisable. Pire. Au contraire, Ratzinger était doux et humble de cœur, tout le contraire du natif de Buenos Aires qui entrait à la curie comme un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine.


Outre ses messes radiophoniques (aujourd'hui supprimées sur les ondes du Vatican), il a tout fait pour que la messe de saint Pie V, que beaucoup d'entre nous continuent à célébrer quotidiennement, ne disparaisse pas, et guidé par Luther, il a supprimé la théologie du purgatoire, incitation aux indulgences, à tant de simonies dans l'Église. Théologiquement Ratzinger au sein de l'orthodoxie était un révolutionnaire, il a essayé de se rapprocher des églises orientales et de réorienter la dérive théologique du Concile Vatican II, l'avortement, la sécularisation des prêtres, la pédophilie et tout ça. C'était en fait un homme de la curie mais il n'avait pas renoncé à son style bavarois de Pfarrer (curé de paroisse) avec un grand bagage intellectuel. Il a beaucoup souffert mais au milieu des tribulations les plus dures il n'a pas perdu son sourire

LAUDATIO AL PAPA RATZINGER FALLEECIDO A LOS 96 EL ULTIMO DIA DEL AÑO JUSTUS UT PALMA FLOREBIT FICEM SERVABI CU8RSUM COMNSUMAVI SIGUIENDO LOS PASOS DE LUTERO REFOPRMÓ LA ESCANDALOSA TEOLOGÍA DE LAS INDULGENCIAS Y DIJO QUE NO HAY PURGATORIO

 

Benedicto XVI Silvester Abend. MANTUVO LA MISA EN LATIN Y DESCUBRIÓ QUE NO HAY PURGATORIO

 

EL GRAN PAPA Benedicto XVI ha muerto en el Señor en un día tan transeúnte para los alemanes como es la tarde de San Silvestre aquel papa alemán que subió al solio pontificio coincidiendo con el terror del milenario. A lo largo de mi obra escribí largo y tendido sobre el suceso.

Al atardecer del año 1000 todas las iglesias de Alemania estaban llenas de fieles cantando su arrepentimiento, era el terror del milenario, el fin del mundo pero el mundo no se acabó. El sol siguió saliendo la luna alumbrando y la tierra dando vueltas al perihelio. Joseph Ratzinger se marcha en medio de dudas y estremecimientos, un halo profético de bondad rodeó su figura.

Los judíos le odiaban por alemán y alegaron que siendo adolescente había pertenecido a las juventudes hitlerianas. Posteriormente, en una conferencia que dio en Ratisbona los islamitas crearon una campaña contra su persona por sostener que el islam es la religión de la espada. Era la idea que sostenía Lutero cuando Alemania estuvo a punto de caer en manos de los turcos tras la rendición de Viena. Yo muchas mañanas me levantaba temprano y conectaba la radio de onda corta y sintonizaba la misa en latín de Radio Vaticano. Muchos días la decía el cardenal Ratzinger yo lo notaba por su fuerte acento alemán y ahí tengo yo las cintas de todas esas grabaciones.

Su elección supuso para mí un tiempo de esperanza. Era un teólogo que sucedió a un político el polaco Wojtyla. Pero Ratzinger al parecer desplacía a las fuerzas oscuras. Entonces en el Vaticano se dio un verdadero golpe de Estado y trajeron al peronista Bergoglio que en su juventud oscura había sido guardaespaldas y portero de una discoteca. Un desastre. De todos los papas el más deleznable.  El peor. Por el contrario Ratzinger era manso y humilde de corazón todo lo contrario que el bonaerense que entró en la curia como un elefante en una cacharrería. 

Aparter de sus misas radiales (hoy están suprimidas en la onda vaticana) hizo lo posible para que no desapareciera la misa de san Pio V que muchos seguimos celebrando a diario y guiado por Lutero suprimió la teología del purgatorio, incentivo a las indulgencias, a tantas simonías en el seno de la iglesia. Teológicamente Ratzinger dentro de la ortodoxia fue un revolucionario, intentó un acercamiento a las iglesias orientales y reconducir la deriva teológica del Concilio Vaticano II aborto, secularización de los curas, pederastia y todo eso. Era en realidad un hombre de curia pero que no había renunciado a su estilo de Pfarrer (párroco) bavaro con un gran bagaje intelectual. Sufrió mucho pero en medio de las más recias tribulaciones no perdió la sonrisa