It probably wasn't easy, but Venezuela's
bishops have managed to buttonhole Pope Francis for a rundown on the facts of
life in Marxist Venezuela. At their "request," Pope Francis met
Venezuela's top bishops Thursday. Discussions centered on the country's growing
political unrest against a "cruelly" repressive government. So it was
the bishops who had to ask, or else they'd go unheard. That they even had to
ask is evidence of how opaque the pope has been about the nightmare engulfing
the retrograde communist country. "The situation is very, very
grave," [Venezuelan Cardinal Jorge] Urosa Savino told Crux Tuesday.
"What we see is a people who are suffering, who are being humiliated, and
who are being cruelly repressed" by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's
regime. More…
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