Caminante-Wanderer. Blogspot.com (16
January) writes that the Argentine Episcopal Conference, under
Archbishop Marcelo Colombo of Mendoza, has decided to create a
commission to study the life, work and death of Bishop Carlos Ponce de
León of San Nicolás (1914-1977) in order to beatify this controversial
figure.
- Archbishop Colombo was already in charge of the
case of the false beatification of Bishop Enrique Angelleli (+1976) and
has experience in investigating episcopal traffic accidents, as long as
the prelates are leftists like Monsignor Carlos Ponce de León.
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Since his appointment as Bishop of San Nicolás de los Arroyos in 1966,
Monsignor Ponce de León has promoted an extremist left-wing agenda.
- He cultivated a close relationship with left-wing political movements, radical activists and guerrillas/terrorists.
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He supported the anti-Catholic Movement of Priests for the Third World
(MSTM) and his closeness to militants of organisations such as
Montoneros, a catholic-communist terrorist organisation.
- Ponce de León used false documents and parishes to hide violent political activists.
- He supported priests who openly defied the Catholic Church, such as Don Carlos Mugica (+1974), who advocated violence.
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Since it is impossible to prove the heroic virtues of Monsignor Ponce
de León, the President of the Argentinean Bishops plans to take the
quick way and to declare his "martyrdom", against all evidence and
against the double judicial investigation carried out in 1977 and 2004.
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If the conditions for a beatification imposed by Archbishop Colombo
require the bishop to have died in a car accident, Caminante-Wanderer
suggest starting with Bishop León Kruk (1926-1991) of San Rafael,
although Caminante suspects that this last idea is not to Colombo's
liking.
- Caminate-Wanderer fears that Colombo's zeal for
beatification will not end here, but he will pass on to Bishop Alberto
Devoto (1920-1984) of Goya, as left-wing as Ponce and Angelleli and also
killed in a car accident, although this case will be more difficult
because his death occurred when the country was happily in a
'democracy'.
The car accident of Ponce de León
- Ponce de León died in a car accident on 11 July 1977 while travelling to Buenos Aires with a conscript.
- It was a rainy day with thick fog when his small Renault 4 was hit by a Ford F100 that had just overtaken a bus.
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The Ford F100 was driven by Luis Antonio Martínez, accompanied by
Carlos Bottini, both farmers and businessmen from Entre Ríos.
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Bottini's older brother was a civilian army officer, which was enough
for the Argentine left and some churchmen to claim that Monsignor
Ponce's accident had been an "assassination".
It was not an "assassination attempt"
- If the army wanted to kill the bishop, why did they allow a soldier to accompany him?
- It is not credible that the military persuaded two businessmen to cause such an accident, putting their own lives at risk.
- Why would the army have put two people on board the Ford F100?
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Did the military also recruit the bus driver to slow down at the right
time and in the thickest fog to allow the accident to happen?
- Would the military provoke an attack to which numerous witnesses could see?
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