Bernardino Montejano, a retired notary in Buenos Aires, wrote on 24
October about Cardinal Bergoglio's "mismanagement" of the Archdiocese of
Buenos Aires.
Montejano recalls that Cardinal Bergoglio's "heart
was on the left, while his wallet was on the right", like the cat of
the Roman poet Trilussa (+1950), who was a socialist when fasting but a
good conservative when eating.
He recounts a case in which
Montejano personally intervened as a notary: "I swear to God that
everything I am saying is true, because I was a privileged witness,
through proximity, to an unfortunate event."
The protagonist of
the story was Monsignor Antonio González, parish priest of San Isidro
Labrador and founder of the local parish school.
When Monsignor
González was hospitalised with serious health problems, an inspection by
Archbishop Bergoglio arrived at the school and ordered the director to
open the safe.
The director declared that everything belonged to
the school, except for an envelope marked Father G., which contained the
parish priest's savings for his retirement (USD 22,000).
Everything was taken away.
As
time went by without any news, Matías González, a brother of the priest
who knew Bergoglio and was on good terms with him, asked for an
audience with Bergoglio to claim his brother's money.
He received
the following reply from Bergoglio: "Look, Matías, the Church has spent
a lot on your brother, and what goes in here doesn't come out."
At
the time, Monsignor González was living in an apartment on Avenida San
Isidro 4200, lent to him by a cousin. A consecrated laywoman took care
of him in a very precarious way.
Montejano gave him $5,000 and
took the opportunity to tell him: "Monsignor, the Church is a mystery.
Part of what was stolen by your archbishop is being returned to you
through me."
His reply was: "Thank you, I can pay the lady who
looks after me until the end of the year". After that he lived for free
in a house, helped by his former parishioners.
The case with
Bergoglio ended up in the civil courts, where Monsignor González
demanded the return of the stolen money. Cardinal Bergoglio lost the
case.
Montejano calls Francis "the worst pope of modern and
contemporary times", adding that "not since Stephen VI and the Synod of
the Cadavers (897), followed by the Century of Iron, has the Church
experienced such perversity".
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