As Catholic media has reported the Pope is hanging artwork from the notorious sex-offender Marko Rupnik in his private apartment at the Santa Marta.

The image in question can be seen in a Youtube video made by Canal de la Cuidad (City Channel), posted on August 8, 2024. The video is entitled Pope Francis met with victims of Alfredo Astiz – although they aren’t exactly victims of Astiz. More about that shortly.

The image indicated above is unmistakably by Rupnik, with its telltale dark, soulless eyes. It is identical to the one shown below: an angel rousing St. Joseph from his sleep. Controversially, Vatican News has so far refused to stop using Rupnik’s images and this one appeared on its website for the feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Virgin Mary on March 19 of this year.

Now to the connection Alfredo Astiz connection. Astiz was a prominent military commender during the Argentine Dirty War (1976-1983.) He was later charged with crimes against humanity and sentenced to 19 life sentences for human rights abuses.

The video from Canal de la Cuidad was related to Astiz’ victims. It shows Pope Francis speaking with a young woman by the name of Anita Fernandez, the grand-daughter of Esther Ballestrino de Careaga , who was a left-wing activist executed under orders from Alfredo Astiz.

Ballestrino had been a great friend of Jorge Bergoglio: she was his supervisor when he worked at the Hickethier-Bachmann Laboratory in Buenos Aires. Ballestrino was an avowed Marxist and had a great impact on the young Bergoglio. George Neumayr’s Political Pope recounts Fr. Bergoglio’s thoughts on Ballestrino:

“I owe a huge amount to that woman; she taught me so much about politics. She often read Communist Party texts to me and gave them to me to read…..I realised a few things, an aspect of the social, which I then found in the social doctrine of the Church.”

After his ordination, Ballestrino called Fr. Bergoglio asking for the Last Rites to be given to a family member, even though she was personally an atheist. When Fr. Bergoglio arrived, he was told that Ballestrino in reality wanted him to dispose of the Communist literature which would incriminate her in the event of a raid. Bergoglio acquiesced (one source claims he took these books to a ‘Jesuit library’) but despite this, Ballestrino was eventually detained and ‘disappeared’.

By the time her body was found, washed up on the beach after being thrown from a plane, Bergoglio was Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Even knowing that she was a Marxist, he had her buried in the garden of the church of Santa Cruz. So, while Alfredo Astiz was not a good person, and while throwing Marxists from planes is quite inhumane, Ballestrino wielded an evil influence over the young Bergoglio, helping to form, so to speak, the anti-capitalist and humanist tendencies which are apparent in him today.

{NOTE: One more detail about the Papal apartment: this rather bizarre set of decorations are found to the Pope’s left in the video. They are quite strange and bring to mind Jago – that other sex-fiend artist who has been mentioned in these pages.}