By Cele Fierro

Leo XIV is his name. Many people have expectations and all the world’s traditional politics and trade unionism are full of praise.
We respect popular religiosity and freedom of ideas, not the hypocrisy and double standards of the elites. And also, sincerely, it is worth asking if there are reasons to applaud or celebrate something of this retrograde institution and unrestricted defender of this system that is leading us to barbarism and of the new head for life of a State that is directly medieval.

First, the not insignificant fact that the Pope is elected by 133 cardinals, all of them men (obviously) and several of them suspected of abuse.

Also: did you know that in the Vatican State workers cannot marry or they will be fired? And that it is obligatory to be Catholic and that it is forbidden to join political parties that are not Catholic? And that there are no labor rights, no unions, no overtime pay, no severance pay, no nothing? Even tattoos and piercings are forbidden!

What is there to celebrate about an institution of homodoxy, machismo and cover-up of pedophiles? Not to mention the corruption of the Vatican Bank, a launderer of dirty money from drug trafficking and speculation.

Leo XIV refers to Leo XIII, the so-called Pope of “the workers”, that Peronism vindicates, that CFK went out to recall in social networks. But that was the Pope who militated against the organization of the workers in socialist parties and trade unions! A reactionary and super active pope to prevent the political independence of the working class in the face of capitalist exploitation.

In short: with the people who believe, in any case, respect. With those at the top who pose for the photo, repudiation. For an institution that is two thousand years behind, nothing to celebrate.