I'm Starting to Distrust Priests Named Federico

  The Hammer and Sickle...stands for "a symbol of dialogue and commitment to freedom" and is "not about a specific ideology".


The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Thursday the pope had no idea that Espinal had designed the crucifix and was surprised to receive it — a reaction clearly visible in the footage of the encounter. Some reports suggested the pope told Morales "This isn't good;" one of Francis' friends sent a tweet quoting him as saying such. But Lombardi said it wasn't known what the pope had said.

 
Lombardi said Espinal had designed the crucifix as a symbol of dialogue and commitment to freedom and progress for Bolivia, not with any specific ideology in mind. Lombardi said he personally wasn't offended by it.
"You can dispute the significance and use of the symbol now, but the origin is from Espinal and the sense of it was about an open dialogue, not about a specific ideology," Lombardi said.

Stupidity on stilts.
 Mass killings occurred under some Communist regimes during the twentieth century with an estimated death toll numbering between 85 and 100 million
 

THE SEVEN MILLION UKRAINIANS STARVED TO DEATH BY COMMUNISTS WERE UNAVAILABLE FOR DIALOGUE.