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CardinalMatteusSandrea

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Cardinal Matteus Sandrea

You are the leading churchman of the country, an aristocrat and, secretly, a leader of the right-wing counter-revolutionaries. Some ill-informed people call the counter-revolutionaries 'GuevarianDeathSquads'. Hah! They would be living under the communist yoke but for your secret supporters.

You feel your class intimately: you condescend to the intellectuals, ignore the military and alternately hate and fear the peasants.

Which is a pity, because the aristocrats believe the only means they have to control the rabble is the Church. You have the job, in the aristocratic camp, of 'dealing with' the mob in the most expedient way. In the current climate this means cultivating and pandering to them, to the your consternation.

You are satisfied that you can balance this odious task by your financing of counter-revolutionary groups in the north of the RepublicOfGuevaria?. Your support of these men must never be made public, because it would cause a rift between the CortesOfTheCastilianDelegation? and the RevolutionaryConvention and, in any case, the Church in Rome would discipline you if you were to be found quite that actively involved in politics.

You are a member of the ultra-conservative group in the church called OpusDei?. You have a serious problem explaining the prevalence of LiberationTheology? in your see to the Church in Rome. LiberationTheology? is a version of Catholicism that incorporates working-class or peasant-class politics. It is banned in the Church. This does not prevent many South American priests from unofficially practising it. Many churchmen have died for their beliefs in social as well as spiritual justice.

You have had enough embarrassments in this subject and are on the lookout for any sign that junior priests, especially isolated countryside padres, are slacking off from Church theology. You will summarily defrock any deviants you find. You suspect FatherMiguelMa?ños of such heresy.

The counter-revolutionaries are under instructions to deal with any LiberationTheology? congregations they find, though it is usually too dangerous to eliminate priests violently.

Because you are a churchman, officially you may not participate in the party. You are not eligible for election to a party position, and you may not vote.

Motivations at a glance

1. Keep the peasants under control and prevent them from gaining the upper hand in the LiberalAcademicRevolutionaryParty?.
2. Get a reliable source of finance so you can support the counter-revolutionary 'GuevarianDeathSquads' - but make sure nobody finds out you support them.
3. Uncover any LiberationTheology? adherents in the priesthood and defrock them or, better yet, eliminate them altogether.