Posted on 12/27/2014 8:02:42 AM PST by cleghornboy
Back in December of 2012, I wrote, "The "Social Gospel" is more concerned about an earthly future than eternity
Standing before a statue of Mary near the Spanish Steps on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Benedict XVI reminded his listeners that the Gospel is the good news of freedom from sin, that it is "the proclamation of the victory of grace over sin, of life over death." Proponents of the "social gospel" have forgotten this. The mission of the Church is not to eradicate poverty or social injustice. As Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand explains, while "a deep interest in the earthly welfare of our neighbor is a central duty of the Christian and an essential demand of the love of neighbor," still, "it is definitely no part of the message of Christ that there is to be no more poverty, no more war, that the earth is to become a natural paradise."
Proponents of the "social gospel" fail to understand, as Dr. Hildebrand reminds us, that "..the primary task of the Church is the proclamation of the divine Revelation, the protection of it against all heresies, the the sanctification of the soul of the individual, the securing of his eternal salvation - this is the spreading of the kingdom of God on earth, and not the attempt to build up an earthly paradise." (Essay entitled This-Worldliness).
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Social Gospel, just like the “Rev.” Al.....
So far it seems the gates of hell have prevailed against Christ’s church.
Yes totally social!
Ye have little faith.
Frankly, I don't have any faith in Jesuits and their socialist agendas.
Pope Francis strongly supports liberation theology, a Marxist aberration of the Gospels, a Marxist infiltration of the Church proscribed by H.H. John Paul II and H.H. Benedict XVI.
“Frankly, I don’t have any faith in Jesuits and their socialist agendas.”
I don’t either. The Holy Spirit, however, is in charge here not a Jesuit and not a socialist agenda. If the Holy Spirit deems it necessary, He will simply remove whatever or whoever the problem is.
Don’t have faith in the Jesuit. Have faith in God. He’s always protected the Church before. He will now too.
Frankly, I don’t have any faith in Jesuits and their socialist agendas.
...bingo...
The Holy Spirit, however, is in charge here...
...ah yes, the famous ‘Holy Spirit desires it’ defense for the Church’s emasculation following Vatican II...
“...ah yes, the famous ‘Holy Spirit desires it’ defense for the Church’s emasculation following Vatican II...”
Man, you could not be more off base. John 16:13
I have a firm faith in the protection of the Church by the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit decides a pope needs to die to save the Church, that pope will die. You seem to lack faith in God’s providence. I don’t. Ever.
Citation?
You confuse the intent of John the XxIii with a sequence of unintended events that happened after the close of Vatican ii. That convoluted thinking has become de mode certain weak follower of one sort. The actual criticism of the documents of Vatican Ii have been pretty well disposed of by scholars such as Pope Benedict in his discourse on the hermeneutics of rupture.
CDF head: Pope Francis has close ties with liberation theology
The Tablet ^ | 5/2/14 | Christa Pongratz-Lippitt
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/blogs/1/365/liberation-theology-coming-in-from-the-cold
According to Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Francis has close ties with liberation theology, the same discaterio that once condemned the movement. In the 1980s the CDF under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger attacked liberation theology as borrowing “from various currents of Marxist thought“.
COMMENT by dqban
Few know that Müller is also a pupil of Gustavo Gutierrez, the “father” of Latin-American liberation theology. It certainly, when Müller, the prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith affirms that “Pope Francis has close ties with liberation theology” it makes clear the reason for the exaltation of Leonardo Boff and the most radical leaders of the Marxist Liberation theology with the election of Pope Francisco .
It is a fact that in the Liberation Theology the Gospels are profoundly corrupted by Marxist ideology and praxis, including the promotion of class struggle and the creation of the so called “iglesia popular” (parallel and opposed to the Church), an instrument used by Marxist theologians to support the Marxist guerrillas and regimes in Latin America.
During the Nicaraguan Communist Sandinista regime, they went as far as substituting Christ on the Cross for a naked Che Guevara with his genitals exposed.
“During the ordination in Managua of Nicaraguan Napoleon Alvarado by the Jesuit Luis Manresa, who was Bishop of Quetzaltenango, and who was then rector of the University Landivar in Guatemala City, to the Offertory of the mass of ordination, Napoleon offered a machine gun extolling the Sandinista movement and the Jesuit liberation theologian Fernando Cardinal choosing him as a model of his priesthood at the service of the soviet. “ (Ricardo de la Cierva, “Dark Rebellion in the Church” pag.24)
The Marxist Liberation Theology, although it had its roots in the works of European theologians, it had its largest impact in Latin American, mostly by the works of Catholic theologians. This movement also infiltrated the American churches, and not just only the Catholic Church. Obama’s religious mentor for over 20 years, Rev. Wright, is a follower of the Marxist Black Liberation Theology, a racist anti-white church whose Marxist praxis compels his followers to pray “God damn America” instead of asking blessing for this great country of ours.
The American Maryknoll Order became one of the main promoters of the Marxist Liberation Theology in Latin America. In Colombia the Diocesan Father Camilo Torres joined the Marxist guerrillas and died in one encounter with the government forces. He is perhaps best known for the quote: “If Jesus were alive today, He would be a guerrillero.”
The subversive activities and collaborationism with the Marxist guerrillas of a group of Jesuits in El Salvador, including his superior, Ignacio Ellacurria, professors from the University of Central America (UCA), was so scandalous that in 1972 the Bishops of El Salvador threw them of the control of the Seminary of San José de la Montaña where there was a Marxist-Leninist cell among seminarians prepared by Dr. Fabio Castillo, who was the rector of the National University.
During the 1980’s,the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC), located in the San Antonio Seminary, served as the headquarters for the Marxist Liberation Theology in the U.S. This Center, sponsored by Archbishop Patricio Flores, became the Mecca of Marxist Liberation Theology in the U.S. where priests, religious and lay Catholics came from as far as Philippines to be indoctrinated in the Liberation Theology by the luminaries of the movement, which included Father Gustavo Gutierrez’s putative father of Liberation Theology.
In the book store of the MACC you could buy not only the most radical works by the Jesuit priest Jon Sobrino or the Franciscan Leonardo Boff, but you could also buy the bible for the conquest of power by the Marxists, Saul Alinksy’s “Rule for Radicals”, a book dedicated to Lucifer, who he considered the first radical. This manual has proved to be very useful to Barack Obama, who excelled in applying it in his struggle to reach the White House using the Marxist praxis developed by Alinsky.
Spanish Catholic historian, Ricardo de la Cierva has written several scholarly works on the communist infiltration in the Catholic Church, including “Jesuits, Church and Marxism - unmasked liberation theology,” (1986) “Dark rebellion in the Church” (1988), and “The gates of hell” (1995).
Pope John Paul II put Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in charge of confronting the doctrinal corruption that pervaded certain aspects of the Theology of Liberation.
In 1984 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published “The Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Liberation Theology”. It was a dagger to the heart of those theologies which, in one way or another, embraced the Marxist fundamental option. The preferential option for the poor will never be well served through an atheist ideology that has brought so much oppression and misery to the world.
After the measures taken by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the followers of Liberation Theology entered in a period of hibernation to apparently resurge with Pope Francis.
The liberationists rejoiced with the election of Cardinal Bergoglio as it seems that they take for granted that he is one of them. One of Pope Francis’ most vocal supporters since his election has been Leonardo Boff, one of the founders of liberation theology, and the most radical of it, a man silenced by the Vatican in 1985, and later by his Franciscan Order because of his attacks to the main tenets of the Church. An exulted Leonardo Boff expressed his feelings: ‘This pope will change the church’, basically, according to Boff, in fact we shouldn’t need a pope. The church could build a network of religious communities which communicate with each other.
Is the pope Catholic? Of course he doesn’t promote The Gospel.
And according to many who hold to Romish theology, he doesn’t promote the traditional beliefs of his church either.
Unmasking the False Gospel
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1010665821
The Gospel Defined and Discerned
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=81901181950
Both the Social Gospel and a false gospel of praying to Mary, as if she has anything to do with Salvation. Pope John Paul II wanted Mary to be named a “co-redemptrix” with Christ. What utter insanity, heresy and satanic falsehood!
You're not supposed to have faith in any men/religion. Faith in Christ is the path to take. And it doesn't take much - hence the saying, "I believe, Lord. Help my unbelief."....
“If the Holy Spirit deems it necessary, He will simply remove whatever or whoever the problem is”
What about the Borgia Popes.
“What about the Borgia Popes.”
What about them? The first one was a pretty good pope. The second was a lousy man, but he never once taught against Church teachings. The first was only pope for 3 years. The second for 11. So?
By the way, did you know that Alexander VI, the second Borgia pope, died while planning out major reforms?
John Julius Norwich, Absolute Monarchs, p. 268-269:
“As part of his proposed new reforms, Alexander now nominated a commission of six of the most pious cardinals, and less than two months later a draft Bull of Reformation had been prepared. The pope was banned from selling benefices and from transferring Church property to laypersons. As for the cardinals, who were to be drawn from all the nations, none should possess more than one bishopric; their households were limited to eighty people and thirty horses; they were banned from hunting, theaters, carnivals, and tournaments; and their funeral expenses were not to exceed 1,500 ducats. The lesser clergy were similarly reined in: they must refuse all bribes and put away their concubines.”
And then he died. The Holy Spirit does what He does. We just have to trust Him.
I realize that. I was making reference to their agendas and leadership capabilities, only.
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