Posted on 01/08/2014 5:21:54 PM PST by ebb tide
Liberation Theology is taking over the Vatican a quarter of a century after Jean-Paul II systematically sought to stamp out the "singular heresy" in the radical parishes and dioceses of Latin America, a task carried out with dutiful efficiency by Cardinal Ratzinger at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Agree. As usual we have the media hacks at work. For a fuller understanding read this from a true Catholic scholar.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365720/agreeing-pope-francis-michael-novak
Francis was never a member of the Liberation Theology movement in his native Argentina, even if it shaped his thinking. He now regrets not having taken a stronger stance against the military junta, though the moral choices facing priests was not clear-cut. Some of his fellow Jesuits joined clandestine rebel forces. An Irish Jesuit served as pastor - with a rifle on his back - in Guatemala's Guerrilla Army of the Poor (EGP). Indeed, the Guatemalan army viewed the EGP as a Jesuit outfit. But in fanning the flames of revolt, these ultra-radical priests turned their catechists into targets of military repression.
Be that as it may, Francis is now making amends. Professor Harvey Cox from Harvard University writes in the Nation that one of the Pope's first gestures after his acclamation was to invite Peru's Gustavo Gutiérrez to Rome. This is highly significant. He is the priest who wrote the original "Magna Carta" for Liberation Theology in 1968, the symbol of the movement. They celebrated Mass together, then had breakfast.
Novak: True Catholic scholar?
As a Catholic, this Pope concerns me. Maybe he’s just playing rope-a-dope, but he comes off as a typical politician wooing both sides of an issue. It’s been seemingly hard to pin him down, or he has allowed himself to be easily misquoted/misconstrued. I hope that he has some long term plan to reel in the sheep with this strategy.
Don’t meddle, Expose it ALL.
The Black Pope
As opposed to Jesus, a first-century Palestinian Jew:
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. (Mat 26:11; Mk 14:7; and Jn 12:8)It was pronounced ineluctable far before America or "Europe" by the creator of the world — and utterly irrespective of economic/political/monetary system.
http://vassallomalta.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/under-pope-francis-liberation-theology-comes-of-age/
The question I have is that could it be that the Pope is really is warning against “crony capitalism” which is really socialism in a 3-piece suit?
If he is sounding off against “crony capitalism” he isn’t getting the message out very well. Personally, I think the Catholic Church has fallen to infiltration, just like our Federal Government.
Yes, he is a Jesuit. I understand.
.....With a “Francisian spirituality”.
Or maybe just interpeting it different.
Novak: True Catholic scholar?
Not being a Catholic I am doubtless a suspect source to be critiquing “a true Catholic scholar,” but having followed the link, all I see is an article entitled “Agreeing with Pope Francis” - and heavily quoting (and linking to) an encyclical by John Paul II.You might not like the implication that JP II knew something about economics that Francis doesn’t but - Novak asserts - a Papal Encyclical is a more weighty pronouncement than an Apostolic Exhortation. And, having lived under socialsm - starting under the Nazi occupation in 1940 and continuing under Soviet occupation straight through to his elevation to the papacy - JP II knew something about governmental “care” for the poor in practice.
Did it occur to the author that inviting the priest to breakfast, and celebrating Mass together doesn’t constitute the Pope’s approval of liberation theology?
I don’t know. I’m not the author; but please see Post 28.
The Pope should take note of the Tenth Commandment.
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