Posted on 05/02/2014 2:08:03 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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The most radical theologians followers of the Marxist Liberation Theology rejoice with the election of cardinal Bergoglio as Pope Francis. Are we now in a Catholic version of the Muslim taquiyya?
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.
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.
We pray to God that the followers of the Marxist Liberation Theology are wrong and that Pope Francis is going to prove to be as loyal to the True Faith as was Pope Wojty and Pope Ratzinger.
To say that: “The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger spent much of his tenure at Mueller’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith” is a very incorrect and confusing phrase. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith don’t belongs to Mueller. Neither Ratzinger worked under Mueller, just the opposite. Ratzinger was the Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1981 to 2005 under John Paul II, later, in 2012, already as Pope Benedict XVI, Ratzinger made Mueller Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. There is not two Ratzinger, as there is not two Reagan. Mueller doesn’t have the acumen, nor the theological formation and orthodoxy of Benedict XVI, one of the most intellectually gifted among all popes.
Neither, unfortunately, does Pope Francis.
Thanks for your informative post. Liberation theology is a system centered around “the poor” rather than Christ. A pseudo-Christian retrofit of a concept with rotten marxist roots will inevitably bear rotten fruit.
“Preferential option for the poor” is a term coined by liberation theologians. The Christian interpretation of “the poor” is not confined to the economic realm; rather it extends to those who are needy or helpless in some way (e.g. the unborn, the aged, etc.) and to anyone suffering and thus in need of Christian Charity.
Similarly, the Church has rejected Marxism (as you pointed out) but that does not mean the assaults on the gates will end. Francis voices his support for "just a little Marxism" as he tries to square such beliefs with his predecessors. He will not be able to, and will never be remembered as a great pope. What he will do is sow confusion among Catholics and non-Catholics regarding such matters. In so doing, he will allow people to carry forth their misinterpretations regarding our faith, such as the many nutjobs on Free Republic.
From “Dark REBELLION in the Church” - Jesuits, theology of liberation, Carmelites, Marianists and Socialists: the final complaint.” Ricardo de la Cierva. P. 11-13
“Your theology helps the transformation of Latin America more than millions of books on Marxism” Fidel Castro to Leonardo Boff and Frei Beto in the presence of the Spanish Bishop in Brazil, Pedro Casáldiga, C.M.F., who plays end the phrase in his book Nicaragua, combat and prophecy, Madrid, helped, 1986, p.134
“The Mission of the Jesuits in the third world is to create conflict. We are the only powerful group in the world that makes it.” César Jerez S. J., provincial of Central America 1976-1982, at a meeting of Jesuits in Boston, New England Jesuit News, April, 1973.
“At the same time we Christians are children of a Virgin and a whore (Ivan Illich) and believe that this is the truth.” Ernesto Cardenal, priest and then Minister of Nicaragua, in the biography of J. L. González, Salamanca, “Follow me”, 1978, p.23
“Are the Communists, and not the Jesuits, who are winning the battle of atheism.” Igor Bonchkovski in New Times, n.40, Moscow, 1975
“The national planning of the Society of Jesus in the United States should, following the example of China, become an international planning. Towards the convergence of problems in all areas of the world around a single theme: the construction in different times and forms of a world Communist society.” Strategic document of a group of Dutch Jesuits - in collaboration with other Jesuit revolutionaries—published for internal debate in the official journal of the society of Jesus in the United States, National Jesuit News, April 1972.
“The chapter on the closure (on the new constitutions for the Discalced Carmelites, dictated by the Holy See) is unacceptable theological, religious and humanly speaking. It instills the fear, suspicion and some environment proper of the 16th century.” Letter from the Barefoot Carmelites provincial of Spain and Portugal to the cardinal Hamer, prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the religious, who had commanded the project, March 10, 1987, ABC, 25-IV-87, p.73
“Socialist societies are very ethical, clean, physically and morally. If it weren’t for his materialist doctrine it could be argued that they carried out the ethical teaching of the social doctrine of the Church.” Leonardo Boff on his return from a trip to Moscow, cfr.ABC, 16-VII-87, p.45
“Marxism provides a scientific understanding of the mechanisms of oppression in the world, at local and national levels; It offers the vision of a new world which must be built as a socialist society, the first step to a classless society, where genuine brotherhood can be hopefully possible, and by which deserves sacrifice everything.” Declaration of the theological Association of India in the magazine Vidyajyoti, of the Theological Faculty of the Jesuits in Delhi, April, 1986
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