[GOP_Party_Animal]

The Catholic haters on FR would like you to think so.

[onedoug]

I studied Catholicism at 12 ‘cause my mom wanted to sing in their choir. Text was “Father Smith Instructs Jackson”.

Never converted, but it’s a pretty good book which I still have, and look to from time to time.

IMHO, the Pope cannot espouse his ‘communal sharing’ philosophy without encouraging covetousness, which is proscribed by the Tenth Commandment. Covetousness leads in an almost natural way to “bearing false witness” (No 9) and even to inducements to “steal” violating number 8.

This Vicar of Christ needs to get his act together.

[ckilmer]

My understanding is that the subtext of liberation theology is that that people who espouse it —take the low view of Christ. That is, that Jesus is just a man and not as well fully God.

That would come in contravention of the Nicean Creed.

Is that correct?

(This is the same heresy that is practiced unofficially in the liberal protestant churches that fell over dead in Europe and are currently dying in the USA. Its done soto voce.)

[metmom]

Pope Francis has close ties with liberation theology, the prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the body that once condemned the movement, has said. In a lengthy interview in the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller said Pope Francis “is not so much a liberation theologian in the academic sense, but as far as pastoral work is concerned, he has close ties with liberation theology’s concerns. What we can learn from him is the insight that there is no pastoral work without profound theology and vice versa”.

Do you disagree with what an official of the Catholic church has said?

Was the guy who said this wrong and how so?