Pope Francis Invokes Themes of Liberation Theology During Mexican Visit

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine

Monday, May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's "Black Liberation"(Communist) pastor for 20+ years

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"

photo Obama Wright PHOTO Black Liberation Theology 01_zps2tqyrbtc.jpg

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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright and Dr. William Ayers
are greeted by Rebekah Levin with the Committee
for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine.
(Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune / May 17, 2009)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers_wrightmay18,0,6689521.story
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Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama's pastor in a heated interview about his Church's teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190904/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190909/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

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Re: James Cone, founder of "Black Liberation Theology":

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a - reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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photo Black Liberation - James Cone book 02_zpsryaynzyb.jpg

The Black church and Marxism: what do they have to say to each other
by Cone, James H. 1938- . Harrington, Michael 1928-1989

https://archive.org/details/TheBlackChurchAndMarxismWhatDoTheyHaveToSayToEachOther

Liberation Theology and the KGB

Jay Richards | February 2, 2010

The presence of Marxism in liberation theology is well-known, at least to seminarians who are critical readers. Practically every seminarian reads Gustavo Gutierrez's Theology of Liberation at some point, but most laypeople find it hard to believe that there could have been (and continues to be) a widespread attempt to hybridize Christian theology and Marxism.

Marxist regimes obviously benefited from the spread of liberation theology in the churches. Still, I was not aware of any connections between liberation theology and communist clandestine organizations until now.

A new article by Robert D. Chapman in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence begins to connect some dots. In "The Church in Revolution," Chapman, "a retired operations officer in the Clandestine Services Division of the Central Intelligence Agency," argues that the KGB infiltrated the Russian Orthodox Church through Metropolitan Nikodim, the Russian Orthodoxy's second-ranking prelate. Nikodim was a proponent of liberation theology. Nikodim was active in the otherwise-Protestant World Council of Churches. And the WCC, of course, became an actively left-wing organization during the last half of the 20th century.

Chapman also details the growth of liberation theology in Latin America-and the Vatican's struggles with it-and the growth of black liberation theology in the United States. Prominent proponents of the latter include James Cone and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The arguments of liberation theologians should be challenged on their merits. The source of an argument, after all, doesn't establish its truth or falsity. Still, it's interesting to learn that liberation theology may have been, at least in part, a project of the KGB.

Unfortunately, this isn't just history. Chapman concludes ominously:

"the Theology of Liberation doctrine is one of the most enduring and powerful to emerge from the KGB's headquarters. The doctrine asks the poor and downtrodden to revolt and form a Communist government, not in the name of Marx or Lenin, but in continuing the work of Jesus Christ, a revolutionary who opposed economic and social discrimination.

A friend of mine, a head of Catholic social services in my area and formerly a priest, is a liberation theologian. He has made a number of humanitarian trips to Central America and told me, "liberation theology is alive and well." The same can be said of its sibling in the United States [ie, Black Liberation Theology]."

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2010/02/liberation-theology-and-the-kgb/

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More on Liberation Theology and the Soviets
Catholic News Agency ^ | 5/15/2015 | Alejandro Bermudez

If the Soviet bloc wasn't the mother of liberation theology, it was certainly a sinister stepmother, enlisting Catholics in a geopolitical cause and inviting them to sell their souls for funding and support.

Only the naive can disregard the mountain of evidence connecting liberation theology with Soviet action in the region.

(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...

Pope Bernie or Pope Wright?

Pretty incredible that this very long article that you linked to fails to mention even once Obama or Wright.

Thanks for the spam.

Rev Wright was just a typical pastor in the United Church of Christ, which is also typical of Chicago Catholic and United Methodist Pastors and pastors of other main-stream denominations.

In the 70s and 80s in Chicago there was open financial and personnel support of the Sandanistas, fundraising dances and raffles, non-profits funneling war-on-poverty money to the cause, pastors assuring people the money in the collection plate was going to the cause, and not for the pastor to have a fancy car.... But Catholic priests were allowed to share a townhouse in boystown.

Singling out Rev Wright as if he were out of the mainstream is just not accurate.

“spam? Are you REALLY that stupid? (no need to reply, the answer couldn’t be more obvious)

Who said or implied Wright was out of the ordinary? But given who sat in his “church” for 20+ years, there should be at least some mention of him in this fairly lengthy article. This is the sort of crap you see posted in the New York Times, where they try to hide glaring stuff like this from their readers. And how does the marshmallow who posted the piece here not mention it.

The pontiff denounced "triumphalism" and "fundamentalism" in religious practice

TRANSLATION: Jorge hates those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and who believe the Bible is true.

Rev Wright was just a typical pastor in the United Church of Christ

National Council of Churches: Worldviews, Activities, and Agendas

By Jacob Laksin
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
2005

Since its founding in 1950, the New York City-based National Council of Churches (NCC) has remained faithful to the legacy of its predecessor, the Communist front-group known as the Federal Council of Churches, which the NCC absorbed in 1950. At one time an unabashed apostle of the Communist cause, the NCC has today recast itself as a leading representative of the so-called religious Left. Adhering to what it has described as 'liberation theology'-that is, Marxist ideology disguised as Christianity-the NCC lays claim to a membership of 36 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox Christian denominations, and some 50 million members in over 140,000 congregations.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the NCC has soft-pedaled its radical message, dressing up its demands for global collectivization and its rejection of democratic capitalism in the garb of religious teachings. Yet the organization's history suggests that it was-and remains-a devout backer of a gallery of socialist governments.

In the 1950s and 1960s, under cover of charity, the NCC provided financial succor to the Communist regimes in Yugoslavia and Poland, funneling money to both through its relief agency, the Church World Service.

In the 1970s, working with its Geneva-based parent organization, the World Council of Churches, the NCC supplied financial support for Soviet-sponsored incursions into Africa, aiding the terrorist rampages of Communist guerrillas in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, and Angola. ..."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/nccexpandedagenasactivities.html

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Reverend Wright's "church" was/is part of the far left "National Council of Churches" (he's supposedly since retired from Trinity).
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"Trinity United Church of Christ is a predominantly African-American church with more than 8,500 members, located in the Washington Heights community on the South Side of Chicago.[1]

It is the largest church affiliated with the United Church of Christ, a predominantly white Christian denomination with roots in Congregationalism, which historically branched from early American Puritanism.[2]"

"In early 2008, as part of their presidential election coverage, news media outlets and political commentators brought Trinity to national attention when controversial excerpts of sermons by the church's longtime former pastor Jeremiah Wright were broadcast to highlight Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's relationship with Wright and the church."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_United_Church_of_Christ
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From the National Council of Churches website...

These 37 member communions come together in covenant community as the National Council of Churches to offer common witness to Jesus Christ and to share in a ministry of reconciliation to the world in his name. Together, they include more than 45 million people in over 100,000 congregations in the United States.

African Methodist Episcopal Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Alliance of Baptists

American Baptist Churches in the USA

Armenian Church of America, Eastern and Western Dioceses

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Church of the Brethren

Community of Christ

Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of North America

Ecumenical Catholic Communion

The Episcopal Church (USA)

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

Hungarian Reformed Church in America

International Council of Community Churches

Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad

Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American Diocese

Mar Thoma Church

Moravian Church in America, Northern and Southern Provinces

National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.

National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.

National Missionary Baptist Convention of America

Orthodox Church in America

Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA

Polish National Catholic Church

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.

Reformed Church in America

Religious Society of Friends, Friends United Meeting

Religious Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America

The Swedenborgian Church of North America

Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, Archdiocese of the Eastern United States

Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA

United Church of Christ [Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ is the largest affiliate of United Church of Christ]

The United Methodist Church

source link:
http://www.nationalcouncilofchurches.us/about/member-communions.php

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Re: National Council of Churches

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: Institute For Policy Studies (IPS)

IPS's [Institute For Policy Studies] Washington, DC headquarters quickly became a resource center for national reporters and a place for KGB agents from the nearby Soviet embassy to convene and strategize. Cora Weiss headed one of the IPS's most successful forays -- into Riverside Church in Manhattan. She was invited there in 1978 by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin to run the church's Disarmament Program, which sought to consolidate Soviet nuclear superiority in Europe -- in the name of "peace." In 1982 Weiss helped organize the largest pro-disarmament demonstration ever held. Staged in New York City, the rally was attended by a coalition of communist organizations.

During her decade-long tenure at Riverside, which became home to the National Council of Churches, Weiss regularly received Russian KGB agents, Sandinista friends, and Cuban intelligence agents. Weiss became infamous for her role in the psychological warfare conducted against U.S. prisoners of war held in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam War.

The Liberation News Service, which is a news source for hundreds of "alternative" publications nationwide (with antiwar, Marxist-oriented perspectives), was founded in 1967 with IPS assistance."

[lots more at link...]

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991

Well, that says it all. Liberation Theology is communism wrapped in religion. It is not Christianity, it leads Christians toward evil. Just like Black Liberation Theology did for Barky;s “church.”

Thank you, ETL. I admire your thorough research and persistent desire to spread accurate information. It is fascinating to read your work and, when tired, easy to skim through.

Pope Francis uses suspicious terms in his Laudato Si encyclical in 2015 which I found boring to read. “Transform this, unite that, marginalize this, consensus that.” Boring. JP II and Benedict XVI’s encyclicals were brilliant and solid.

You are right, Chicongo has been the epicenter of communism in America for decades. Frank Marshall Davis, card carrying communist, lived there before he moved to Hawaii where he bacame Barack Hussein Obama’s mentor.

satan crackhead pope imposter

a commie useless pos

Thank you. I appreciate all that. Drives me nuts sometimes when some dope dismisses it as “spam”.

The KGB was responsible for concocting this poisonous brew of Marxism and Christianity and infecting both Catholic and Protestant Christian denominations. Pope John Paul II and other Popes, including the current Pope Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, warned about the heresy of Liberation Theology. By his public utterances, it appears that Pope Francis has drunk the poisoned Kool-Aid of Liberation Theology created by the Russian KGB.

The Pope's embrace of a leading Mexican clerical purveyor of this heresy is NOT a good sign for Mexico or Catholics trying to fight this evil.

Ruiz was reputed to encourage a syncretistic approach to indigenous cultural practices, seeking to promote indigenous traditions rather than teaching the gospel to the locals, and resulting in a mixture of pagan and Catholic practices among the Maya of the region that remains to this day.

Once again, Catholicism mixes with everything under the sun other than 1)Judaism and 2)American-style Fundamentalist Protestantism. Someone want to tell me why "indigenous" Maya beliefs are okay but the American Fundamentalist reading of Genesis 1-11 is excluded as "inherently un-Catholic???"

I also wish someone would explain to me why Leftists (who are, after all, the followers of an ideology based on European rationalism and materialism) are so keen on the spiritual beliefs of these "indigenous peoples." How are the traditional religious beliefs of these groups any more "rational" or "scientific" than Fundamentalist Protestantism?

I mean it. This alliance between atheist materialists and witch doctors is like a bad professional wrestling angle.

I read all 38 comments at the link.

Is there anything said by Wright that has not been said for decades on a regular basis by Chicago Theological Seminary, McCormick Theological Seminary and Mundelein Seminary?

Mundelein Seminary produces more Catholic Priests than almost any other Catholic Seminary in the US. And it is more separated from reality than the Protestant Seminarys. Protestant Liberation Theology Seminarys recognize things like the law of supply and demand. Mundelein Liberation Theology lacks those kinds of concepts.