Yes, he is the legacy of politically corrupted priests in Central and South America. They were subverted by the Communist plan to change them, suttelly, from following Jesus to following Marx. Ion Pacepa has written much about this subversion of the Catholic Church in Latin America by the KGB. We see this now in the US via the “social justice” and “humanist” movement that attack Catholic and Protestant Churches here.
Yes... if it even vaguely reflects the Lord, these worldly schemes hate the dickens out of it and try to repurpose them to an idolatry of man, to greater or lesser success.
Roman Catholic churches and Protestant/Evangelical churches are affected. It’s easy to put a scheme of man (that in turn the devil wants) in the place that we should accord to Jesus, and the result is disaster and tragedy.
The Protestant piece of the church should not be saying ah, this is only a Catholic issue, we don’t need to care. Because the same devil is knocking on the door of both houses.
Some of the liberation theologians have switched costumes and now style themselves “Eco-theologians” (e.g., ex-priest Leonardo Boff and Rev. Sean MacDonagh). Their slant is embodied in places in the global warming encyclical, Laudato Si’, where one also finds applause for Teilhard de Chardin.