Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
by Fr. Robert Sirico - FrontPageMagazine.com | 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. ...”
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WCC [World Council of Churches] welcomes meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill for unity and peace
[note Cuban president Raul Castro, Fidel's murderous brother, off to the right]
Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has issued a statement on behalf of the Council hailing the historic meeting of Pope Francis, pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, and Patriarch Kirill, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The two leaders met on 12 February in Havana, Cuba.
The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest member church in the WCC..."
https://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/wcc-welcomes-meeting-of-pope-francis-and-patriarch-kirill
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (WCC)
Pope Francis: Liberation Theology Was Good for Latin America
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
Jan 27, 2017
In a controversial interview, Pope Francis has publicly defended Liberation Theology, calling it a positive thing in Latin America. ..."
In a striking revelation in 2015, the highest ranking Cold War defector asserted that the KGB had created Liberation Theology, exporting it to Latin America as a means of introducing Marxism into the continent.
Ion Mihai Pacepa, a 3-star general and former head of Communist Romanias secret police who defected to the United States in 1978, has been called the Cold Wars most important defector. During the more than ten years that Pacepa worked with the CIA, he made what the agency described as an important and unique contribution to the United States.
He is reported in fact to have given the CIA the best intelligence ever obtained on communist intelligence networks and internal security services.
Liberation theology has been generally understood to be a marriage of Marxism and Christianity.
What has not been understood is that it was not the product of Christians who pursued Communism, but of Communists who pursued Christians, Pacepa said.
In his role as doctrinal watchdog, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger referred to Liberation Theology as a singular heresy and a fundamental threat to the Church.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/01/27/pope-francis-liberation-theology-good-latin-america/
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Liberation Theology Activist: Pope Francis Is One of Us
by Stefan Farrar
December 27, 2016
BERLIN (ChurchMilitant.com) - The main figurehead of liberation theology in the 1980s is praising Pope Francis, and criticizing the signatories of the recently sent dubia.
Leonardo Boff, a main proponent for liberation theology in Brazil throughout his life, gave an interview to the German newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger in Berlin, which was published on Christmas.
Boff entered the Franciscan order in 1959 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1964, where he became a controversial figure with his prominent advocacy of left-wing causes. During his priesthood, he became a vocal critic of capitalism and a strong proponent of liberation theology.
Liberation theology is a religious movement that offers a Marxist understanding of poverty and oppression, and which had its start in South America in the 1960s.
One KGB defector who later converted to Catholicism claimed it was a movement created by the KGB and spread by willing South American bishops. ...
Lots more at link...
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/liberation-theology-activist-pope-francis-is-one-of-us
