Helder Câmara: a lifetime of working against the Church - And they want to beatify him?...

Rorate Caeli ^ | April 7, 2015 | Corrispondenza Romana

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Perhaps the biggest falsehood about Helder Camara is the one that presents him as a friend of the poor and defender of freedom.

The title, defender of freedom fits very badly on one who sang the praises of some of the bloodiest dictatorships that constellated the 20th century; first Nazism, and then Communism in all of its variants: Soviet, Cuban, Chinese…

Most of all, however, the title friend of the poor does not fit at all one who sustained regimes that have caused such terrifying poverty, described by the then Cardinal Ratzinger as “the shame of our times.”

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Monsignor Helder Camara is also remembered as one of the champions of the so-called “Liberation Theology” condemned by the Vatican in 1984.

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There has been a lot of talk recently about Dom Helder Camara, whose process for beatification has been recently approved by the Vatican.

This is all it says about where this stands. Hopefully, it will go nowhere.