Ping
“In effect: The Gospel of Jesus Christ should be proclaimed and inculturated! Clearly, this does not mean taking European or Western culture to the indigenous. It means offering Christ as the Saviour and Redeemer, friend and brother, along with his calls for changing one’s life, family, social relations, the world of economics, the rejection of idols, slavery, and the forces of the natural world. That the Gospel truly enter into their cultures. This is how to inculturate the Gospel.”
I want to hear more from this guy! Of course, he is “emeritus” which means the Vatican does not care so much what he thinks, and he has been replaced by somebody of lesser quality, no doubt.
**Syncretism is the incorporation of non-Christian rituals and beliefs into authentic Catholicism.**
New word for me.
I’ve been following this whole debacle. Yesterday, several men took the pagan pachamama idols from the church and chucked them in the Tiber River! Those men are heroes!
The “Pope of Santeria.”