Posted on 05/11/2015 3:56:24 PM PDT by Islander7
For decades, Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest, was treated with suspicion and even contempt by the Vaticans hierarchy, which saw him as a dangerous Marxist firebrand who used faith as an instrument of revolution.
Gutiérrez was the founder of a progressive movement within the Catholic church known as liberation theology, and while he was never censured in the manner that some of his philosophical compatriots were, there were often rumblings that Gutiérrez was being investigated by Pope John Paul IIs doctrinal czar, a German cardinal named Joseph Ratzinger who would later become Pope Benedict.
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Eagerly awaiting the next Conclave.
The Vatican City State HAS become a banana republic.
Remember the way hundreds of books were stolen FROM THE POST OFFICE during the Sin-Nod?
Remember how goons roughed up the “climate deniers” recently, at the Pope’s stacked-with-alarmists conference?
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