“I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Are you saying there millions of Buddhists in Asia (Japan? Vietnam? Elsewhere?) who contribute to the maintenance of Catholic church buildings? I am not aware of any such, but perhaps you know more than I.”
The only thing I know along those lines concerns an elite of so-called Asian Liberation Theologians, the foremost of whom was Tissa Balasuriya, who was excommunicated for his errors by Pope John Paul II. Later, as I heard, he retracted his offensive published materials, and the excommunication was lifted.
I don't know that he has millions, thousands, or even hundreds in his following. His supporters are "the usual subjects" who are surprisingly non-Asian, and have mostly been disciplined by the CDF and/or have excommunicated themselves: Rosemary Radford-Ruether, Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Leonardo Boff, Matthew Fox, Edward Schillebeeck, Karl Rahner, Raimondo Pannikar and Raymond Brown.
As I said, the expected aging-academic-apostate Rogue's Gallery.
If you want to say the discipline in such cases has been neither swift, clear, not comprehensive--- then regrettably you're right.
However Asian Liberation/pluralism supporters accuse the present pope, Benedict, of being a "fascist" for opposing Balasuriya, and say Benedict is attempting to lead the Catholic Church in a "fundamentalist" direction.
:o)
Cause for renewed hope!
In the midst of a worldwide battle.
The only thing I know along those lines concerns an elite of so-called Asian Liberation Theologians, the foremost of whom was Tissa Balasuriya, who was excommunicated for his errors by Pope John Paul II. Later, as I heard, he retracted his offensive published materials, and the excommunication was lifted.
I don't know that he has millions, thousands, or even hundreds in his following. His supporters are "the usual subjects" who are surprisingly non-Asian, and have mostly been disciplined by the CDF and/or have excommunicated themselves: Rosemary Radford-Ruether, Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Leonardo Boff, Matthew Fox, Edward Schillebeeck, Karl Rahner, Raimondo Pannikar and Raymond Brown.
As I said, the expected aging-academic-apostate Rogue's Gallery.
If you want to say the discipline in such cases has been neither swift, clear, not comprehensive--- then regrettably you're right.
However Asian Liberation/pluralism supporters accuse the present pope, Benedict, of being a "fascist" for opposing Balasuriya, and say Benedict is attempting to lead the Catholic Church in a "fundamentalist" direction.
:o)
Cause for renewed hope!
In the midst of a worldwide battle.
I have read that Africa tribal Catholics sacrifice animals during the mass..you see the addition of primitive music dances, and pagan practices in South America and I recently read that in Haiti allow people to continue VooDoo.
There is little attempt to convert people to Christ, it is all about the numbers for the church