Posted on 08/09/2020 6:35:27 PM PDT by marshmallow
SÃO PAULO – Over 1,500 priests have defended the bishops who signed a letter criticizing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after they came under attack from traditionalist clergy in the country.
A draft of the letter signed by 146 Brazilian bishops was leaked by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo on July 26.
Called a Letter to the People of God, the bishops blamed Bolsonaro for the ongoing political polarization in the country and claimed that his administration is too incompetent to manage the pandemic and its consequences.
The arch-conservative Catholic Institute Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (IPCO), posted a video on August 3 in which it accuses the prelates of being “Liberation Theology sympathizers.”
“The Bolsonaro administration certainly has problems, but it’s not because of them that those bishops, followers of the so-called ‘Christian’ left, criticize it. Those bishops are Liberation Theology supporters – at least a great part of them support it or sympathize with it,” IPCO member Frederico Viotti said in the video.
Viotti said Liberation Theology – a Progressive Catholic movement that saw its heyday in Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s – is a “heresy” which was condemned by the Church and that the bishops who signed the letter “don’t represent the Church doctrine.”
The bishops who signed the letter have been supported by a number of priests.
A July 30 letter was signed by 1,058 priests from all regions of Brazil, many of them associated with two recently formed movements, Padres da Caminhada (Priests who Walk) and Priests against Fascism.
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We need a pope from Africa.
Latin American Catholicism is just...bad news it seems.
Would it be because he leans towards Protestants and Evangelicals and not JUST following the bishops of the Catholic Church?
Most of Latin America appears to be corrupt. The gov. The Church. The law enforcement groups. The voters. The business owners, the workers. Each and every segment of Latin American society appears to be corrupt. And a lot of those people seem to think that the ultra corrupt Marxist liberation theology will straighten out the problems and every one will be so very much happier. Only an ivory tower idealist will think that there will be a solution.
“Most of Latin America appears to be corrupt”.
Your observation is quite accurate. Virtually every former Spanish Colony is a corrupt basketcase country. And, the vast majority have been corrupt basketcase countries for very many decades.
Former English and French colonies have fared much better.
It is interesting that so many of them want to immigrate here.
The problem is the young priests from the ‘70s and ‘80s that were steeped in Liberation Theology are now in power.
Catholics are mostly quite conservative as I an ex Catholic.
The priesthood has been infected by progressive Marxists and many homosexuals with an agenda that has nothing to do with traditional Catholic beliefs. They actually wish to destroy The Church of Rome.
Oddly this infection came from the sixties as these progressives became professors in our universities and seminaries.
Today I unfortunately attend a non Catholic church as my church left me. I had no choice. It is a conservative church.
I miss the tradition of the old Mass. That is mostly gone now with the exception in the Spanish community. Went to Mass a while back with my wife, she is from Mexico and I am a gringo that speaks Spanish. It was for Ash Wednesday in San Antonio. The priest was a gringo that spoke decent Spanish but not perfect. It was okay and much enjoyed.
have a good day
Author sounds like a leftist. “The arch-conservative Catholic Institute Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira...” Calling the normal Institute “arch whatever” is a personal opinion and insulting to the members of the Institute. The fathers needs to try living a celibate life and worry less about Covid numbers.
“I miss the tradition of the old Mass.”
I would miss it, too. Thankfully, it is around everywhere today. Go find it and get back to the plow.
If you wonder why Latin Americans are leaving the Church in droves....well, wonder no more.
Uh, look again.
It is just like the Philippine bishops who are attacking Duterte over human rights for getting rid of drug dealers... Duterte hates the crooked people running the church and the Evangelicals support Duterte.
Never mind these presidents make people safer and don’t steal millions of dollars like the socialist presidents the bishops liked in the past.
As for controlling the virus...sounds like the US, he is doing a lot of testing. Countries not testing report fewer deaths.
And of course they report numbers per country, not cases per million or death rate per million.
All of Latin America is in the midst of a huge epidemic, and they blame him? Yup. Propaganda.
Here in the Philippines we were in virtual lockdown for months, and Manila is still isolated...our drivers delivering rice there need a health certificate and a negative teat to get into the city...and unlike past years, Duterte has cleaned up the cops so you can’t bribe them.
Yet the Philippines now is supposed to have more cases than China according to the headlines. Sheesh. Fake news.
No. Survey after survey has reported in detail that at least half of those whom Rome manifestly considers to be members in life and in death are liberal, and traditionalists make up a small minority. In contrast to those who most strongly esteemed as the accurate and wholly inspired word of God, with its basic literal hermeneutic, who have long testified to being the most conservative and unified large religious body.
Oddly this infection came from the sixties as these progressives became professors in our universities and seminaries.
When leadership is made the supreme authority than than unchanging Scripture (as described above) then when leadership goes South then so do the flock that follows them, while dissident TradCaths essentially become like fundamental evangelicals in that they determine the validity of church teaching based upon their judgment of what past church teaching says and means.
But for us it is Scripture, while besides liberal theology,distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).
1,500 Brazilian? How many zeros is that??
Catholics are not mostly conservative. If anything they're mostly pagan. That being said, there are a lot of prosperity gospel Protestant churches in these places as well. But the difference between Protestants and Catholics is that Protestants generally act upon false teachings when they see it. Catholics just shrug their shoulders because it's all part of the Church.
I smell the aroma of another Martin Luther; waiting in the wings.
And because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.
But the one who endures to the end, he shall be saved.
—Matthew 24:12-13
See my reply above
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