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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As are a flock of legislators in our own government!
11 Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”
12 “Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done
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