Posted on 01/16/2022 4:25:01 PM PST by ebb tide
Catholicism is rapidly losing ground to Protestants in Latin America, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Seven countries in the region — Uruguay, the Dominican Republic and five in Central America — had a majority of non-Catholics in 2018, according to a survey by Latinobarómetro, a Chilean-based pollster,” it reports. “In a symbolic milestone, Brazil, which has the most Catholics of any country in the world, is expected to become minority-Catholic as soon as this year, according to estimates by academics that track religious affiliation.”
The report confirms what critics of liberation theology feared: that its politicized and spiritually insubstantial version of the faith would alienate, not attract, religiously minded Latin Americans.
Anticipating the confusion and division liberation theology would cause the Church in Latin America, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI condemned it as a distortion of the Gospel. “This conception of Christ as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive of Nazareth does not tally with the Church’s catechism,” said Pope John Paul II. Pope Benedict XVI called liberation theology a “singular heresy” — a “fusing of the Bible’s view of history with Marxist dialectics.”
Does the hierarchy even care if Latin America goes non-Catholic?
Liberation theology’s proponents said that it would invigorate the faith in Latin America. But it clearly hasn’t.
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So they want to invigorate the faith by changing it into another faith, essentially. Rather Orwellian but that’s what we expect from lefties.
I think Islam will take over Latin America within 50 years.
I was raised Catholic in the era of post-war Catholic triumphalism which ended in the wake of Vatican II. In about 10 years or less, we went from Bishop Sheen to the Berrigans. A malaise, a lack of conviction, set in which continues to this day. Protestant evangelicalism still has zeal for the faith, whereas mainstream (Biden/Pelosi) Catholicism and liberal Protestantism are characterized by capitulation to secular mores.
I think Islam will take over Latin America within 50 years.
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I will pay as much attention to your opinions as to those of any raving lunatic.
Our problem is named Jorge.
Justices Thomas and Alito say hi, as well as Cardinals Chaput & Cordeleone.
Justices Thomas and Alito say hi, as well as Cardinals Chaput & Cordeleone.
I’m grateful for every soul that turns from any useless religion of works to salvation in Christ by faith.
Why should they leave the one true faith for the heresy of mad Marty?
I pray for those same souls you are “grateful” for.
Satan is also grateful for those poor souls.
—> Why should they leave the one true faith
They should go to saving faith in Christ. Salvation is found in no other person, nor church.
—> I pray for those same souls you are “grateful” for.
Rather, you should pray for your own soul, since you’ve said you are not saved.
Those who’ve come to saving faith in Christ are right where God wants them for eternity.
Bearing false witness is a sin.
I have been to Latin America. Catholicism didn’t have far it could decline. Pretty much has been at rock bottom for a while.
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