What makes you believe that socialists masquerading as “liberation theology” priests could never rise to power within the Church, force out a living pope, and install a secret Marxist?
Because in the opinion of millions of devout, Mass-going Catholics, that is exactly what has happened.
The liberation theology crowd might be purporting to supply a replacement for what Catholics have felt is missing in their communion — just a theory.
Face it, it hasn’t been easy for the Roman church to back out of the church/state melange model. It hasn’t even been easy for Protestants to do it, and the first ones didn’t fall all that far from the tree, knowing no other kind of world.
What’s really missing, IMHO, is a world-independent kind of agape love. If that came back, virtually all Christendom would transcend denominational differences in a light whose sparkle has scarcely been seen since the bible-era church.
Get the right thing going and the wrong thing will be crowded out.
And Francis’ Marxist bent isn’t all that secret. It’s just dressed in Christian colors.
He didn’t get there at random. Someone powerful wanted him there.