[beaversmom]

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[Alex Murphy]

L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s official newspaper, devoted its centre spread to defending the virtues of liberation theology, which had been anathema since the Cold War. “With a Latin American Pope, liberation theology could not remain for long in the shadows to which it has been relegated for some years, at least in Europe,” wrote Ugo Sartorio, a priest and editor of a Catholic magazine. Father Sartorio even argued in his piece yesterday that, while serving as archbishop of Buenos Aires, the Pope had been an exponent of the Argentine version of liberation theology.

Oh, this should be good.

[mjp]

to rehabilitate the leftist Catholic movement known as “liberation theology”

Altruism and a formal economic policy of using force and aggression to take from the rich and give to the poor the unearned, the undeserved, and something for nothing will end up making things worse for the poor in the long run.

Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan are the models of what nations need to do to cure poverty. They must start with a pro-business environment combined with austerity. Everyone must save rather than consume and use the savings to begin the process of capital accumulation.In addition to capital accumulation, there must be respect for private property, a rational culture, and technological progress.These requirements are the exact opposite of the marxism and socialism of liberation theology.

[Little Ray]

So, how much of this is true and how much is just journalistic bomb throwing?

[bunkerhill7]

If he`s really serious, Pope Francis should do an Anthony Quinn-
“Shoes of the Fisherman”
“ the Pope cedes all the church holdings to the poor and resumes the church’s mission in poverty...” NY times, 2010

Virtue Talks, BS Walks

[txrefugee]

Let the Catholic church divest itself of its holdings in Rome and give it all to the poor. Talk is cheap.

[Boogieman]

“The church has a preferential option for the poor . . . But it’s also always clarified that it’s not an exclusive option, or one that excludes anyone. The church must not assume Marxist categories, or class struggle.”

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Yet Liberation Theology, at its heart, is all about class struggle and Marxism. It is not legitimate theology even, it is simply Marxism disguised by a thin veneer that imitates theology. So, you can’t advocate for that and still denounce Marxism. You can’t serve two masters.

[haffast]

Archbishop Muller co-authors a book with Gustavo Gutierrez

Above you see a photo from the launching of the book Taking the Side of the Poor - Liberation Theology (An der Seit der Armen - Theologie der Berfewuing) co-authored by Dominican Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez and Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Muller. The event took place in Regensburg in 2004 and was promoted by Augsburg Sankt Ulrich Verlag.
http://www.traditioninaction.org/RevolutionPhotos/A479-Muller-3.htm

"Müller was also a pupil of Gustavo Gutiérrez, the “father” of Latin-American liberation theology, with whom he has a long and close friendship.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3047023/posts?page=6#6

Peace Made Between Müller and Gutiérrez. But Bergoglio Isn't Falling For It
Sandro Magister - ROME, September 5, 2013
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350589?eng=y

On the Charismatic Renewal Movement- Pope Francis

“At the end of the 70s, early 80s, I couldn’t see them. I once said they must confuse liturgical celebration with samba lessons! Then I got to know them better and I was won over. I saw the work that they did and I said mass for them in Buenos Aires every year. I think movements are necessary; they are a gift from the Holy Spirit. The Church is free; the Holy Spirit does what it wants.”
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/gmg-26831//pag/1/

[Lera]

“This new Pope is supporting a fresh look at the situation of the poor all over the world,” said Marco Politi, an author of books on the Vatican. “What is coming is this ‘people’s theology’, which seems very much about the poor and the rift between the poor and the rich.”

There is no room for God , the Gospel , the Bible with "peoples theology" . This is just ANOTHER FALSE GOSPEL pushed by busybodies that want to make sure to get their cut

The Bible says if you don't work you don't eat:
(2 Thessalonians 3:10) For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

(2 Thessalonians 3:11) For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

(2 Thessalonians 3:12) Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

THE GOSPEL - God's salvation plan for mankind
http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?42-God-s-Salvation-Plan-for-Mankind

[freerepublicchat]

I suspected this as soon as I heard that a South American had become pope. Catholic Marxism is all the rage south of the boarder.

"Thou shalt not steal"

...unless you vote in a the government to do it for you -- then it's okay.

[count-your-change]

The question that seems to hang in the air like a fading musical note is this:

Since Christ could perform miracles like causing an empty net to fill with fish, a great profit to the fishermen, or cause a fish to spit up a coin to pay taxes, why did he not spend more time curing poverty around the country? Israel certainly had enough poor people yet Jesus emphasis wasn’t on fund raisers or a ‘church of the poor’.

[Mamzelle]

This is an unwholesome development. Let’s hope it’s not so. “Liberation Theology” is very Jeremiah Wright.

[LadyDoc]

there is a difference between supporting the poor and supporting a theology that replaces Jesus with a socialist state.

Here in the Philippines, the bishops are against the rich folks who have a monopoly on business and the government while stealing everything in sight. That is not quite the same thing as liberation theology....

Of course, what they don’t push is the idea of capitalism as the way to increase the wealth for the poor...so the up and coming middle class are often protestant: these churches stress personal responsibility and honesty...making jobs for the poor, not donating to the poor with the right hand while you accept bribes with the left hand.

[wardaddy]

Uh huh

Fox is in the henhouse again