Posted on 05/28/2015 5:07:21 PM PDT by ebb tide
One has the impression that under Francis the Church is becoming, in her human element, the equivalent of a banana republic, replete with Latin American-style demagoguery, exalting the poor and depicting them as always the innocent victims of the greedy rich. Our Lord said: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 5:3)." Francis' version of this beatitude is: "blessed are the poor" — apparently just because they are poor. He has even gone so far as to suggest that the poor be treated as objects of veneration before whom we should literally kneel when they enter a Church. That is as blasphemous as it is ridiculous.
But such is the Latin American, liberal Jesuit theology from the Seventies in which Francis seems to be mired: long on emotion and appeals to class envy and short on fidelity to the actual teaching of the Gospel. And no matter what the Pope's defenders say in their constant attempts to defend the indefensible, it all smacks of the very thing John Paul II and Benedict XVI rightly condemned: liberation theology, which seeks to harness the Church to the aims of Marxist revolution.
Does this claim seem extravagant? Whoever thinks so should explain why Pope Francis rehabilitated precisely the same liberation theologian, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, whom John Paul II suspended from the priesthood thirty years ago. This flaming Marxist subversive received the Lenin Peace Prize, was an official of the Communist-infiltrated World Council of Churches, and served as a foreign minister in the Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. He was also President of the UN General Assembly from 2008-2009, in which capacity he gave a speech declaring that "we are all sons and daughters of Earth and that we belong to her," calling for a "planetary civilization" that is "more respectful of Mother Earth, more inclusive of all people and with more solidarity with the poorest, which is more spiritual and full of reverence for the splendor of the universe and which is much happier."
Immediately upon the restoration of his priestly faculties by Francis, this unrepentant Marxist maniac declared:
The Vatican may silence everyone, then God will make the stones speak, and may the stones spread his message, but He didn't do this, He chose the greatest Latin-American of all time: Fidel Castro…. It is through Fidel Castro that the Holy Spirit sends us the message. This message of Jesus, of the need to struggle to establish, firmly and irreversibly, the kingdom of God on this earth... That is the essence of the heresy of liberation theology: that the Holy Spirit works through communist dictators to establish God's kingdom on earth. The result in practice is violent revolution in the name of the poor so that the revolutionaries can live a life of luxury on the backs of the very poor they claim to have liberated, after expropriating to themselves all the goods of the rich (but only the local rich, not the international bankers who financed their revolution).
No wonder both John Paul II and Benedict XVI treated liberation theology as utterly incompatible with the Catholic Faith. But now the liberal "Catholic" media are pleased to report that "under Pope Francis, liberation theology comes of age." The attempt to "baptize" liberation theology by promoting its socialist core without the practice of violent revolution appears to be a key element of what Antonio Socci has so rightly called "Bergoglianism," even if Francis prudently avoids overtly embracing it personally. Rather, he lets his actions speak for him.
And those actions could not speak more loudly. Just days ago — incredibly enough — a cause was commenced for the beatification of none other than Archbishop Helder Câmara, one of the worst Marxist and Modernist subversives in the modern history of the Church. Câmara was not only a veritable icon of liberation theology, but was also an opponent of Humanae Vitae, an advocate of women's ordination and divorce for Catholics, and a vocal supporter, at one time or another, of Communist Russia under Khrushchev, Communist China under Mao, and Communist Cuba under Castro, justly earning the title "the Red Archbishop." And this after having been a pro-Nazi activist in the 1930s!
It defies belief that Câmara has just been declared (on May 3) a "Servant of God" by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, which gave a green light to the official opening of the local process for this blatant heretic's "beatification." There is no way this could have been done without Francis' approval. And what is the basis for this preposterous "beatification" proceeding? Câmara's supposed love and defense of the poor. But as a supporter of communist dictatorships he was actually an enemy of the poor, who are invariably communism's first victims.
No one has expressed the outrage this development warrants more succinctly than the Rorate Caeli blog: "Helder Câmara: a lifetime of working against the Church from the inside. — And they want to beatify him?..." Yes, they do. They really do. And if Camara is "beatified" we can only conclude that under current circumstances the process for beatification, never infallible to begin with, has been fatally compromised and is now utterly the captive of ideologues in the Vatican and the episcopacy, let loose upon the Church by Francis himself.
In a groundbreaking speech given at a pro-life conference in Rome earlier this month, Father Linus Clovis frankly addressed the growing disaster that is "the Francis effect." In that context he noted the saying people often use to respond to a question whose answer should be self-evident: "Is the Pope Catholic?" Today, said Father Clovis, "that isn't funny any more."
No, it isn't. We have clearly entered the deepest depths of what was already the worst crisis in Church history. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
It defies belief that Câmara has just been declared (on May 3) a "Servant of God" by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, which gave a green light to the official opening of the local process for this blatant heretic's "beatification." There is no way this could have been done without Francis' approval.
So what would he eventually become, the patron saint of Marxism?
This is the automated verse that popped up today:
Proverbs 24:30-34 (NIV)
I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins. I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest — and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.
Ahhhhh that fellow was a sucker, he hadn’t figured out how to milk the rest of the world /s
This is quite something.
There is a pretty active Catholic Caucus on FR.
I’m not sure why there is not more discussion on this.
According to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which cited the prosecutor for the city of Terni in central Italy, Paglia is alleged to be one of the instigators of the fraud.
Imagine that! Romero's postulator is caught in another fraud.
Who will Francis beatify next, Che?
Francis of Argentina
>> It is through Fidel Castro that the Holy Spirit sends us the message.
I love my Catholic brothers and sisters; they deserve better than this clown pope and his minions.
I mean Camara. Is Francis one of his names?
It’s like any church that gets careless. God eventually gives them what they ask for.
I’m talking about Bergoglio.
OK, understood. But I mean what the process is targeting Camara to be. This screaming socialist. Based on other “patron saint of” associations, being the patron saint of Marxism sounds like a logical goal for Camara.
In 1998 Archbishop Bergoglio wrote “that the political and social system closest to the social doctrine of the catholic church was socialism like the Cuban whenever the idea of God was added to him.”
The Marxist liberation Pope is making saints with the same scrupulous care as the Nobel Peace Prize winners are chosen by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
After the canonization of radical Marxist archbishop Helder DaCamera it is not farfetched to speculate that Francis would elevate Che Guevara to the altars. His admiration for the cold mass murder monster is such that before visiting the Holy Land Pope Francis said he was going as the Che Guevara for the Palestinian people.
The Magisterium of the Church has condemned unequivocally Socialism as intrinsically evil. Catholic faith is incompatible with Marxism.
For Francis holding firm to Catholic doctrine and practice seems like an act of disloyalty to the pope, yet to acquiesce to his attacks to the Magisterium is to betray the Church.
People think they understand a thing because they have a slogan. The churches relationship with the varieties of liberation theology is complex and nuanced.
Ideologues always see ideology in everything as economists see the world through economics. God has made a promise, I believe Him.
So profound! Is that like oranges are orange as water is wet?
“Your theology (Liberation Theology)helps the transformation of Latin America more than millions of books on Marxism” Fidel Castro to Leonardo Boff and Frei Beto in the presence of the Spanish Bishop in Brazil, Pedro Casáldiga, C.M,i..F., who plays end the phrase in his book Nicaragua, combat and prophecy, Madrid, helped, 1986, p.134
“The Mission of the Jesuits in the third world is to create conflict. We are the only powerful group in the world that makes it.” César Jerez S. J., provincial of Central America 1976-1982, at a meeting of Jesuits in Boston, New England Jesuit News, April, 1973.
“At the same time we Christians are children of a Virgin and a whore (Ivan Illich) and believe that this is the truth.” Ernesto Cardenal, priest and then Minister of Nicaragua, in the biography of J. L. González, Salamanca, “Follow me”, 1978, p.23
“Are the Communists, and not the Jesuits, who are winning the battle of atheism.” Igor Bonchkovski in New Times, n.40, Moscow, 1975
“The national planning of the Society of Jesus in the United States should, following the example of China, become an international planning. Towards the convergence of problems in all areas of the world around a single theme: the construction in different times and forms of a world Communist society.”
Strategic document of a group of Dutch Jesuits - in collaboration with other Jesuit revolutionaries—published for internal debate in the official journal of the society of Jesus in the United States, National Jesuit News, April 1972.
“Socialist societies are very ethical, clean, physically and morally. If it weren’t for his materialist doctrine it could be argued that they carried out the ethical teaching of the social doctrine of the Church.” Leonardo Boff on his return from a trip to Moscow, cfr.ABC, 16-VII-87, p.45
“Marxism provides a scientific understanding of the mechanisms of oppression in the world, at local and national levels; It offers the vision of a new world which must be built as a socialist society, the first step to a classless society, where genuine brotherhood can be hopefully possible, and by which deserves sacrifice everything.” Declaration of the theological Association of India in the magazine Vidyajyoti, of the Theological Faculty of the Jesuits in Delhi, April, 1986.
Although the Peruvian Father Gustavo Gutierrez is recognized as the putative father of liberation theology, in Peru most of the Jesuit bishops remained faithful to the Doctrine of the Church and repudiated and fought against the Marxist liberation movement.
How about Evita?
“Cardinal O’Malley calls on Congress to support food stamps”
“...O’Malley said Tuesday’s service reminded him of a similar event he hosted at Catholic University four decades ago, when he was serving as executive director of the Washington archdiocese’s office of social ministry. To celebrate Human Rights Day, marked for recognition by the United Nations each Dec. 10, O’Malley said he had invited Dom Hélder Câmara to speak...”
http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/cardinal-omalley-calls-congress-support-food-stamps
“35 years ago in U.S. Catholic: Dom Helder Camara: technician of Christian nuclear power”
“...Somewhat surprisingly, we learn that Dom Helder’s father, grandfather, and uncles were freemasons...”
No more like a fool with a hammer always sees nails.
Two declarations sum up liberation theology. The first, by Dom Helder’s co-national, Leonardo Boff: “What we are proposing is Marxism and historical materialism in theology.” (9) The second, by the Peruvian, Gustavo Gutiérrez, founding father of the current: “What we mean here regarding liberation theology is the involvement of the revolutionary political process”. (10) Gutiérrez also explains the sense of this involvement: “Only by going beyond a society divided into classes. (…) Only eliminating private property of the wealth created by human work, will we be able to lay down the bases for a more just society. It is for this that the efforts to project a new society in Latin America are tending more and more towards socialism”. (11)
Who is Helder D’Camara?
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/04/helder-camara-lifetime-of-working.html
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