POPE KARL I

Frontpagemag.com ^ | September 16, 2015 | Robert Spencer

[Biggirl]

Did Karl Marx become Pope on March 13, 2013? As the leader of a Church that encompasses the globe, one might expect Pope Francis to be a bit more…spiritual. Instead, he has more than once had recourse to Marxist analysis to explain global events, appearing to see economic deprivation as the cause of all the world’s evils. He did it again in an interview published last Monday, when he opined that the root cause of the refugee crisis engulfing Europe was economic inequality.

[Biggirl]

Good grief, and he is coming to America NEXT WEEK!

[Awgie]

This Pope is quickly become a disgrace to all freedom loving people.

[jurroppi1]

This pope IS a disgrace. I wouldn’t bother with the nicety of “becoming”.

[ETL]

Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190909/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD
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Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190904/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02

[PGalt]

Great post. Thanks, ETL.

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion.

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

[ETL]

Great post yourself. That is precisely what they did in the case of communist-concocted “Liberation Theology”, and then some...

[ETL]

Liberation Theology and the KGB

Jay Richards | February 2, 2010

The presence of Marxism in liberation theology is well-known, at least to seminarians who are critical readers. Practically every seminarian reads Gustavo Gutierrez’s Theology of Liberation at some point, but most laypeople find it hard to believe that there could have been (and continues to be) a widespread attempt to hybridize Christian theology and Marxism.

Marxist regimes obviously benefitted from the spread of liberation theology in the churches. Still, I was not aware of any connections between liberation theology and communist clandestine organizations until now.

A new article by Robert D. Chapman in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence begins to connect some dots. In “The Church in Revolution,” Chapman, “a retired operations officer in the Clandestine Services Division of the Central Intelligence Agency,” argues that the KGB infiltrated the Russian Orthodox Church through Metropolitan Nikodim, the Russian Orthodoxy’s second-ranking prelate. Nikodim was a proponent of liberation theology. Nikodim was active in the otherwise-Protestant World Council of Churches. And the WCC, of course, became an actively left-wing organization during the last half of the 20th century.

Chapman also details the growth of liberation theology in Latin America—and the Vatican’s struggles with it—and the growth of black liberation theology in the United States. Prominent proponents of the latter include James Cone and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The arguments of liberation theologians should be challenged on their merits. The source of an argument, after all, doesn’t establish its truth or falsity. Still, it’s interesting to learn that liberation theology may have been, at least in part, a project of the KGB.

Unfortunately, this isn’t just history. Chapman concludes ominously:

"the Theology of Liberation doctrine is one of the most enduring and powerful to emerge from the KGB’s headquarters. The doctrine asks the poor and downtrodden to revolt and form a Communist government, not in the name of Marx or Lenin, but in continuing the work of Jesus Christ, a revolutionary who opposed economic and social discrimination.

A friend of mine, a head of Catholic social services in my area and formerly a priest, is a liberation theologian. He has made a number of humanitarian trips to Central America and told me, ‘‘liberation theology is alive and well.’’ The same can be said of its sibling in the United States [ie, Black Liberation Theology]."

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2010/02/liberation-theology-and-the-kgb/

[kalee]

Thanks, I recently voiced concern that this Pope had communist leanings and a couple people disagreed with me.

[WKUHilltopper]

You always could count on a Pope being anti-commie. Not anymore. The one they have now is as Red as they come.

[T-Bone Texan]

The people who disagreed with you are ignorant.

A FReeper made up a great term that I use a lot now: “Pope Che”.

Kinda says it all.

[Resettozero]

This Pope is quickly become a disgrace to all freedom loving people.

Catholic bashing has been banned permanently from Free Republic.

[PGalt]

BUMP

[ETL]

Re: This Pope is quickly become a disgrace to all freedom loving people.

Catholic bashing has been banned permanently from Free Republic.

That's not "Catholic bashing". This pope is an infiltrator. He's pushing communist-friendly "Liberation Theology", or something very similar to it. Same basic crap that Obama was schooled in (for 20+ years) by his 'pastor' Jeremiah Wright. It's all bogus.

[Mach9]

Good grief. We got through the Borgias and Avignon, so I don’t think this naive, possibly brain-washed, Spanish/Argentinian is going to thwart two-plus milennia of Catholicism. No conservative Catholic fears or credits papal musings that have nothing to do with faith and morals, troubling as those musings may be.

[Resettozero]

I know what you posted is true. But it IS Catholic bashing.

[NeoCaveman]

Exactly.

This too shall pass.

[ETL]

I know what you posted is true. But it IS Catholic bashing.

No it isn't. It's calling this guy who somehow made it to pope out for what he really is. Would you consider our criticism of Obama "president bashing"?

[Zionist Conspirator]

This Pope is quickly become a disgrace to all freedom loving people.

Catholic bashing has been banned permanently from Free Republic.

We're all getting to see how politically correct "speech codes" got started at the universities.

[cothrige]

No it isn't. It's calling this guy who somehow made it to pope out for what he really is. Would you consider our criticism of Obama "president bashing"?

Actually, given that the pope is the head of the Church, and the president is the head of America (at least in a sense), I think a better analogy would be to suggest criticism of Obama is "America bashing."

[ETL]

You’re right. Must have had a brain fart on that one. :)