ETL’s post 21 with the initial paragraphs about “Liberation Theology” that was being spread among Catholic seminaries and priests in South America during the 1950’s and 60’s is a source if not the source of the “problem” with Pope Francis. The communist underlying of Liberation Theology is what all of the Popes have been fighting against since the Russian Revolution. And that Saint John-Paul II and President Reagan cooperated together to defeat the Soviet Union.
It is the borrowing of clergy that follow secular humanism more than our common Christian teachings, that have wrecked the Protestant denominations and now is trying to wreck the Catholic Church.
I remember it being discussed by some of the priests when I was attending St Joseph’s College (Indiana) back in the late 1960’s. The Society of the Precious Blood, C.PP.S., had priests and sisters in South America at the time (mainly Columbia, Peru, Bolivia & Chile) and some of them who came back talked about the Mary Knoll fathers adopting Liberation Theology as part of their interpretation/corruption of Catholicism.
It’s evident to many that this faction has taken over the Roman Catholic Church, but some are very resistant to the notion that their salvation is in peril by remaining in such a corrupted organization, relying upon it for Christian guidance. This is not a recent thing, however. The corruption goes back at least five centuries if not a thousand years to when Rome went into schism with the Orthodox.
Thanks for the ping.