Posted on 12/26/2022 11:06:13 AM PST by ebb tide
The Vatican is losing the world's largest Catholic country, and Marxist-sexualist liberation theology is no more successful than Marxist-political liberation theology, writes CatholicHerald.co.uk (December 12)
• At the current rate, Catholics will make up less than 50% of all Brazilians by July 2023.
• Nearly one in five Latin Americans now describe themselves as Protestant Pentecostals.
• Until the failed Vatican II, at least 90% of Latin America was Catholic.
• One reason for this fiasco is "liberation theology", which put politics above religion.
• Most Catholics left the secularised Council Church because they were looking for religion, not for politics.
• The Vatican II Church is currently repeating the mistake of Marxist-political liberation theology with Marxist-sexualist liberation theology.
Ping
To the degree that any of these Brazilians come to saving faith in Christ, I’m all for it.
It will also allow Islam to make inroads.
Nice article, but what an amateurish cartoon, making its point with such heavy-handedness.
Shouldn’t the Vatican own up to this failure and engage in some retrospection?
As a Protestant Pentecostal, I say “Welcome” to my new brothers and sisters in Christ.
**but what an amateurish cartoon,**
The woman is obviously portrayed wearing yoga pants, or something similar. As my wife (who before turning God when he called her out of darkness) has said, Adam and Eve sinned, and saw that they were naked. Today’s self awareness seems to be rare, as modesty is all but gone in both secular society and religious communities.
(We realize the mooslimbs take modesty of the woman to forced extremes.)
Gosh, I don’t tell the Vatican what to do.
They didn’t listen to Blessed Saint Martin Luther, so I doubt they will listen to anyone now.
I just rejoice when people come to saving faith in Christ.
God works in mysterious ways.
Stop linking that evil Frank to Protestants! Catholicker all the way!
Were they not already your brothers and sisters as Catholics?
Isn’t Vatican II grand:
Sorry. That's impossible.
This whole “Vatican II has led to the decline of the Roman Catholic Church” is a good example of the post hoc fallacy.
And it’s quite a smear to blame it on Protestantism and to say the Vatican II Church is “Protestant.”
Just looking at the situation, in very general and broadbrush terms, for a pre-Modern society which would be governed by Christianity, you can see how the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, with all of their faults, would be used by God. Generally speaking, whole societies adopted a Christian culture, and the Catholic Church more or less enforced godly Christian living, and having those moral codes enforced by the state forced many people to be virtuous and to recognize and embrace the virtues of Christianity. Being acquainted today with many low-income people, and seeing how the godless culture of today has ravaged the lower class in so many respects, I can appreciate that. They essentially need pretty strong cultural and moral guardians and leaders, and they largely embrace whatever is offered to them culturally. The middle class pretty much does too, but not to the same extent.
And it was in part the slow development of modern society and the more learned middle classes that brought about the Protestant Reformation and the loss of a lot of the social power of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church proudly says it “helped” bring about those changes, including by increasing the amount of education available. Perhaps from a surplus of funds and priests who took an interest in worldly knowledge, probably some for good and some for ill.
Again, speaking very generally, as society has “modernized” technologically and more people have become literate and educated, it’s brought with it a whole host of changes. While Catholics most dedicated to their church tend to think that the Protestant Reformation weakened Christianity, they don’t see how, under the modernizing that has been part of God’s plan, more people have come to the Lord intimately through His Word. And that has not led to every person being their own Pope or “30,000 Protestant churches” (which a Catholic writer admitted is a bad statistic from a hostile secular source). The hyper individualism of the churches comes mostly from the modern age, which, again the Catholic Church helped bring in. Between more education (first literacy, then libraries and mass education, then mass media and now the computer age) plus all sorts of “modern” technology which is making the world more and more like Babylon and bringing people worldwide together on a Tower of Babel.
And all in all, in the wealthier nations, it has been ordinary Protestants with intimate knowledge of God’s Word who have been most equipped to stand against and expose how modern society is heightening man’s rebellion against God and trying to establish a godless earth, if that were possible. And that doesn’t mean that Protestants and Protestant churches haven’t been and still aren’t very imperfect in many ways. Just that God has been able to use them and work through them because His Word has been so established there.
Not if they were the same type of catholic as the pope.
Who say's "modernizing" was part of God's plan better than VC II and the six Protestant "observers" at that travesty?
On what authority does this opinion rest?
Why would we listen to someone repeatedly screaming “IT BURNS! IT BURNS!”?
The fakir with fake stigma made that claim… so totally false.
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