WHAT IS "LIBERATION THEOLOGY?"

WHAT IS "LIBERATION THEOLOGY?" IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH- HTTP://WWW.CINOPBEGONEBLOGSSPOT.COM - SUND. SEPT. 17/17 Excerpts from George Neumayrs, The Political Pope, Center Street, New York, 2017 "Emeritus Benedict XVI in his role as doctrinal guardian of the Church, Ratzinger repeatedly warned the faithful to reject "liberation theology," a Marxist inspired ideology disguised as concern for the poor that the Soviet Union's KGB spies had smuggled into Latin America's Catholic Church in the 50s. page 1                                                                                
"The movement was born in the KGB and it had a KGB invented name: liberation theology," according to Ion Mihai Pacepa, who served as spymaster for Romania's secret police in the 1950s and 1960s.... According to Pacepa, the KGB took "secret control of the World Council of Churches (WCC), based in Geneva, Switzerland, and used it as a cover for converting liberation theology in to a South American revolutionary tool." Seeking to spread atheistic Marxism among the religious peasants of Latin America, Soviet leaders instructed the KGB to send agents into ecclesiastical circles.                                                

In 1968, Latin America's bishops loudly endorsed liberation theology at a conference in Medellin, Colombia. The KGB served as a puppet master at the event, reported Pacepa.... The official task was to help eliminate poverty in Latin America. Its undeclared goal was to legitimize a KGB-created religious movement dubbed "liberation theology," the secret task of which was to incite Latin America's poor to rebel against the "institutionized violence of poverty' generated by the United States. Against this historical backdrop, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI viewed the spread of liberation theology in Latin America with alarm.

They feared that a Marxist-influenced ideology, which progressive theologians within the Catholic Church were harnessing to their own long-percolating socialist politics, would corrupt the Catholic faith. Pope Benedict XVI called liberation theology a "singular heresy." He argued that it deceives the faithful by concealing "Marxist dialectics" within seemingly harmless advocacy for the lower classes. He drew attention to Marxism's philosophical incompatibility with Christianity and disputed the claims of many church-men that Christianity COULD PURIFY the Marxist elements of socialist thought. How shockingly different statements from the Holy See sound today under Pope Francis.                                                                              

The first Latin American pope in Church history, Jorge Mario Bergoglio has generated headlines not for scolding Marxists but for supporting them, not for rebuking liberation theologians but honoring them. ... In one of his first major interviews, Pope Francis said that liberation theologians have a "high concept of humanity." A few months after he became pope on March 13, 2013, Francis welcomed founding father of liberation theology, the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutierrez, to the Vatican as an honored guest....          

Vatican officials pronounced him an impeccable thinker, responsible for " one of the most important currents in 20th century Catholic theology."... [hogwash] Owing to his open Marxism, Leonardo Boff was silenced by Pope John Paul II Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Boff was also condemned by the Vatican for his threatened hijinks at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, activism that eventually led Boff to leave the priesthood. But these days Boff finds himself back in the Church's good graces. Pope Francis recruited him to serve as an adviser for Laudate Si, his 2015 encyclical endorsing the political agenda of climate change activists." ... page 4 George H. Kubeck, "Liberation Theology" is Pope Francis' Achilles Heel.