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| Liberation Theology is back as Pope Francis holds capitalism to account |
| 2014-01-10 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 To poster #1, you are, simply put, ignorant or else astoundingly stupid. As is the author of the article. Let's look at the actual papal exhortation, and the scholarly the sources cited in that document. In this, Pope Francis never mentioned or referenced any 'liberation theologians' or ''new theologians'. Analysis of the list of over 200 references to sources is revealing. The most frequently cited source was John Paul II, followed by Benedict XVI. They were particularly cited to supported his comments on socio-economic issues. The third most frequently cited sources was Paul VI, who among other things re-affirmed the Church's teaching on sexual matters, including contraception. The most frequently cited theologian was St Thomas Aquinas, who belongs to the 13th Century,. Notably, Thomism is a favored philosophy by orthodox and conservative Catholics (c.f the writings of Chesterson). Apart from a few early Church Fathers, the only other theologians cited are DeLubac and Guardini, both of whom can be regarded as 'conservative' or orthodox. If anyone thinks there is any discontinuity between Francis and his conservative immediate predecessors, he is deluding himself, and to do so publicly is to deliberately mislead the public in a fundamentally dishonest way. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-01-10 22:52 |
| #3 Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Liberation Theology is dead. Socialism and communism is not what this is about. Go look up Subsidiarity. Come back after you learn what that means. And the capitalism he refers to is then Crony Capitalism where the rich use government to amass and protect wealth at the expense of others. He saw it first hand in the kleptocracy in Argentina, and now in the US, with companies making millions off Obamacare while the religious are being discriminated and bullied by an allegedly capitalist government. Go read it, and you may find actual agreement, instead of this breathless moonbattery from the right (and left) about the re-emergence of liberation theology and socialism. Actually READ his stuff in its entirety instead of depending on gutter journalism and calumny like the UK tabloid you link to. This thinly masked hijacking of the Catholic Church by lefties and journalists combined with know-nothing anticatholicisim is disappointing coming from Burg posters who should know better. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-01-10 21:59 |
| #2 Why Nations Fail |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-01-10 20:06 |
| #1 This guy is a socialist, in sheeps clothing. I was down in South America. Not condemning people but immorality and laziness is very common there. And then they go to confession and blame the rich (who actually WORK) for their poverty. |
| Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-01-10 16:25 |