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Pope Benedict Warns Against Marxist Liberation Theology

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Zach
Monday, December 7, AD 2009 6:09pm

Leftist Catholics rightly identify Christ as the savior of human beings, body and soul alike. What they fail to understand is the consequences of Original Sin for the body, and the limitations on human life imposed by sin and finitude. They wrongly think that if everyone on Earth was a Saint, there would be no more suffering. Leftist Catholics think that there are no limits to human progress, which is to say they are very modern.

Eric Brown
Monday, December 7, AD 2009 7:28pm

Such words for the “Catholic Left.” Then what is wrong with the “Catholic Right,” I wonder? Or does the “Right” comprise of the Catholics who “get it?”

Joe Hargrave
Monday, December 7, AD 2009 7:41pm

Selective interpretation of the social teaching of the Church… which ultimately stems from liberalism as Leo XIII and Pius XI understood it.

Tito Edwards
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 8:06am

Eric,

Yes.

😉

Eric Brown
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 8:13am

Tito,

No. 🙂

Tom
Tom
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 8:30am

I think there’s a pretty strong throne and altar doctrine on the Catholic Right today, at least in the U.S., where the throne takes the form of military power.

A case could also be made for a “‘Shut up, your Excellencies,’ he explained” doctrine, which denigrates the role of the bishops, individually and especially collectively, in developing social policies.

Jeff M.
Jeff M.
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 9:18am

I read the Pope’s document carefully.

Now I’m perplexed:

1. Exactly what is objectionable in what he said?

2. Has the Pope not condemned, in this very document, the arms buildup and the disgrace of military solutions? He only appears as a right winger if you’re looking from the vantage point of an extreme left wing ideologue.

Maybe a few here ought to put down their Che Guevara coffee mugs read it again. The Holy Father is spot on.

It is simply a fact of history that collectivist movements have enslaved the very people they promised to liberate.

I am frankly a little more than concerned at the prideful inability of many leftists to acknowledge this fact of history, nay, the desire to whitewash this disgrace from history.

Eric Brown
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 11:24am

Who here is attacking the Pope?

Tito Edwards
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 11:45am

MI,

They participated and got deeply involved with Marxist governments. Dissidents such as Jesuit “Father” Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua who was involved with the Communist government then.

Tito Edwards
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 4:33pm

MI,

Oops!

Wrong thread!

😛

Todd
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 7:00pm

I’m always amused when people, especially conservatives who decry the tactic in others, appoint themselves the experts of All Things Liberal.

I don’t think that Acts 4:32 is a bad things for which to strive. Certainly better than cuddling up to Pinochet or Cheney.

Tito Edwards
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 7:02pm

I’d rather cuddle up to Cheney than Karl Marx or Joseph Stalin any day of the week.

Tito Edwards
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 7:25pm

Michael I.,

I love you man!

Tito Edwards
Tuesday, December 8, AD 2009 7:27pm

Michael I.,

Donald will delete it at his leisure.

For the time being I’m just amusing myself by reading your comments, thanks!

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