Liberation Theology Into The Vatican

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000

RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

Peter Berger ruminates upon Two German Cardinals and a Peruvian Dominican in the Vatican. The matter is hardly trivial.

Update 1: 11MAY15: Vatican invites Gutierrez. Steven Hayward remarks.

Update 2: Archbishop Oscar Romero was NOT a so-called Liberation Theologian.

Update 3: The Pope, Liberation Theology, Palestine and Castro… by Lionel Chetwynd. See also.

Update 4: Vatican Speaker Thinks There Are 6 Billion Too Many Humans

Update 5: Sabeel: Liberation Theology, Anglican Edition, spouts in Gaza and the West Bank. Two thoughts: (1) “I seen me an Arab, I seen me a Gaza and I seen me a West Bank, but I ain’t never seen me no Palestinian nor no Palestine.” And (2) “I ain’t never seen me no liberation theology that be Christian.”

Update 6: A statement regarding equating Christianity with Communism:

Several New Testament parables are used, since decades, to equate Christianity with Communism. Virtually the entire “mainline denomination” leadership, to include now Roman Catholics, concurs at least in principle with that equation. Thus the pews empty out, which, remarkably, convinces that leadership to embrace leftist manners and language more tightly: cut loose by God, let’s be saved by politics.

Christianity brightly distinguishes the realm of civil authority and law from the realm of religious authority, which transcends civil authority and law and has no law of its own. Each realm has its utility, powers and necessity (“Give unto Caesar….”) and neither has authority to control or dominate the other.

The relationship between religion and science is the same. They are about different matters entirely, without intersection, confirmation or conflict. Like civil authority and religious authority, however, they are parallel, indomitable vectors of human experience and history.

Update 7: Back To The Future: Liberation Theology Rehabilitated

Update 8: What Really Happened At Synod 2015?

Update 9: De Mattei – The Post-Synod Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia: First Reflections On A Catastrophic Document

Update 10: Pope Francis Says Liberation Theology Was Good For Latin America

Update 11: Pope Francis Tears At History’s Wall Against Islam

Update 12: Back to the Future: Liberation Theology Rehabilitated

Update 13: The Communist Cardinals of Pope Francis

Update 14: ‘Doctrinal Anarchy’ as Bishops’ Conflicting Positions on Amoris Laetitia Show

Update 15: De Mattei: The Plan Of “Reinterpretation” For Humanæ Vitæ

Update 16: Clergy and Lay Scholars Issue Filial Correction of Pope Francis

Update 17: Vatican Teams With WCC To Push Immigration, Condemn ‘Populist Nationalism’

Update 18: Robert Spencer: Muslim-Catholic document on world peace “full of outrageously false and misleading statements”