SHOCK AS POPE FRANCIS DEFENDS COMMUNIST LIBERATION THEOLOGY, SAYS IT WAS ‘GOOD FOR LATIN AMERICA’
In his lengthy interview last week with the leftist Spanish daily El País, the Pope said that “Liberation Theology was a good thing for Latin America,” but also recognized that it had “deviations” that needed to be corrected.
by Geoffrey Grider
NowTheEndBegins.com
January 28, 2017
IN A CONTROVERSIAL INTERVIEW, POPE FRANCIS HAS PUBLICLY DEFENDED LIBERATION THEOLOGY, CALLING IT A “POSITIVE THING” IN LATIN AMERICA.
In his lengthy interview last week with the leftist Spanish daily El País, the Pope said that “Liberation Theology was a good thing for Latin America,” but also recognized that it had “deviations” that needed to be corrected.
The part of Liberation Theology that “opted for a Marxist analysis of reality was condemned by the Vatican,” Francis said.
“Cardinal Ratzinger issued two instructions when he was Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith,” he continued. “One very clear one about the Marxist analysis of reality, and the second picked up positive aspects.”
“Liberation Theology had positive aspects and also had deviations, especially in the part of the Marxist analysis of reality,” he said. The two Vatican documents cited by the pontiff were Libertatis Nuntius, issued in 1984, and Libertatis Conscientia, released just two years later, in 1986.
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