Liberation theology’s founder basks in a belated rehabilitation under Pope Francis

[hrmjustin]

David Gibson

NEW YORK (RNS) It used to be that just saying the words “liberation theology” around Catholics was enough to start a schism-level fight, or at least raise a red flag in Rome.

The theological movement that focused on the poor emerged out of the church’s social justice ferment in the 1960s, but it was always viewed by conservatives as an irredeemably Marxist version of the gospel.

Worse, they said it was a tool of Soviet communists who were using the Roman Catholic Church to foment revolution in Latin America and beyond, and at the very height of the Cold War.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/05/07/liberation-theologys-founder-basks-belated-rehabilitation-pope-francis/

[TexasProgresive]

1. Now that the Church is moving past the Red Menace

and assuming everyone that cares for the poor and downtrodden is a godless commie.

Now if the American people can get on this train-life could be better for so many people.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

3. The previous pope's problems with Liberation Theology were summed up by Dom Helder Camara:

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."

Now, as you say, the current regime seems to have moved past that to a more rational stance.

[okasha]

2. This was way overdue.

Good for Pope Francis.

[rug]

4. And they say Jesuits don't get along with Dominicans.