Will Pope Leo XIV return the Catholic Church to traditional morality, or will he continue down the path laid by Francis, a pope who embraced liberation theology? The issue is existential for Western Civilization as a whole—and it appears that on the issue of Israel’s war with radical Islamists, the new Pope is following Francis.
Liberation theology is the single most destructive Soviet op ever hatched, for it overlays Marxism on Christianity. The two are incompatible, with Marxism morphing and misshaping Christianity.
Jon Pacepa wrote a decade ago:
Pope John Paul II, who knew the Communist playbook well, was not taken in by the Soviets’ liberation theology. In 1983, his friend and trusted colleague Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), who at that time was head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, discarded as Marxist the liberation-theology idea that class struggle is fundamental to history. The cardinal called liberation theology a “singular heresy” and blasted it as a “fundamental threat” to the Church.
Of course, it was and remains a threat — one deliberately designed to undermine the Church and destabilize the West by subordinating religion to an atheist political ideology for its geopolitical gain.
Liberation theology creates a ludicrous moral high ground, elevating “love” over Biblical morality. It embraces immorality without requiring repentance and redemption. It ignores those parts of the Bible that will not tolerate sin, such as John 8, where Jesus, after saving an adulteress from stoning, commands her to “go, and sin no more.”
Likewise ignored is Romans 13:1-7, which says civil government “is ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God…”
The liberation theologians’ call to ignore American laws (e.g., to embrace illegal aliens and demand they not be deported) makes an utter mockery of Romans 13:1-7.
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