Key cardinal facing 7 years in jail for corruption: Last Week in the Church with John Allen Jr. 

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Oh, I love that quote. Chesterton was wrong -- but it's still beautiful.

Christians remained the largest religious group in the world in 2015, making up nearly a third (31%) of Earth's 7.3 billion people. Some think of Christianity as the sect which has best known how to survive for a long time.

I bet he won't send the lads down to Buenos Aires.

@@Jimboken1 He himself has been conspicuously absent from Argentina...

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Aliens? I would have got an invite by now. That's why I don't believe...in ..................much.....

Catholic Social Teaching - Yes. Liberation Theology which is just political Marxist ideology - No. Social Justice Warrior - No. Soldier of Christ - Yes. Pope JohnPaul l: "I think that the Magisterium of the Church will never sufficiently insist in presenting and recommending the solution of the great problems of freedom, justice, peace, development; and Catholic laity will never fight sufficiently to solve these problems. It is wrong, on the other hand, to state that political, economic and social liberation coincides with salvation in Jesus Christ, that the Regnum Dei is identified with the Regnum hominis, that Ubi Lenin ibi Jerusalem." Paul Vl Octogesima Adveniens 80th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, May 1971: "At a third level, Marxism' whether in power or not, is viewed as a socialist ideology based on historical materialism and the denial of everything transcendent. At other times, finally, it presents itself in a more attenuated form, one also more attractive to the modern mind: as a scientific activity, as a rigorous method of examining social and political reality, and as the rational link, tested by history, between theoretical knowledge and the practice of revolutionary transformation. Although this type of analysis gives a privileged position to certain aspects of reality to the detriment of the rest, and interprets them in the light of its ideology, it nevertheless furnishes some people not only with a working tool but also a certitude preliminary to action: the claim to decipher in a scientific manner the mainsprings of the evolution of society. While, through the concrete existing form of Marxism, one can distinguish these various aspects and the questions they pose for the reflection and activity of Christians, it would be illusory and dangerous to reach a point of forgetting the intimate link which radically binds them together, to accept the elements of Marxist analysis without recognizing their relationships with ideology, and to enter into the practice of class struggle and its Marxist interpretations, while failing to note the kind of totalitarian and violent society to which this process leads." Cardinal Ratzinger CDF 1984: "The present Instruction has a much more limited and precise purpose: to draw the attention of pastors, theologians, and all the faithful to the deviations, and risks of deviation, damaging to the faith and to Christian living, that are brought about by certain forms of liberation theology which use, in an insufficiently critical manner, concepts borrowed from various currents of Marxist thought........ "....it is proper to emphasise those essential aspects which the "theologies of liberation" especially tend to misunderstand or to eliminate, namely: God and true man; the sovereignty of grace; and the true nature of the means of salvation, especially of the Church and the sacraments. One should also keep in mind the true meaning of ethics in which the distinction between good and evil is not relativized, the real meaning of sin, the necessity for conversion, and the universality of the law of fraternal love. One needs to be on guard against the politicisation of existence which, misunderstanding the entire meaning of the Kingdom of God and the transcendence of the person, begins to sacralise politics and betray the religion of the people in favour of the projects of the revolution." Cardinal Muller former CDF head, Mar 2023: "The Church does not reject the goal of liberation. For the “liberty and glory of the children of God” (Rom. 8:21) is the goal and reason for God’s revelation as the truth and life of every human being, and every good theology explicates this theme. The elevation of man to God’s sonship in Christ and to God’s friendship in the Holy Spirit, including liberation from original sin, personal sins, and all the evils of body and soul, is the motive of God’s saving action in the creation, redemption, and perfection of man, whom he created in his image and likeness. Liberation theology at its best understands this. Its temptation, however, is to understand liberation in ­material terms, as the achievement of perfect economic and social conditions. It is unfortunate that many in the liberation theology movement mistook Christian salvation for Marxist self-­redemption."

They were working for Marxism, not justice.

So good catholics pay for evil catholics. Those evil ones who committed the crimes were overwhelmingly homosexual priests and a hierarchy that protected them. Looks like Pope Francis has done the same. Maybe clean house should be the goal for good catholics.

Why

The world youth were done to bring the youth people to Christ, the world of Lisbon is only gathering of young people to party and gather in Lisbon to support each other in the journey of life, not to bring Christ to the youth, according to what bishop Americo ( future cardinal) who said “We don’t want to convert the young people to Christ or to the Catholic Church or anything like that at all,” said Bishop Américo Aguiar, the head of World Youth Day (WYD) Lisbon 2023 who will be created a cardinal by Pope Francis in September.” So why go ?

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The numbers are way down this time. Is anyone surprised?

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