Diligite iustitiam: liberation theology

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Leonardo Boff

“Boff proposes an ecclesial revolution that would lead to the end of the Catholic Church as we have known it for two thousand years and to the emergence of a new Church…basically a human institution that can be changed at will.” https://t.co/LNjcnGUX6F
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) December 18, 2020

Thursday, November 19, 2020

A Special Speaker for a Special Conference

Liberation Theologian Leonardo Boff Is a Keynote Speaker at Vatican’s ‘Economy of Francesco’ Conference | National Catholic Register https://t.co/9AwXj0JFVt @NCRegister
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) November 19, 2020

The controversial former Franciscan priest was disciplined by the Vatican in the 1980s, for disseminating Marxist-oriented ideas that demonstrated ‘a profound misunderstanding of the Catholic faith.’
via @EdwardPentin https://t.co/DHZj2FqlHJ
— National Catholic Register (@NCRegister) November 19, 2020

+Ratzinger disciplined Boff for book he’d written in 1980s, saying it showed a “profound misunderstanding of the Catholic faith.” He accused Ratzinger of “religious terrorism” & in 2013 an “angel of death in the Church” due to his “fundamentalist rigour”
https://t.co/9AwXj0JFVt
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) November 19, 2020

‘Economy of Francis’ event to showcase papal vision for global economic shakeup, by @eliseannallen https://t.co/zEyWRzXPZN
— Crux (@Crux) November 19, 2020

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Paolo Suess on the Amazon Synod

A year on from the #AmazonSynod, liberation theologian Paolo Suess laments that despite “great openness to real reforms,” in the end "traditionalists" prevailed. They “pushed the Pope into a corner,” he says, and accused him of heresies and division
https://t.co/xdyoKAwFFn
— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) October 21, 2020