Edit: the Reds are invading heaven now, too. The Patron Saint of Wealth Redistribution.
Breaking: A decision regarding Archbishop Oscar Romero's beatification could be announced soon, say two reports. Both originate from Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez, auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, who met with Pope Francis about the canonization process on Friday, and presented with the pope with a letter from all the Salvadoran bishops regarding Monsenor Romero, the martyred archbishop of San Salvador. The first report, from Prensa Latina, is below. The second, from Radio Vaticana's German site, is here:
in German.
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Our revolutionary pope continues to confuse Christianity with Marxism.
After seeing this video, this doesn't surprise me. ☹
There's really no difference between him and Hillary Clinton.
Is this perhaps what our Lord meant in Matt 11:12?
Bishop Romero defended the poor from the Salvadorean Junta that received open support from US governments. His " crime'' was to preach against violence and the bloodshed that the US trained Salvadorean Military committed in the name of ''Democracy and with the Red Scare of the Communists'' Guerilla.
There has been a lot of speculation about the role of Romero. But in fact he never changed the Magisterium or did anything contrary to the Canon of the Church.
One needs to bear in mind that these events took place in the background of the Cold War and all the Military Regimes (Murderers) in Central America received financial aid from the US. Part of the US foreign policy was based on the doctrine of aggression and defence against the RED SCARE (The Soviets). In this era thousands of innocents Catholic civilians and clergy (The Jesuits in El Salvador) were victims of these Military regimes that did not have respect for Human Life.
With this context in mind, I think Bishop Romero was another victim of this genocide and his assassination took place while celebrating mass. Therefore it is wrong to use or to manipulate the labels Christianity and Marxism.
The Jesuits at the Catholic University were professors in Theology and Philosophy and some of them wrote and use the methodology and research tools that Marx and others European intellectuals used in order to understand and explain phenomena in society. At no point there was an intention to change the Magisterium of the Church and the Dogma. But one thing became clear and it was the question the role of the Hierarchy in these countries and the role of the powerful. Meanwhile, the massacres took place the Bishops in all these countries kept silenced, except one, Romero and that is why the powerful Masonic military got rid of him.
Now, one could draw an analogy of this situation with what is going on in Europe. For example, here in the UK, the silence is evident and Masons are applauding this. No a single Bishop has come publicly and defend the Sacrament of Marriage. This is a European trend and it has taken hold in some other countries such as Argentina and Uruguay in the Americas for example.
Where are the European Bishops in all this? Are they scared to end up in jail for their Faith?
In regard to Pope Francis, one cannot compare the Holy Father with Mrs Clinton. Mrs Clinton has done a lot of damage with her Hawkish policies while she was the Secretary of State and much more. The Pope has been the focus of the media. But please lets do not ignore the facts. The media is based on lies, the Prince of Lies, and they keep manipulating and distorting the image of the Pope. Never before in history has a Pope been so scrutinised by the media, and of course they follow him everywhere, even in the Vatican. But who benefits with all this?
Lets pray for the Pope and for more wisdom before we get carried away by the sensationalism of the instant global media.
Our Lady of Fatima pray for us sinners!!!!!!
Soviet Romero? Well, Bishop Romero did his training in Rome. Initially, he belong to the traditional Catholic Hierarchy that were silent. But suddenly, spoke up for the poor Salvadoreans that were tortured and murdered by the Military Junta. This title is unjust and perhaps you could pray and ask GOD if this right.
Receiving one's training in Rome is no guarantee of being poisonous in one's politics or theology for that matter, or even being an agent of Soviet interests.
It walks like a duck. +Romero supported Ellacuria's Leftist activities, as well as the Jesuits support of the FMLN. He also meddled in land redistribution and was a polarizing as well as divisive figure in El Salvador during the war.
No surprise that after land reform was enacted that El Salvador suddenly became a food importer.
There will be no shortage of people who have no idea how destructive he really was, or perhaps they do know, and are just evil.
I think one has to ask the question "Why was he murdered?" From all reports it was because he spoke up for the poor. Can that be denied? If he was murdered for some other reason perhaps we could be told what that reason was. One might not have liked his politics but what did he do that deserved being killed?
Don't confuse the poor with a Soviet agenda. His activism actually harmed the poor in El Salvador, and the fruit of his "martyrdom" was also dubious since the country now has over one million Protestants in it.
Well said Tancred!....they will be coming out of the woodwork to defend this marxist.
I don't think so. That refers to doing violence to ourselves; namely, overcoming sin against our natural inclinations to sin.
You forget Card. Caffarra, who has valiantly defended marriage contra Kasper.
Also, the media is not entirely to blame. See the video I posted above.
You see, under the new rulelessness of the 1983 changes by JP II to the sanctification process, such as it is now, almost anyone could be made a saint - even Marxists - what price Gramsci?
During the Salvadoran civil war, tens of thousands of people were killed. It was fratricidal and it was ugly. As was to be expected, the vitriol and hatred between the two sides was very high. The combatants were a corrupt army defending far-right reactionaries whose cappo the Reagan administration labeled as a terrorist and forbid entry to the United States on those grounds and Marxist guerrillas on the other side. Under those highly polarized conditions, it was quite normal for name-calling and epithets to fly back and forth, of which labeling all opponents and social critics as "Commies" or Marxists, was the most common one. It was under these circumstances that Archbishop Romero, who had become known as a political and ecclesiastic conservative all his life (60 years old when he was named) came to be called "Marxnulfo" (his middle name was Arnulfo because he was born on the Feast Day of St. Arnulph) by his detractors. As I say, it is quite normal that he should have been so accused by the virulent and vituperative forces of the Salvadoran oligarchy of the 1970s. But there is no excuse for Catholics or Christians in 2014 to do so, especially in light of the fact that Romero's orthodoxy has been vouched for by the Congregation For the Doctrine of the Faith (under Card. Ratzinger's charge) and Romero has been upheld as a model of the faith by now three consecutive popes. If someone has some specific evidence or statements by Romero that contradict this official consensus, then THAT would be useful information to pass along to the faithful--much more so than to repeat the slanders and calumnies of Romero's assassins.
Maybe Romero was a Red, because he promoted Socialist ideas and supported figures among the Jesuits who were supporting the FMLN?
So-called Land Reform led to El Salvador being a food importer. What kind of a Catholic demands that land which belongs to one person be taken away from the man who owns it and given to several other people who didn't own it before? A Communist, that's who.
The entire trend of this current and repellent pontificate of pope Francis is now apparantly being predicated on the utterly false premiss that poverty equals sanctity.
All personages who can be identified theologically with the "poverty industry" are being promoted within catholic church circles.
It is an utter travesty of Christs universal teaching id est salvation does not depend on what a person "earns" but on what a person "does".
If you have never read "The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church" by the late Fr. Malachi Martin, SJ, you should. Facts on the ground.
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