John Paul II and the then Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal Ratzinger condemned the nascent liberation theology in Latin America and took strong steps to shut it down. While their motives are understandable, since they feared Marxism in its European version, and could not understand or accept a Christian version of it, this was a major misstep that ended up causing great harm to the Church. Whether they meant to or not, Wojtyla and Ratzinger were making a political choice. In preventing liberation theology, as preached by these martyrs, from reaching its full stage of development, they were keeping the Church aligned with the old power structures of Latin America. They might just as well have sent a telegram. These religious men and women, who in the name of the Gospels, stood with the poor, would not be defended by their Church. They were expendable, and they were murdered.
isabella R on 21 Sep 12I don't intend to imply that there's any kind of exact equivalency between the lives and experiences of gay people today and those who underwent the Holocaust. BUT IT SHOULD BE IMPLIED....IT BEGAN JUST LIKE THIS...JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE YET TO SEE THE END GAME, SHOULD NOT MAKE YOU APOLOGETIC, OR FEEL AS IF YOU ARE BEING POLITICALLY INCORRECT; PEOPLE HESITATE TO TREAD ON THAT SACRED GROUND CALLED "THE HOLOCAUST" AS IF IT WAS UNIQUE, SPECIFIC, UNREPEATABLE....BUT THE PLAIN TRUTH IS THAT IS IS REPEATABLE, THE HOLOCAUST ITSELF WAS A RERUN....DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR HISTORY
