Cardinal Gerhard Mueller And Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez

[cappie]

Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, stands with his friend Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, OP, the founding father of Liberation Theology, at an event at the Vatican for Cardinal Mueller's new book "Poor for the Poor: The Mission of the Church," which includes writings by Father Gutierrez on Liberation Theology and features a foreword by Pope Francis.

 

[Nihil Obstat]

:(

[Guest]

Somebody translate...is this good or bad ?

[franciscanheart]

Why the long face?

[mortify ii]

You mean the hierarchs are doing away with past teaching? You don't say!

 

 

[PhuturePriest]

I sincerely hope Pope Francis speaks out against this. I know his focus is on Cathoc living, but he can't have the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith show support for Liberation Theology.

[Lilllabettt]

there are rumors that it will be rehabilitated. stranger things have happened.

[cappie]

I sincerely hope Pope Francis speaks out against this. I know his focus is on Cathoc living, but he can't have the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith show support for Liberation Theology.

 

Cardinal Mueller's new book "Poor for the Poor: The Mission of the Church," which includes writings by Father Gutierrez on Liberation Theology and features a foreword by Pope Francis.

Edited February 26, 2014 by cappie

[cappie]

there are rumors that it will be rehabilitated. stranger things have happened.

People silenced for a time by the church include Karl Rahner,and  Padre Pio.

 

John Courtney Murray and the Dominican Yves Congar, were "silenced" by Vatican officials and their own religious orders. Fr. Murray was asked by the archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman, to accompany him as an official peritus, or expert, at the Second Vatican Council. Toward the end of the council, John Courtney Murray was invited to celebrate Mass with Pope Paul VI, as a public sign of his official "rehabilitation." Murray died a few years later, in 1967.

 

Yves Congar's eventual rehabilitation was even more dramatic than John Courtney Murray's: in 1994, he was named a cardinal by Pope John Paul II.

 

There is a long list of saints and holy persons who have felt duty-bound to speak out about matters concerning the good of their church, even at risk to themselves. Their consciences impelled this. During a time of crisis in the church in the fourteenth century, St. Catherine of Siena, the renowned mystic, wrote to a group of cardinals in Rome saying, "You are flowers that shed no perfume, but a stench that makes the whole world reek." When asked how she could possibly know so much about Rome from her faraway post, she replied that the stench reached all the way to Siena. In 1374, in a letter to Pope Gregory IX, exiled in France, she instructed him to return to Rome. "Be a man! Father, arise!" she wrote. "I am telling you!" :crusader:

Edited February 26, 2014 by cappie

[mortify ii]

Cappie, yes, and we see how the reinstatement of those individuals and having them participate in Vatican II benefited the Church.

One day the future generations will write about our era, and I don't think it will be positive.

[PhuturePriest]

Cardinal Mueller's new book "Poor for the Poor: The Mission of the Church," which includes writings by Father Gutierrez on Liberation Theology and features a foreword by Pope Francis.

 

Oh dear... I didn't see that fine detail the first time.

[NotreDame]

Cappie, yes, and we see how the reinstatement of those individuals and having them participate in Vatican II benefited the Church.

One day the future generations will write about our era, and I don't think it will be positive.

 

Are you kidding?  VII has created so many new people to evangelize!  That has to be a resounding success, right?  And it's created a bunch of space in convents, monasteries, and seminaries that we can now try to fill up!  Really, Mortify, you are being a bit of a half-glass empty kinda fella lately ;)
 

[blazeingstar]

From what I see Pope Francis wrote a froward to a book which contains 2 chapters from someone with errant ideas.  It does not appear as if these two chapters contain any problematic material.

 

I see this as a step forward.  We are not condemning all the author's work.  He has some pretty good points.  Even Benedict praised many parts of Guitearrez's work.  All he did was condemn a small part. 

 

I HATE this dichotomy that's brought between Benedict and Francis.  Benedict DID criticize part of the theology, and there is evidence that Francis isn't happy with that part either.  Benedict had strong, real praise for MOST of work in "Liberation Theology" but nooo, no one EVER focus' on that.

 

Oh and to add one bit Francis actively worked against the problematic parts as bishop...something which cannot be said about Benedict.

Edited February 26, 2014 by blazeingstar