Bishops: Romero should be canonised - Catholic Herald Online
Thousands of miles from El Salvador, fellow travellers in the British Hierarchy celebrate Masses in his honor and advocate for his canonization despite his controversial political views. Marxist political views which are as they were the day he died, irreconcileable with the Catholic Faith.
We don't see why a man who wanted to confiscate other people's money and spend it on ineffective social programs should enjoy the honor of being named a Saint. Unfortunately for exponents of this avid socialist, there are still a number of people who remember +Romero for what he was, a socialist agitator and a useful tool to Soviet interests.
3 comments:
Dear Tancred,
I would love to read the homily where Romero actually advocated
the confiscation of other people's money so it could be spent on
'ineffective social programs' as you say. Could you provide the link
or reference?
Saint Thomas Aquinas used elements of Aristotle's philosophy in
the Summa Theologica yet Aristotle's work as a whole is not reconcileable with the Catholic faith. Similarly, liberation theologians
have used elements of a Marxist economic analysis in the concept of structural sin but that does not make them social agitators or atheists of the dialectical materialist kind.I heard Gustavo Guttierez in person make this defence in answer to the charge that Liberation Theology
was Marxism in disguise and would eventually have to buy in to the
whole Marxist world view.
Like the USCCB, +Romero supported wealth confiscation programs using the false pretext of "social-justice" and "human rights".
It's not only mendacious, but the Salvadoran land reform which he supported in an interview just before he was eliminated is plain wealth confiscation.
In the flurry of praise that comes from the leftist Catholic press for +Romero like so much dandruff shedding from an octogenerian nun, no one wants to discuss the fact that the Soviet Union and International Communism was a real threat at that time as much as it continues to be a threat today.
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