Ratzinger the child molester?
Chas. Chan wrote:
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI), who was prefect of the
CDF at the time when the Instructions were issued, published his own
personal criticism of the movement in 1985. In this document Ratzinger
claims that in certain forms of Liberation Theology, the meaning of
basic theological terms is changed - e.g. terms such as "hope",
"love", and "salvation" are assigned a Marxist interpretation in terms
of "class struggle".
Ratzinger also argued that Liberation Theology is not originally a
"grass-roots" movement among the poor, but rather, a creation of
Western intellectuals: "an attempt to test, in a concrete scenario,
ideologies that have been invented in the laboratory by European
theologians" and in a certain sense itself a form of "cultural
imperialism". Ratzinger saw this as a reaction to the demise or near-
demise of the "Marxist myth" in the West.
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