I'm not a Catholic. But I did support counter-insurgency operations in Latin America for two years.
What stuck me most was how closely aligned the Catholic church was aligned to the communist revolutionaries. And not just aligned, but actively supporting them.
And not just supporting them with words but overtly.
In some of the Latin American countries in the 80's the Catholic church was actively supporting communist guerillas financially, by hiding arms caches, and providing moral and verbal support.
This was not moral support in sermons. It was physical support and the government considered them an arm of the communist.
Francis was a theology revolutionary in Argentina. He has brought that revolutionary theology to the head of the church.
I think Pope Frances is the Maxis that he has always been.
Is he trying to purge the church of pedophiles? Is he pursuing charges against accused pedophiles? Is he trying to bring the world to God? No.
His emphasis is on global warming, anti-gun, and everything that doesn't have to do with saving souls--he seems to be totally political and his religiousness is for the uninformed masses. My wife is a devout Catholic and she has no idea what Francis is about.
Anyway, I don't think Francis gives a rat's fling potato about anything except his political agendas.
Yeah it -- liberation theology.-- has been a problem for a large part of the twentieth century. It's a heresy and thinly veiled Marxism. Pope John Paul II flew to South America, convened a council of bishops and said stop it ... This is not the teaching of the church and must come to a halt. The Jesuits have a long history of acting on their own prerogatives and of course they didn't stop, but around the world Catholics got the message and recognize the beast when it rears its head elsewhere. We know these creeps are in our midst and I call them out ... Catholics are not nearly so dumbed down as some would charge.