Re: The view from the Pope - update

["M. Adams" <galture@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 --- "Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
>

> The condtion of the Church is in worse shape than
> that of humanity.  Perhaps the
> Holy Father should follow the example of Cardinal
> Law and resign to let the
> Church elect a liberation theology pope.  The
> usefulness of an anti-communist
> pope has outlived events.  Its time for the Church
> to stand again on the side of
> justice, and help the poor inherite the earth.

Little chance, if El Salvador can be used as a
barometer:

The hand of Opus Dei in El Salvador
MARIANNE JOHNSON
Oscar Romero, the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador,
is revered in Latin America as a saint because of his
support for the voiceless and the poor. But the civil
war is over and times have changed. A lay volunteer
and researcher in El Salvador assesses the policy of
Romero?s successor
 <snip>
Yet the hostility to liberation theology on the part
of the church hierarchy in the last six years has been
out of all proportion to these limitations. Under
Archbishop Sáenz Lacalle, an Opus Dei man, the
strategy has not been to reform liberation theology,
but to undo and remove all traces of it.

There are frequent denunciations of it by church
leaders in the national press; bishops have withdrawn
funding and support from key programmes; priests have
been strategically shifted, and nuns expelled. Drastic
changes have been made to the seminary curriculum,
with books containing liberationist teachings banned,
conservative rectors put in charge, and seminarians
pulled in from pastoral outposts in poor areas. For
the visitor, who inevitably has in mind Archbishop
Romero?s brave pronouncements from the pulpit in the
Metropolitan Cathedral, it is the sermons that most
register the change. When you hear them, it is hard to
realise you are in El Salvador at all.


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