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Pope Francis looks at a merry-go-round during an audience with circus members in Paul VI hall at the Vatican June 16. Also pictured is Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers. Pope Francis looks at a merry-go-round during an audience with circus members in Paul VI hall at the Vatican June 16. Also pictured is Cardinal Antonio Maria Veglio, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers.
By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, April 17, 2023
Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are Columbus and the Crisis of the West and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.
In the heyday of Liberation Theology, the movement’s theorists often argued that it wasn’t enough for the Church to care for those wounded by political and economic injustice – roughly what Pope Francis has called a “field hospital.” Liberation demanded inquiries into why bodies are floating downstream and forays upstream to find, and deal with, causes. Liberation Theologians weren’t very good at this. (Most Church figures aren’t, because their training is not in political philosophy, economics, or security matters.) They often applied what were already clearly simplistic, discredited Marxist categories to situations in Latin America, and elsewhere in the developing world, where Marx’s “scientific” socialism didn’t really fit.Related posts
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