The Religious Left, by Joseph Enders

A growing trend in religious circles is the rise of the so-called religious left. They adhere to radical social doctrines of Liberation Theology, black theology and feminist theology — all three of which reject crucial parts of Catholic Church teaching.

This rise can be attributed to the Marxist radicalization of academia, which came to America in the form of the Frankfurt School, a group of Jewish Marxist intellectuals who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The group landed at Columbia University in New York and taught what they called “critical theory” — a social doctrine geared towards revising patriotic views and replacing them with revolutionary ones.

In the 1980s, Historian Howard Zinn wrote his book A People’s History of the United States. It applied critical theory to American history and argued that America could be deduced to a class, gender and racial struggle. It also popularized the belief that America is a racist country founded on genocide and white supremacy. …