The Vatican is losing the world's largest Catholic country, and Marxist-sexualist liberation theology is no more successful than Marxist-political liberation theology, writes CatholicHerald.co.uk (December 12)
• At the current rate, Catholics will make up less than 50% of all Brazilians by July 2023.
• Nearly one in five Latin Americans now describe themselves as Protestant Pentecostals.
• Until the failed Vatican II, at least 90% of Latin America was Catholic.
• One reason for this fiasco is "liberation theology", which put politics above religion.
• Most Catholics left the secularised Council Church because they were looking for religion, not for politics.
• The Vatican II Church is currently repeating the mistake of Marxist-political liberation theology with Marxist-sexualist liberation theology.
The 'processed spiritual food' the Vatican is currently serving up eventually makes people eager to seek other menus, even when those venues have crumbs of spiritual nourishment; it is better than nothing. Personally, I cannot understand any Christian faith which is not sacramentally based, but the soul craves meaning, not ideological pap and the malnourished become desperate.
Our family (My Mom's) has been Catholic since the late 1500's in Japan. Several early family members were martyred under the Tokugawa Shogunate persecution of Catholics in the 1600's. Both my Mom and Dad's family still in Japan are all Catholic, but most don't go to Mass....especially with Francis as Pope. Some of my relatives in L.A. started going to the Greek Orthodox Church there, instead of the local liberal Catholic parish. I personally don't go, unless its to the Roman Rite Latin Mass. But if ever I was faced with a choice between being Buddhist like our ancestors over 575+ years ago, or being Pentecostalist Protestant like this picture shows, I'd pick Buddist in a heartbeat. I've seen a fundamentalist Pentecostalist "service" with their screaming and jumping around and loud obnoxious preaching and music. They're nuts. Vatican II, the Novus Ordo, radical liberal priests and Bishops, and now a Pope are the reasons why the Catholic Faith is declining in Latin America. Before then, the people were proud of their Catholic Mass and traditions, and Protestants were seen as of the devil. Even in Japan where my family originally is from, Catholics were never many....maybe 1.2 million before Vatican II. Now, it's more like 700,000. In general, Japan has become a very secularized society where religious observance except at festivals time and funerals is not very high. But I'll bet if Vatican II had never infested the Church, the Catholic Church would still be pretty strong in Japan.....and in all Latin America (and even Europe for that matter).