Ken, Look into Church history and you will see that institutional attachment to feudal forms and medieval thinking is present and straightforward. In fact even the Office of the Pontifex Maximus of Rome maintains its ancient political rights rooted in ancient history and was partially affirmed by Mussolini.
Of course, for most of Church History the Church Hierarchs were on the side of the landlords of the world. That in itself is not the end of the discussion. Pope John XXIII dragged the Catholic Church kicking and screaming into the 19th century. If he had lived longer he may have dragged it into the 20th. But after the death of Pope John a civil war occurred in the Church which left hundreds of thousands of dead, mostly poor people and intellectuals, in Central and South America. Penny Lernoux, before her untimely death in 1989, chronicled this civil war and U.S. involvement in this slaughter of innocents if you are interested in reading about it. Our current Pope was at best wish-washy during this period. At worse he made those priests, nuns, and lay people who committed themselves to the preferential option to serve the poor, more vulnerable by attacking them in print. I believe Pope Francis is doing penance for not speaking out in his time. He has said that he should have been open in his opposition to the Argentine Generals during the Dirty War and Operation Condor. But their is also another political calculation in this stance. The Church Hierarchy’s betrayal of the poor in Central and South America from 1965 to 1992 has led to a great loss of parishioners to evangelical Protestant groups in the subsequent period. Jerry Monaco On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 2:03 PM Ken Hiebert <[email protected]> wrote: > Jerry Monaco said, "The Papacy, the Last Bastion of Anti-Capitalist > Feudal Socialism. And yet our current *Pontifex Maximus *is as much a > rationalist as Gaius Julius Caesar when he occupied the office in the > bygone *Res Publica. *That is saying something given the times. “ > > Whatever attachment the Catholic Church may have to political views from > past centuries, I am inclined to think that they arrive > at their political stance today based on contemporary political > considerations. Their constituency is in the hundreds of millions and > includes many poor people and many in countries dominated by imperialist > powers. > > ken h > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2287): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2287 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77309850/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
