{"id":1411595,"date":"2022-03-30T22:29:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411595"},"modified":"2022-03-30T22:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:29:58","slug":"liberation-theologian-pope-francis-under-attack-from-white-supremacists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberation-theologian-pope-francis-under-attack-from-white-supremacists\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberation Theologian: Pope Francis Under Attack from \u2018White Supremacists\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Left-wing Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff said Wednesday that for the past nine years Pope Francis \u201chas been receiving furious attacks from traditionalist Christians and white supremacists, almost all from the North of the world, the U.S. and Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boff, known for his impassioned indigenism and disdain for European Christianity, also <a href=\"https:\/\/hoydia.com.ar\/opinion\/ataques-despiadados-contra-el-papa-francisco\/\">claimed<\/a> that an unidentified shadowy group of financiers invested millions of dollars to \u201cdepose\u201d Francis from the papacy, \u201cas if the church were a company and the pope was its CEO.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Pope Francis has been \u201cpersecuted,\u201d Boff insists, for geopolitical reasons, disputes over power, divergent visions of the church, and disagreement over the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Until the middle of the last century, \u201cthe Catholic Church was from the first world,\u201d he declares. \u201cNow it is a church of the third and fourth world,\u201d yet \u201cEuropean conservatives nurture a sovereign disdain for the South, for Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe church-great-institution was an ally of colonization, an accomplice of indigenous genocide and a participant in slavery,\u201d Boff states, returning to a favorite theme of his.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Boff famously squared off with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1992, <a href=\"https:\/\/archivio.unita.news\/assets\/main\/1991\/06\/11\/page_021.pdf\">voicing<\/a> his wish that the 500th anniversary of Columbus\u2019s discovery of America might be \u201cthe year that represents the resumption of their [indigenous] religions, which were just and worthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Ratzinger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Truth-Tolerance-Christian-Belief-Religions-dp-158617035X\/dp\/158617035X\/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&#038;me=&#038;qid=\">recalled<\/a> that on the occasion of the most recent rebuilding of the main Aztec temple in 1487, a minimum of 20,000 people bled to death over four days as human sacrifices to the sun god, since the sun was believed to live on the blood of human hearts.<\/p>\n<p>It will be \u201cdifficult for us to encourage the restoration of this religion,\u201d Ratzinger added.<\/p>\n<p>In Latin America, Boff argues in Wednesday\u2019s essay, the church is predominantly made up of basic ecclesial communities, where the faithful live as equals, where prelates and priests live in the midst of the people, \u201cnever with their backs turned to the people as ecclesiastical authorities, but as shepherds at their side, with \u2018the smell of the sheep.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPopes and doctrinal authorities of the Vatican tried to curtail and even condemn such a way of being a church, not infrequently with the argument that they are not a church because they do not see in them the hierarchical character and the Roman style,\u201d Boff continues. \u201cThat threat lasted for many years until, finally, the figure of Pope Francis burst in.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to Boff, Francis emerged from this new ecclesial culture, expressed by the preferential option for the poor and \u201cby the different aspects of liberation theology that accompany it\u201d and thus\u00a0gave legitimacy to this way of living the Christian faith, \u201cespecially in situations of great oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Francis no longer presents himself as the traditional pontiff, \u201cdressed in pagan symbols, taken from the Roman emperors,\u201d Boff insists.<\/p>\n<p>He refused to live in a pontifical palace, which would have made Saint Francis roll over in his grave, in order to live \u201cin a simple guest house, Santa Marta,\u201d he writes. \u201cThere he gets in line to be served and eats together with everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francis has distanced himself from all pomp, doctrinalism, and canon law, which \u201ccauses outrage among conservatives and reactionaries,\u201d Boff writes.<\/p>\n<p>And so traditionalists reject a pope who comes from afar and who \u201cbrings another style to the center of power of the Vatican, closer to the grotto of Bethlehem than to the palaces of the emperors,\u201d Boff says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps what most bothers Christians anchored in the past is the vision of the church lived by the pope,\u201d he states. \u201cNot a church-castle, closed in on itself, in its values \u200b\u200band doctrines, but a \u2018field hospital\u2019 church always \u2018on the way to the existential peripheries.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" 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