The Liberation Theology Podcast
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A close look at the basic concepts of Latin American liberation theology. Hosted by David Inczauskis, Jesuit priest -- [email protected]
Chicago, IL
Joined January 2021
"The affluent society has now demonstrated that it is a society at war; if its citizens have not noticed it, its victims certainly have." --Herbert Marcuse
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The Venezuelan people should run Venezuela, not the United States. The Venezuelan people should have sovereignty over Venezuelan resources, not the United States.
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May Catholics stand against US imperialism and against fossil fuel exploitation. May Catholics stand for the liberation of the oppressed and for integral ecology.
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Pope Francis in "Fratelli Tutti" denounces unjust military operations that masquerade as national security.
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God did not choose to inaugurate our salvation by way of incarnation in the world in history only for us to have hope in a purely spiritual life outside of the world outside of history.
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Let us contemplate the resurrection not as an escape from creation and history but as the first fruits of a new creation and the in-breaking of a new history. Material history matters to the Christian. The incarnation and the resurrection affirm and transform it.
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It is not adequate to think that God looks upon the suffering of human beings in history and says, "I am leaving the resolution of their problems to the end of time." This way of thinking is a denial of the incarnation, of the hypostatic union.
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From the Child of Bethlehem, we implore peace and consolation for the victims of all current wars in the world, especially those that are forgotten, and for those who suffer due to injustice, political instability, religious persecution and terrorism. #Christmas
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In becoming man, Jesus took upon himself our fragility, identifying with each one of us: with those who have nothing left and have lost everything, with those who are prey to hunger and poverty, with those who are fleeing their homeland to seek a future elsewhere, with those who
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99 extrajudicial executions, 99 murders
On Dec. 17, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was transiting along a known
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Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, pray for us, that the reign of your son Jesus would come, a reign in which the wretched of the earth rise up, the dispossessed take back their land, and the warring elite put down their financial & military weapons to help build a truly just peace!
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"The basic tenet of liberation theology is that one can only reflect under the light of the gospel on the liberation that Christ brought when one is involved in the political struggle for the liberation of the oppressed of this world." -- Padre J. Guadalupe Carney
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"All prophets should speak in this manner, 'Thus saith the Lord,' and not, 'Thus said the Lord,' as if it had occurred in the past rather than in the present... God is within the prophet, and one should not think of God as if God were a thousand miles away." --Thomas Münzer
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"As Thomas Jefferson removed supernatural phenomena from the Bible to fit his deist religion, the rich remove denunciations of wealth from the Bible to fit their greed." --Liberation Theology Podcast, Ep. 21, "Evangelization," available now
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"[The First World has] betrayed the word of Christ. They have turned His cross into a club, and after putting on His robe they have torn our bodies and souls to shreds. They [made] His message...a Western one, whereas we saw it as...universal liberation." --Thomas Sankara, 1984
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