But the understanding of poverty as often inseparable from moral and cultural considerations disintegrated in the late 1960s. Swept up in the decade's tumult and encouraged by the modernizing spirit of the second Vatican Council, Catholic Charities rejected its long-standing emphasis on personal responsibility and self-reliance and began to blame capitalist society rather than individual behavior for poverty and crime. It now looked to the welfare state to solve all social problems. Today, through a continual whirlwind of policy statements and lobbying, and by fostering countless activist community organizations, Catholic Charities has become, as Richard John Neuhaus, a priest and editor of the esteemed religious journal First Things, puts it, "a chief apologist for a catastrophically destructive welfare system, and it stands in the way of developing alternatives to help people break out of dependency and take charge of their lives."
Latin American liberation theology influenced parts of the evangelical movement and Catholic bishops in the United States.[10] Its reliance on "Marxism" led in the mid-1980s to an admonition by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
Their history betrays them. They have long since used every despicable method imagined to attain their desired goals. The fact that they are, quite literally, systematically orchestrating the invasions into sovereign nations by illegal immigrants under the guise of "Christ's love" should be enough to condemn them.
Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum sparked a fierce controversy in 1996 when he rebuked Catholic Charities for drifting away from the faith under the pressure of government funding. Santorum told of a priest he knows who began a psychology internship at a Catholic Charities clinic. The clinic supervisor tested him on three hypothetical counselling situations: a depressed pregnant woman who wants to abort her child, two homosexuals seeking advice on their relationship, and a divorcing couple asking for counselling. In keeping with Catholic teachings, the priest advised against the abortion, refused to endorse homosexual unions, and encouraged the divorcing couple to save their marriage. He failed the test. His supervisor explained: "We get government funds, so we are not Catholic."
Yes the Catholic church takes a stand against ungodly lifestyles, at least exoterically. Their institution, however, has far too great a wicked past for the blame to be put solely on their collusion with the government during the last however many decades...
Very sad.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-catholic-charities-lost-its-soul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology
Their history betrays them. They have long since used every despicable method imagined to attain their desired goals. The fact that they are, quite literally, systematically orchestrating the invasions into sovereign nations by illegal immigrants under the guise of "Christ's love" should be enough to condemn them.
They got bought.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-catholic-charities-lost-its-soul
Yes the Catholic church takes a stand against ungodly lifestyles, at least exoterically. Their institution, however, has far too great a wicked past for the blame to be put solely on their collusion with the government during the last however many decades...