Many people wonder whether the current crisis in the Church began with the Second Vatican Council. Others believe that the crisis predates the council, and therefore the latter cannot be accused of causing it. The reality is more complex. If the Church were not in crisis, the Second Vatican Council, with all … Read more
Ion Pacepa, a former member of the Romanian secret service who fled to the West in the seventies, recently gave an interview to the Catholic News Agency narrating how the KGB (Soviet secret service and political police) created liberation theology. “The movement was born in the KGB and had a KGB-invented name: … Read more
“It seems clear today that the purpose of the Church is not to save in the sense of ‘guaranteeing heaven.’ The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history…. the Church is to be ‘reconverted’ to the service of the workers in the class struggle.” These statements are drawn from the … Read more