Vatican Approves Sainthood Process for Helder Camara, Patron of the Brazilian Catholic Left
By Julio
Severo
Just
weeks after official announcement of the beatification of the leftist
Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, murdered in 1980, the Vatican has given a
green light for the sainthood process for a Brazilian bishop known for
radically promoting the liberation theology: Helder Camara (1909-1999).
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In an
interview to the Catholic TV network Canção Nova, Saburido said, “Helder Camara
was a courageous prophet who faced many hardships, especially under the military
repression.”
Saburido
added that Camara exerted great influence in Brazil. From a leftist
perspective, he is right.
The
most outspoken critic of the 1964-85 Brazilian military rule was Camara, who
was called “Red Bishop” because of his Marxist stances.
In
1973, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a U.S.-based leftist
organization, the American Friends Service Committee.
According
to Dr. Constance Cumbey in her book “The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow,” the
Brazilian bishop played a prominent role in international New Age events.
Camara
was one of the founders of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (NCBB),
the most powerful Catholic organization in Brazil, the largest Catholic nation
in the world.
For
decades, NCBB has kept the Catholic population in Brazil under its Marxist
spell and it is credited for having helped to found the ruling Workers’ Party,
which has kept Brazil enslaved under its pro-Cuba socialism for 13 years.
Archbishop
Fernando Saburido, who made the beatification request to the Vatican, is no
less controversial than the liberation theology bishop he wants beatified.
Saburido
began to cause concern among Brazilian pro-lifers when he made remarks in 2010
that seemed to excuse an abortion performed on a minor in the archdiocese. “The
decision is for the parents, who have all of the freedom to act in the way that
they believe to be most convenient,” the archbishop said in a television
interview.
Although
Saburido issued a clarification following the interview in which he retracted
his statements, he found himself embroiled in another controversy, when Jorge
Ferraz of the blog “Deus lo Vult” revealed that the archbishop had led a march
under the banner, “The Cry of the Excluded” (Grito dos Excluídos), in which
pro-abortion, homosexualist, and socialist organizations had freely participated.
The
Catholic university under Saburido’s responsibility held a 2011 symposium on
“homoaffective law,” which gave advocates of the homosexual agenda a platform
for promoting their ideology.
According
to the homosexualist website MixBrasil, the symposium included such speakers as
Fr. Luis Correa Lima, founder of “Catholic Diversity” (Diversidade Catolica),
which openly seeks to normalize and legitimize the homosexual lifestyle and
“gay identity.” One of the main speakers was Jean Wyllys, the most prominent
homosexualist member of the Brazilian Congress.
Leftism
in the Catholic Church has been a source of worry.
According
to a recent BBC report in Spanish and Portuguese by Jaime Gonzalez, American
conservatives see Pope Francis as Marxist and radical environmentalist.
What
happens when a liberal Brazilian Catholic archbishop asks a Marxist pope for
the beatification of a Brazilian Marxist Catholic bishop?
If Helder
Camara is beatified, the Brazilian Catholic Left, especially the National
Conference of Bishops of Brazil (NCBB), will be sanctified.
While
Brazil waits his beatification, the Vatican has named Camara “Servant of God.”
With
information from National Catholic Reporter, Canção Nova, LifeSiteNews and
Estadão.
Portuguese
version of this article: Vaticano
autoriza processo de beatificação de Dom Hélder Câmara, patrono da esquerda
católica no Brasil
Source: Last Days Watchman
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