The Secret Roots of Liberation Theology

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Lieutenant General (retired) Ion Mihai Pacepa:

History often repeats itself, and if you have lived two lives, as I have done, you have a good chance of seeing the reenactment with your own eyes.

Liberation theology, of which not much has been heard for two decades, is back in the news. But what is not being mentioned is its origins. It was not invented by Latin American Catholics. It was developed by the KGB. The man who is now the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, secretly worked for the KGB under the code name “Mikhailov” and spent four decades promoting liberation theology, which we at the top of the Eastern European intelligence community nicknamed Christianized Marxism.

Liberation theology has been generally understood to be a marriage of Marxism and Christianity. What has not been understood is that it was not the product of Christians who pursued Communism, but of Communists who pursued Christians. I described the birth of liberation theology in my book Disinformation, co-authored with Professor Ronald Rychlak. Its genesis was part of a highly classified Party/State Disinformation Program, formally approved in 1960 by KGB chairman Aleksandr Shelepin and Politburo member Aleksei Kirichenko, then the second in the party hierarchy after Nikita Khrushchev.

In 1971, the KGB sent Kirill — who had just been elevated to the rank of archimandrite — to Geneva as emissary of the Russian Orthodox Church to the World Council of Churches. The WCC was, and still is, the largest international religious organization after the Vatican, representing some 550 million Christians of various denominations in 120 countries. Kirill/Mikhailov’s main task was to involve the WCC in spreading the new liberation theology throughout Latin America. In 1975, the KGB was able to infiltrate Kirill into the Central Committee of the WCC — a position he held until he was “elected” patriarch of Russia, in 2009. Not long after he joined the Central Committee, Kirill reported to the KGB: “Now the agenda of the WCC is also our agenda.”

During Kirill’s years at the helm of the WCC, liberation theology put down deep roots in Latin America — where the map now has significant patches of red. Russian military ships and bombers are back in Cuba for the first time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and Russia has also newly sent ships and bombers to Venezuela.

Pope John Paul II, who knew the Communist playbook well, was not taken in by the Soviets’ liberation theology. In 1983, his friend and trusted colleague Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), who at that time was head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, discarded as Marxist the liberation-theology idea that class struggle is fundamental to history. The cardinal called liberation theology a “singular heresy” and blasted it as a “fundamental threat” to the Church.

Of course, it was and remains a threat — one deliberately designed to undermine the Church and destabilize the West by subordinating religion to an atheist political ideology for its geopolitical gain.

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Just a small point:
The watch airbrush job:
http://rt.com/news/patriarch-watch-photo-scandal-326/

That the soviets messed with Christianity should surprise no one.
Now, tie all this in with America’s Black Liberation Theology.

Unfortunately, the current Pope is enough of a progressive that it would not at all surprise me for him to advance and inject “liberation theology” amongst the Catholic leadership.

@Ditto:

It is already there. Priests used to give homilies on Catholic doctrine. Now, and for at least a decade, homilies are half baked proclamations of warmed over socialism dressed up with just enough religious “Love one another” comments to pretend to hide the socialist undercurrent. Don’t forget that the American Catholic Church is all in for Obamacare, except for the abortion and birth control mandates. The Church’s political leadership is also backing amnesty for illegal aliens.

@Pete:

The Church’s political leadership is also backing amnesty for illegal aliens.

I think the main reason for them supporting amnesty is because the American Catholic Church opportunistically expects to grow and profit from the influx of illegal alien Catholics. (Thus giving in to the deadly sin of “Greed”)