Tag: Liberation Theology
March 29, 2020 /

Ka Sermon Ha Ki Sngi Ka Khlam Corona

Ngi donkam ban iaieng bad iakyrshan lang iwei ia iwei, ym ka jingleh bha, ha ka thma pyrshah ia ka khlam Corona

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March 2, 2020 /

Ernesto Cardenal – Poet, Priest, Marxist

“Ernesto Cardenal, the renowned poet and Roman Catholic cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse in Nicaragua and around Latin America, and whose suspension from the priesthood by St. John Paul II lasted over three decades, died March 1, 2020. He was 95.
RAIOT remembers Cardenal via two piracies. First, an interview on Liberation Theology and second, his most famous poem ORACIÓN POR MARILYN MONROE / PRAYER FOR MARILYN MONROE

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March 28, 2018 /

Would Jesus have done better in politics than in the church?

Christ can’t simply be seen as a religious figure when his life and teaching were so political.

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January 8, 2017 /

WHO IS AFRAID OF A CHURCH FOR THE POOR?

A Church that concerns itself with the poor must raise the question of why they are poor in the first place. The comfortable and the cosseted insist that this question not be asked. Or, failing that, insist that it be dismissed as ludicrous. From their increasingly hyperventilating resistance comes a surprising reminder of the revolutionary power of the gospel.

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December 26, 2016 /

“Worldliness has kidnapped Christmas; we need to liberate it!”

The Gospel reveals a paradox. It speaks of the emperor, the governor, the high and mighty of those times, yet God does not make himself present there. He appears not in the splendour of a royal palace, but in the poverty of a stable; not in pomp and show, but in simplicity of life; not in power, but in astonishing smallness. In order to meet him, we need to go where he is. We need to bow down, to humble ourselves, to make ourselves small.

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August 4, 2015 /

From the Cross to Resurrection and Freedom from Fear

S.J Samartha asked, “There is a Cross in every resurrection. Is there a Resurrection for every Cross? ”In an era of manifest injustices and inequality,…

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