They certainly do. I suppose that the division of the leadership of the church is seen as a step in the right direction for people like Mr Fox, let alone the upheaval in the laity. People like him it seems would like nothing more than a complete redefinition of truth.
This is also interesting. The progressives know one of their own and, yes, they are having a ball. Pope compares Trump to Hitler.
Sometimes I think it is instructive to listen with the heart as well as the head. What they said with their tongues, well they were just so much buzzing flies a nonsense. But look into those two gentlemens eyes and into their souls, a deep, deep, deep sadness and darkness. .They have taken a wrong turning and a very wrong path and have travelled so very far along it, the devil carrying them along over his shoulder , chuckling all the while. Poor men, please pray for them. Poor, poor lost souls. It is easy to ask for the grace for the conversion of someone who has never know God..but for an Apostate and worse and Apostate priest almost impossible. But with God nothing shall be considered impossible. Prayers going up!! Nothing like a challenge.
Matthew Fox was never really a Catholic. He devised something called 'creation spirituality' which is much closer to paganism - there really isn't anything about Christ's saving death on the cross, for instance, because sin isn't personal, but institutional... He was always something of a Californian hippy and there is a whiff of the 60s about him. The film is not as clever as it thinks it is. The discussion turns to Opus Dei and there is a still photo of St JPII and Cardinal Ratzinger with another priest - wearing a Passionist inisgnia. By way of backup, they show an article in the Guardian. And Matthew Fox makes it clear that 'the left' are his chosen tribe. The jokes about Cardinal Burke are unseemly. However Fox isn't stupid, he recognises that the younger churchmen are orthodox. For instance Fox himself is 76. Cardinal Burke at 68 isn't exactly a young thing, but he is still younger than the most embittered libs. I don't think either of those two gentlemen have studied the writing of Joseph Ratzinger on Liberation Theology - he writes sympathetically about the plight of the poor and is on record as saying that Archbishop Romero is a saint. No where does he relish 'brutal capitalism'. Liberation Theology is a many-headed beast, it means different things to different people. Espousing revolution and empowerment of the poor as a substitute for Christ's redeeming work on the Cross, is not authentically Christian. Not all Liberation Theologians teach this however. Padraig is right, those two men are poor people, lost in their own me-centred world view. We should indeed pray for them and all those who hate the truth - one of my daughters has been praying for Richard Dawkins for some time.
