{"id":105,"date":"2008-06-30T10:01:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=105"},"modified":"2008-07-04T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T15:16:37","slug":"cesar-chavez-as-henry-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/cesar-chavez-as-henry-viii-105.htm","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Chavez as Henry VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

I doubt that this will go anywhere, but it should provide some entertainment for a while.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Miami Herald <\/a>reports:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A church modeled in part after one in Miami but with a ”revolutionary” spirit that praises Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez is now at the center of a religious and social controversy in Venezuela.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Although it has adopted many of the symbols and rites of Roman Catholicism, the new Reform Catholic Venezuelan Church departs from traditional belief in some key ways.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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For example, reformists consider that ”homosexuality and bisexuality are not sins in and of themselves.” Divorce is allowed and priests do not take vows of chastity.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The new church uses the language of liberation theology:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to its leaders, the reformist church seeks to establish an institution that is “inclusive, participatory and with a strong Bolivarian spirit that recognizes Jesus Christ as the Lord of History. He is present in the revolutionary process that is occurring in Venezuela.”<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is not the first time politicians in Venezuela have tried this trick:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Attempts to establish churches with political motivations are nothing new to Venezuela. In the mid 1940s several government leaders who had declared themselves anti-clerical decided to establish a Catholic Apostolic Church of Venezuela, by forging the ordainment of a bishop.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u00a0wonder how Catholics who agree with the new Church\u2019s agenda will react?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I doubt that this will go anywhere, but it should provide some entertainment for a while. \u00a0 The Miami Herald reports: \u00a0 A church modeled in part after one in Miami but with a ”revolutionary” spirit that praises Venezuelan President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez is now at the center of a religious and social controversy in Venezuela. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1114,108,110,109],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catholic-church","tag-cesar-chavez","tag-liberation-theology","tag-venezuela","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}