Brazil: The Rotten Fruits of 'Liberation Theology'

The Catholic Church continues to decline in Brazil, a country that used to be a hotbed of anti-Catholic 'liberation theology', while the number of Protestants and agnostics is increasing.

Data from the 2022 Brazilian Demographic Census has just been published. The results: From 2010 to 2022, the number of Catholics declined by 8.4 percentage points, standing in 2022 at 56.7%.

Protestant sects grew by 5.23 percentage points, reaching 26.9% in 2022. 9.3% of the population are people without religion.

In the 1970s and 1980s, 90% of the population was Catholic, at a time when "Liberation Theology" was prevalent and propagated the pauperism ideology. As a consequence, the Novus Ordo Church chose the poor, but the poor chose the Protestant sects. The Novus Ordo secularised, and the decline accelerated.

The 'prophets of doom', criticised by John XXIII in his opening speech at the Second Vatican Council on 11 October 1962, deserve an apology.

"I believe that Brazil is a paradigmatic example of many of the [foolish] experiments carried out in the Church from the end of the Second Vatican Council to the present day", writes Juanjo Romero on InfoCatholica.com (9 June).

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