Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, in today's episode I want to talk about a movement in the Catholic Church

called Liberation Theology and help you understand what's wrong with some aspects of it.

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So what motivated me to talk about today's topic was an article in the Wall Street Journal

called Why the Catholic Church is Losing Latin America.

It was published back in January, so I'm just getting to it now, apologies for that.

Anyway, I want to share with you a few excerpts from it all put together.

It's a little lengthy, but it's really good.

I want to read these excerpts and I'll tell you how it relates to Liberation Theology.

So the article says, for centuries to be Latin American was to be Catholic.

The religion faced virtually no competition.

Today Catholicism has lost adherence to other faiths in the region, especially Pentecostalism,

and more recently to the ranks of the Unchurched.

The shift is continued under the first Latin American Pope.

In a symbolic milestone, Brazil, which has the most Catholics of any country in the world,

is expected to become minority Catholic as soon as this year.

According to estimates by academics, that track religious affiliation.

In Rio State, it has already happened.

Catholics make up 46% of the population according to the latest national census in 2010, and

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