Rev. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones was born in Kingston, Jamaica, where he attended
high school and university. He studied philosophy at Loyola University in
Chicago and has a M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, a M.A.
in creative writing from the University of San Francisco and a S.T.L. from the
Weston Jesuit School of Theology.
He served as a missionary in Guyana,
Brazil, Mexico and Belize.
A former Jesuit priest he is now married to Kathy and they have a son, Mark Anthony Francisco Bozzuti-Jones II. An avid reader, he loves to write and talk Liberation Theology. He is now an Episcopalian priest.
He is the author of three books published by Augsburg Fortress Press: a
children's book on the creation story God Created (to be released in August
2003) and two books on the African- American Spirituals, Never Said a
Mumbalin' Word and Spirituals. Rev. Francisco Bozzuti-Jones is also
the author of The Mitre Fits
Just Fine: A biography of Bishop Barbara Harris (July 2003) and Faith and
Formation (2004), both to be published by Cowley's.
Link (here)
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“… Liberation theologians were the ones who finally succeeded in giving all those airy concepts of Teilhard de Chardin a practical meaning. But that would have been little use among the ordinary masses of believers, had the new “theologians” not succeeded also in transposing the meaning of all the key terms used to convey the basic truths and teachings of traditional Roman Catholicism. In their writings, you can see the quick, skillful way in which it was done.
The Church became the “people of God”, not the hierarchic Church of Rome. Sin is not primarily personal; it is social and almost exclusively the injustice and oppression due to capitalism. Mary the Virgin is the mother of a revolutionary Jesus—indeed of all revolutionaries seeking to overthrow capitalism. The Kingdom of God is the socialist state from which capitalist oppression has been eliminated. Priesthood is either the service given by an individual (the priest) who builds up socialism, or it is “the people of God” as it worships according to its like. The list of such adopted Catholic expressions is as long as you like. For each and every Catholic term about piety, belief, asceticism, and theology is taken over by Liberation Theologians.
The refinement of such co-opted terms permits grinning twists and ugly distortions of Roman Catholicism…ultimately, however, such use of Roman Catholic vocabulary, laden as it is with deep attraction for the faithful, provided an otherwise unattainable legitimacy for a this-worldly blueprint for the future. Cleverly used, the new “theological lexicon” not only justifies but mandates the use of any means—including armed violence, torture, and violation of human rights, deception and deep alliances with professedly atheistic and anti-religious forces…”
Malachi Martin
The Jesuits
The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church
Is Martin a "Servant of God" also?
I love the black Jesus in the background.
Appears the misguided pretend priest like so many others was robbed of the teachings of the Church by his post Vatican II catholic university jesuits.
post vatican 2 jesuits you mean at pre eminent universites here in the US? with the exception of Notre dame all " catholic " universities are garbage just like seminaries
I love the black Jesus and black catholics
no - african american catholic masses have more vibrancy and spunk than others
jesus was not white or roman you know....
Former Jamaican Jesuit now married to Episcopal priestess. Cherchez la femme!
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