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Pope Francis criticized the “ideological exploitation” of the Catholic Church in an interview with the press in his country of birth.
Pope Francis On Friday, I commented in an interview with Teram, an Argentine national news agency. Questions and discussions took place in Spanish, the native language of Pope Francis.
When asking about the Pope’s decade of service at the Holy See and his legacy, the interviewer touched on the roots of Pope Francis in Argentina and asked how his Latin American background influenced his reign. rice field.
The deities praised the history of South American churches and their unique intimacy with the people.
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“Latin American churches have a long history of being close to people. When I first saw the episcopal conference in Medellín, then in Puebla, Santo Domingo, and Aparecida, they were always interacting with the people of God.” Said Pope Francisco. “And it really helped. It’s a truly popular church. It’s the church of God’s people.”
However, the Pope made a distinction between the closeness of South American churches to people and the political corruption of the church.
“When people couldn’t express themselves, it was changed, and it became a trail boss church led by an idyllic agent,” the Pope revealed. “People began to express themselves more and more about their religion, and they became the protagonists of their story.”
Pope Francisco specifically mentioned “Liberation Theology” inspired by Marxism, a Latin American socio-religious movement that fused the communist belief system with the Catholic Church.
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“There were attempts at ideologicalization, such as the use of Marxist concepts in the analysis of reality by liberation theology. It was the ideological exploitation of popular Latin American churches, for example the path of liberation. But there are differences. Between people and populism. “
The Pope walked a long and difficult line between politics and Catholic theology, criticizing both unrestricted capitalism and communism as contrary to the message of Christianity.
His sympathy for South American left-wing populist groups led to criticism of Marxist beliefs.
Cardinal Joseph Zen, a Hong Kong anti-communist activist arrested by the Chinese Communist Party, is a devout supporter of Pope Francis, but openly wonders if the Pope considers communists to be “good guys.” ing.
“Francisco is from South America, and Communists are good people who collude with the rich to protect the poor from the oppression of the junta, so he may be sympathetic to them,” Zen speculates. did. “He has no direct experience of the communist of power, the oppressor of the people.”
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For decades, the Pope has opposed liberation theology and criticized the fusion of church theology and politics.
“After the collapse of’Real Socialism’, these thought streams were in turmoil,” the Pope wrote at the beginning of a 2005 book on Latin American churches. Anachronistically, inertia, even if there are still people today who want to propose it again. “