Pope Francis: Mixing ‘Marxist ideas’ with Catholic Church is ‘ideological exploitation’

Pope Francis criticized “ideological exploitation” of the Catholic Church in an interview along with his start nation’s information authority.

Pope Francis made the remark Friday to Argentina’s nationwide information company, Télam, in an interview. The questions and dialogue had been carried out in Pope Francis’s native language, Spanish.

In asking concerning the Pope’s decade of the service within the papacy and his legacy, the interviewer touched on Pope Francis’s roots in Argentina and requested how his Latin American background has affected his reign.

The pontiff spoke extremely of the church’s historical past in South America and its distinctive closeness to the individuals.

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Pope Francis is helped by his aide, Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza, left, as he walks with a cane to his weekly common viewers in St. Peter’s Sq. on the Vatican June 1, 2022.
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“The Latin American church has a protracted historical past of being near the individuals. If we go over the episcopal conferences — the primary one at Medellín, then Puebla, Santo Domingo  and Aparecida — they had been at all times in dialogue with the individuals of God,” Pope Francis mentioned. “And that basically helped. It’s a in style church in the actual sense of the phrase. It’s a church of the individuals of God.”

Nonetheless, the pope drew a distinction between the South American church’s proximity to the individuals and political corruption of the church.

“That was altered when individuals couldn’t specific themselves, and it ended up changing into a church of path bosses, with pastoral brokers in command,” the pope clarified. “Folks started to specific themselves increasingly more about their faith, and so they ended up changing into protagonists of their very own story.”

Pope Francis particularly talked about Marxism-inspired “liberation theology,” a socio-religious motion in Latin America that blends communist perception methods with the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis arrives in a wheelchair to attend an viewers with nuns and non secular superiors within the Paul VI Corridor on the Vatican Might 5, 2022.
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“There have been makes an attempt of ideologization, resembling the usage of Marxist ideas within the evaluation of actuality by liberation theology. That was an ideological exploitation, a path of liberation, let’s say, of the Latin American in style church. However there’s a distinction between the individuals and populism,” the pope mentioned.

The pope has walked a protracted and tough line with politics and Catholic theology, criticizing each unbridled capitalism and communism as antithetical to the Christian message. 

His sympathies for left-wing populist teams in South America have led to accusations of Marxist beliefs.

Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi Christmas Day blessing from the principle balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on the Vatican Dec. 25, 2021. 
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, an anti-communism activist in Hong Kong who has been arrested by the Chinese language Communist Celebration, is a religious supporter of Pope Francis however has brazenly questioned if the pope sees communists as “the great guys.”

“Pope Francis comes from South America, the place the communists are the great guys defending the poor from the oppression of army regimes in collusion with the wealthy, so he could have sympathy for them,” Zen speculated. “He doesn’t have direct expertise of communists in energy, oppressors of peoples.”

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The pope has gone on report in opposition to liberation theology for many years, criticizing the mixing of church theology with politics.

“After the collapse of ‘actual socialism,’ these currents of thought had been plunged into confusion,” the pope wrote within the opening of a 2005 ebook on the Latin American church.” “Incapable of both radical reformulation or new creativity, they survived by inertia, even when there are nonetheless some at present who, anachronistically, wish to suggest it once more.”