From: George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
JP II sanctioned some priests (even publicly) mostly in Central/Latin
American. This is well known as their opposition to abortion/euthanasia.
Was JP II's involvement in Poland's & Eastern Europe's liberation a
beneficial one? How does one balance liberating Eastern Europe with asking
priests not to be involved in liberation movements in Latin America?
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Dear George,
Please allow me to step by abortion and euthanasia as far as Pope John Paul
and Liberation Theology is concerned. Those are great topics for another
day.
I am happy that you brought up the Anti-Communist movement in Poland; one
with which Pope John Paul was connected.
It should then come as no surprise to anybody that John Paul II opposed the
Latin American Liberation Theologians who had joined hands with Marxist
Communists even to the point of supporting the violent overthrow of
governments.
As much as I want to agree that the Church must be involved in every aspect
of life in a country, I strongly oppose the involvement of the Church in
active partisan politics.
Do you believe that Catholic Priests should have been part of the
Marxist-Leninist Sandanista Government in Nicaragua? Would it have been a
good thing for them to do so, even from an organisational point of view.
Did it not strike you that A Catholic Marxist-Leninist Priest would be an
epitomy of an Oxymoron?
Perhaps not.
jc
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