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Dates: during 1978-1978
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Wojtyla wrote last year that Jesus Christ is "a reproach to the affluent consumer society ... The great poverty of people, especially in the Third World ?hunger, economic exploitation, colonialism???all these signify an opposition to Christ by the powerful." Advocates of the Marxist-influenced "liberation theology" in Latin America thus hope that the Pope will be sympathetic to their program. But knowledgeable observers in Rome expect the opposite. Asked on West German TV last year whether Marxism could be reconciled with Christianity, Wojtyla replied bluntly: "This is a curious question. One cannot be a Christian and a materialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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