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...event. It is especially serious, added to the trials already suffered there." Pope John Paul II's words, coming at the end of his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square last Wednesday, were unusually strong, but so was the provocation. Two days earlier, Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government had expelled ten foreign priests, four of them Spaniards, whom It accused of being involved in anti-government activities...
...against all of the expelled priests was that they had criticized the government. "Foreign priests do not have the right to participate in politics against the government," declared Sergio Ramirez, a member of the Sandinista junta. Responded Archbishop Obando: "The government wants a church that is aligned with the Marxist-Leninist regime...
Neither Honduras nor Costa Rica is currently at war. But both border on Nicaragua, whose imposing military buildup and revolutionary Marxist rhetoric have caused its neighbors alarm. Both are also bases for thousands of U.S.-backed contras, Nicaraguan rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government. Now, to varying degrees, Honduras and Costa Rica are growing apprehensive about the close relationship with the U.S. that their geopolitical predicament has forced upon them...
Members of Concilium accuse their critics of a narrow misreading of the ideas of liberation theology. Virgilio Elizondo, president of the Mexican-American Cultural Center in San Antonio says, to "label Liberation theology as one that follows Marxist analysis is to oversimplify the situation." Moreover, he claims that there has been an unfair emphasis on the alleged use of arms to effect social change...
DIED. Michel Foucault, 57, opaque, paradoxical French philosopher-historian, whose concepts of normality, deviance and the exercise of social and political control profoundly influenced psychiatry and penology in many countries and whose modes of thought and post-Marxist politics strongly affected French intellectuals, especially the "new philosophers"; of cancer; in Paris. He began by examining the concept of insanity, arguing in Madness and Civilization (1961) that society uses such ideas to impose normative standards of behavior. In The Birth of the Clinic (1963), The Order of Things (1966) and his unfinished, multivolume History of Sexuality, he reasoned that "power...