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...mile pilgrimage within Brazil came at a time when relations between the Vatican and bishops of the largest Roman Catholic nation were badly strained. Many Brazilian bishops resent the Vatican's investigation of Leonardo Boff, Brazil's leading proponent of "liberation theology," which is built upon Marxist economic theory. When the Vatican asked Progressive Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns to discourage a meeting of liberation theologians, he pointedly ignored the request. In turn, the Pope has rejected the suggestions from the Brazilians in his past four appointments of new bishops for their country...
...Brazil's most serious problem. More than 30 million people have been driven off the land and into the slums since 1964 to make way for industry and agribusiness. The bishops declared the government's economic policies are responsible for the hardship. Though some labeled the action "Marxist inspired," the bishops condemned the use of land for exploitation, urging instead land in the hands of those who work...
...made no comments on these specific church actions, but he may lay down general guidelines at a meeting of Brazil's bishops this week. Last week he steadily strengthened the hand of Brazil's progressives, in effect trying to seize the initiative in social action from Marxist revolutionaries. But as in Mexico last year, he issued notes of caution lest Catholics be lured into concluding that ends excuse any means...
Definitions in the Atheist's Dictionary are written to conform with the basic Marxist line that religion is either 1) pure superstition or 2) "the opium of the people." God? An idea "used to justify and protect the social order of exploiters." Heaven? It distracts people from "the real tasks of the Communist rearrangement of life on earth." Conversely, hell dampens "the rage of the working people against their oppressors by planting a hope that the latter will be punished after death." Easter fosters "ideas of a class peace and forgiveness." Christ's love-thy-neighbor teaching...
...held the Russian imperial family in thrall. Originally published in the magazine Our Contemporary, which has a circulation of 300,000, the novel caused a sensation as much for its scenes of debauchery as for its virulent antiSemitism. Unfavorable reviews, which criticized the book for its non-Marxist attitudes and hostile treatment of Jews, merely piqued readers' interest. Not only are black market second-hand copies of Our Contemporary selling at $150, but typewritten copies of a longer, unexpurgated text of At the Last Frontier are being passed from hand to hand...