Word: vatican
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...schools and other institutions under his jurisdiction, and in 1963 took part in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s march on Washington. A strong believer in reconciliation between Catholicism and other faiths, including Judaism, he spoke in an Orthodox synagogue in 1965 and served in the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity...
...Vatican issues a challenge to liberation theology...
...publisher. Matters have become more problematic since then. Boff, 45, is now Brazil's leading exponent of "liberation theology," a controversial movement that blends elements of Marxism with Christianity. Ratzinger is a Cardinal, and Pope John Paul's most powerful theological watchdog at the Vatican...
...will meet on Sept. 7 at the Vatican, when Ratzinger's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will begin an interrogation of Boff to decide whether retractions should be required. It will be the first notable face-to-face grilling of a scholar since left-wing Father Edward Schillebeeckx of The Netherlands was summoned to Rome in 1979. The Boff case could prove far more important, since a movement is on trial as much...
Though Boff has been under close Vatican scrutiny since 1975, the current crisis results from his 1981 book, Church: Charism and Power (due in English next January from Crossroad). Like all liberation theologians, Boff sees the essential mission of Christianity as a political mobilization of the poor. But his book fervently applies similar revolutionary analysis to the structure of the church. In one of the controversial passages, Boff writes that in the classic view "the churchgoer has nothing" while "the bishops and the priests received everything. It is true capitalism." As he explains to TIME, "The Vatican wants to centralize...