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Article: John Paul reflection: liberating the poor.(Inside NCR)(Editorial)
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- February 23, 1996
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Pope John Paul II, traveling to Latin America earlier this month, told journalists that liberation theology had retreated after the collapse of communism and was no longer seen as a problem. He said, "Liberation theology was somewhat a Marxist ideology. Today, following the fall of communism, liberation that has fallen a little, too."
Catholic News Service reported that this "was an unusually bland dismissal, coming from a pontiff who for years fought what he saw as liberation theology's Marxist bent." is liberation theology dead?
Brazilian Leonardo Boff, who left the active ministry after he was disciplined by the Vatican for his views, was one of several ...