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Article: A question of simple honesty. (liberation theology) (column)
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- National Review
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- May 23, 1986
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A QUESTION OF SIMPLE HONESTY
THE VATICAN has dropped the other shoe, and it is clearly the mate of the first. In September 1984 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by the indefatigable Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, issued an Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Theology of Liberation. Entire books have been written condemning that Instruction's condemnation of the alleged synthesis of Christianity and Marxism. At the time, the Vatican promised that there would be a second, more positive document setting forth a correct understanding of human liberation. The Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation, bearing the personal and emphatic ...