The Vatican strikes back. (against the challenge of liberation theology)

From: Monthly Review | Date: April 1, 1985| Author: | Copyright information

THE VATICAN STRIKES BACK

The Vatican's recently released Instruction on Certain Aspects of the "Theology of Liberation' (Dublin: Veritas Publications, 1984; henceforth referred to as Instruction) is doleful but essential reading for those of us who have begun to rethink the traditional hostility between religion and the left. The work of one of Catholicism's leading ideologians, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Instruction is a key link in Pope John Paul II's counteroffensive against the challenge to orthodoxy represented by liberation theology, and is to be seen in context ...

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