ROME – Pope Francis met with a group of Marxists at the Vatican on Wednesday and advised them to continue pursuing dialogue with Christians.
On Wednesday, the Pope received Delegation from the Transversal Dialogue Project (DIALOP). consensus” From Christian social education, Marxist critical theory, and feminism.
For many years, DIALOP “has been committed to promoting the common good through dialogue between socialists/Marxists and Christians,” the Pope said in his speech. addresscalls the initiative “a great program!”
“Never lose the power to dream!” he told them. “Never retreat, never give up, never stop dreaming of a better world.”
DIALOP leader credit Pope Francis said he was an inspiration for their project, saying the Pope met with two left-wing politicians, Alexis Tsipras and Walter Baier, in 2014 to discuss the environmental and global social crises. I pointed out that.
“At the end of his audience, Pope Francis called on the visitors to start an intersectional dialogue that can involve the widest sections of society, and especially young people,” DIALOP's website states. There is.
“We agreed on the need to continue dialogue with the European left and the Christian Church,” Prime Minister Tsipras said. “We need to build an ecumenical alliance against poverty, inequality, and the logic of markets and profits over people.”
In a 2022 opinion piece, DIALOP compared the words of the Virgin Mary in the Magnificat to Karl Marx's “Categorical Imperative.''
“As careful readers of the Marxist tradition rightly emphasize, toppling those in power from their thrones must reverse all the conditions under which humans are degraded, enslaved, and abandoned. “It is similar to Karl Marx's categorical imperative,” the paper states. .
“Even in the Magnificat and in Marx, the view of the weak in society leads to demands for fundamental change,” he added.
The Catholic Church, the newspaper argues, is slowly moving from its early condemnation of socialism to a more welcoming stance.
“Perhaps the best comment about the change in mentality this represents comes from liberation theologian L. Boff, who emphasized that the Pope (Francis) has made liberation theology a full part of the church's official narrative. “The magazine declares.
“And for the Pope, he commented, a poor person is not essentially a poor person, but a poor person. One is not poor, but is made poor,” the newspaper claims.
“Pope Francis' message that 'this economy is killing us' has united us,” the paper claims. “We are also united in the recognition that it is economic, political, cultural and international relations that create unholy and destructive trends.”
As an interesting side note, in 2015 Ion Mihai Pacepa, a three-star general and former head of communist Romania's secret police who defected to the United States in 1978, was arrested. said Liberation theology was a creation of the KGB, which exported it to Latin America as a means of introducing Marxism to the continent.
“Liberation Theology has generally been understood to be a fusion of Marxism and Christianity. What is not understood is that it is not the product of Christians who pursued communism, but the product of communists who pursued Christianity. “That is,” Pachepa argued.
Pasepa is called “The most important defector of the Cold War” Said Liberation theology was not a grassroots movement, but was born out of the secret 1960s Party-State Dezinformatsiya project approved by KGB chairman Alexander Shelepin.
The plan called for “the KGB to secretly take control of the World Council of Churches (WCC), based in Geneva, Switzerland, and use it as a front to transform liberation theology into a revolutionary tool in South America.” said Pasepa.
Pope Francis insisted that “liberation theology has been good for Latin America,” but acknowledged that there were “deviations” that needed to be corrected.
