3 September 1984 A.D. Vatican Squeezes Marxist Theologians—JP2 & the Ratzinger (The Bavarian German Shepherd, “The Battle Ship16,” later Benedict XVI)
3 September 1984 A.D. Vatican Squeezes Marxist Theologians—JP2 & the Ratzinger (The Bavarian German Shepherd, “The Battle Ship16,” later Benedict XVI) Graves, Dan. “Vatican Rebuked Theology of Marxists.” Christianity.com. Apr 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1901-2000/vatican-rebuked-theology-of-marxists-11630849.html . Accessed 19 May 2007. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI, was a close ally of Pope John Paul II. As Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome, his pronouncements carried weight. On this day, September 3, 1984 he denounced aspects of a theology which had been growing in popularity in Latin American countries. In the second half of the 20th century, Liberation Theology, a fusion of Christian and Marxist ideals, emerged from among some of Spanish America's prominent Catholic theoreticians. Marxist ideas seemed to propel the religious. In Liber...