Google – AFP, 15 December 2013
Pope
Francis greets worshippers at St Peter's Square in the Vatican,
on April 10,
2013 (AFP/File, Alberto Pizzoli, Alberto Pizzoli)
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Vatican
City — Pope Francis said he knew a lot of "good" Marxists but was no
communist himself, following criticism of his diatribes against unfettered
capitalism from conservative commentators in the United States.
"Marxist
ideology is wrong. But in my life I have met a lot of Marxists who are good
people, so I do not feel offended," Francis said in an interview with the
Italian daily La Stampa published on Sunday.
He said his
condemnations of the inequality caused by the current global economic system
were not intended to be an expert analysis and were only a reiteration of the
social doctrine of the Catholic Church.
"That
does not mean being a Marxist," he said.
US radio
host Rush Limbaugh labelled as "pure Marxism" a text published by the
pope last month in which he warned that an unfair economic system
"kills" and warned that unregulated capitalism was "a new
tyranny".
The
criticism of the pope, who witnessed the effects of a devastating economic
collapse first hand in his homeland Argentina, was repeated by members of the
Tea Party movement and the television channel Fox News.
Francis is
himself a moderate conservative and was a fierce critic of the leftist-inspired
Liberation Theology movement in Latin America, although he has recently
appeared to reconcile with its leaders.
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