Is the Pope Getting the Catholics Ready for an Economic Revolution?

By Lynn Stuart Parramore 
 
Is the Pope Getting the Catholics Ready for an Economic Revolution? (Maybe He Read Marx) A specter is haunting the Vatican.

 AlterNet / November 27, 2013      

In 1992, the Catholic Church officially apologized for persecuting 17th-century astronomer Galileo, who dared to assert that the Earth revolved around the sun. In 2008, the Vatican even considered putting up a statue of him.   Could a certain 19th-century atheist philosopher be next?

It is true that in 2009, a Vatican newspaper article put a positive spin on one Karl Marx. The author, German historian Georg Sans, praised Marx for his criticism of the alienation and injustice faced by working people in a world where the privileged few own the capital. Sans suggested that Marx’s view was relevant today: “We have to ask ourselves, with Marx, whether the forms of alienation of which he spoke have their origin in the capitalist system....” Indeed.

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