RE: [Marxism] Fidel: To blame the Pope for socialism's fall is toosimplistic

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

If John Paul II was such a humanist, why did he support the ultra-montane
Ustache fascists in Croatia in the 1990s?

http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/050406134133.8eoh4am0
http://www.croatiaemb.org/tudjman/biography.html

Why did John Paul II actively repress the movements of Catholic Priests
fighting on the side of the poor in Central America in the 1980s? John Paul
II's Vatican behaved cynically and in a fierecely reactionary manner after
Archbishop Romero was murdered by right-wing death squads in El Salvador,
for example.

Weren't these events in some sense responsible for the rollback of socialist
progress?

PS Now that all the Catholic priests are back on board, let's hope Charles
and Camilla's wedding today goes off without a hitch.


> GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
> Havana. April 7, 2005

> To make the Pope responsible for the fall of socialism is to make too
> simple an analysis of history

> Fidel reiterates similarities between the humanist ideas
> of the Pope and those defended by the Cuban Revolution

> http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/abril/vier8/16fpapa-i.html

> WE fervently want the Pope's example to endure, confirmed
> President Fidel Castro during his special address

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