John Paul’s debt to Marxism

The Tablet
14/01/2006

John Paul’s debt to Marxism
Jonathan Luxmoore and Jolanta Babiuch

The late Pope is often portrayed as an enemy of the extreme Left, but an unpublished early work, Catholic Social Ethics, reveals that he was much less dismissive of the ideology prevalent in his native Poland than has recently been suggested When a Polish supplementary tribunal for John Paul II’s beatification began work in Krakow this November, a key task was to examine the late Pope’s pre-papal writings, for the light they threw on his firmness of faith and loyalty to Catholic doctrine.

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