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Vatican readmits leftist thinking
BY:JAMES BONE From: The Times September 06, 2013 12:00AM

THE Vatican has begun a historic move to rehabilitate the leftist Catholic movement known as "liberation theology" as the Pope refocuses the church on the poor.

L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper, devoted its centre spread to defending the virtues of liberation theology, which had been anathema since the Cold War.

"With a Latin American Pope, liberation theology could not remain for long in the shadows to which it has been relegated for some years, at least in Europe," wrote Ugo Sartorio, a priest and editor of a Catholic magazine.

Father Sartorio even argued in his piece yesterday that, while serving as archbishop of Buenos Aires, the Pope had been an exponent of the Argentine version of liberation theology.

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