Friday, April 13, 2007

Pope's New Book Criticizes Capitalism

Pope's New Book Criticizes Capitalism
By NICOLE WINFIELD
The Associated Press
Friday, April 13, 2007; 4:31 PM

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI offers a personal meditation on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in his first book as pontiff, criticizing the "cruelty" of capitalism's exploitation of the poor but also decrying the absence of God in Marxism.

In "Jesus of Nazareth," released Friday, Benedict touches on themes that have begun to emerge in his 2-year-old papacy: the spiritual weaknesses of modern materialistic life, in which people seem to think they can do without God. continue...

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