The recent book, Hitler's Pope, describes how the then pope crushed the
stirrings of a preferential option for the poor. In France, for example,
there was a movement of "Worker priests" -- priests who had taken jobs in
the factories and lived among fellow workers. The pope ended the movement,
and silenced and scattered the priests/bishops who were part of it.
Gene Coyle
Timework Web wrote:
> Hello Arno Tausch,
>
> Around 60 years ago, writing under the shadow of fascism and approaching
> world war, Walter Benjamin declared that theology was wizened and had to
> keep out of sight, but that it was nevertheless the "little
> hunchback" concealed behind mirrors who pulled the levers within the
> chess-playing automat called historical materialism.
>
> Are you familiar with that image? And if so could you comment on the
> relationship between it and your book?
>
> Temps Walker
> Sandwichman and Deconsultant
