GRAY: There seems to be some pressure on the Pope from certain Marxist factions within the Church in Latin America to adopt a more Marxist or pseudo-Marxist version of social teaching. Is that part of what you're referring to when you say that certain aspects have to be clarified?
KOLAKOWSKI: In my view, there is no way in which Marxist teaching could be reconciled with Christianity. Marxism is anti-Christian, not contingently, not by accident, but in its very core. You cannot reconcile it. There is no Christianity where no distinction is made between temporal and eternal values. There is no Christianity where one accepts that all earthly values, however important, however crucial to human life, are nevertheless secondary. What the Church is about essentially is the salvation of human souls, and the human soul is never reducible to social conditions. There is an absolute value in the human person. The Church believes that the world - the social world, the physical world - is merely an expression of the divine, and as such it can only have instrumental or secondary value. Without this, there is no point in speaking about Christianity. Source: http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/1989/jul1989p12_636.html
