Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1995


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"The Vatican had taken a dim view of Jean-Bertrand Aristide when he was elected president (of Haiti), because he was an ordained priest - a violation of the new canon law's ban on priests running for elective office -...and advocate of the Theology of Liberation... When Aristide was overthrown by the Haitian army, the Holy See became the only state formally to recognize the new military junta. Strange as it may sound, there were no Vatican protests against massive human rights violations...Subsequently, Aristide applied to the Holy See to leave the priesthood...Apart from such startling incongruities, John Paul ll has staked out an unassailable position for his Church in the fundamental areas of social justice and human rights."

-From Pope John Paul ll: The Biography by Tad Szulc. (Scribner).

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