Pure BULLSHIT!
I am 100% certain that the snob is speaking truthfully: Some "Catholics" had great influence on the snob's thinking. In the US, those "Catholics" were called "liberation theologists." Nicaraguans knew them as the boots on their necks and the devils who offered cover for property seizure, murder, and communist party oppression.
Pope Benedict is certainly no defender of those liberation theology bastards and I suspect that he lumps the snob in with their lot. As he should.