Pope Benedict XVI closed his five-day trip to Brazil with a speech that, in some ways, he has been waiting thirty years to give. Its heart was that attempts to solve social and political problems without Christ lead to ruin – and, he said, the 20th century offered spectacular examples in the failures of both Marxism and capitalism.Preaching Christ, the pope implied, is not a distraction from working for justice – it is working for justice. In a 6,000 word address to open the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, the pope said that...
