ON the papal flight from Cuba to Washington DC, where the Pope held his customary press conference with journalists, there were tough questions.<\/p>\n
What was the Holy Father’s response to questions about him being a ‘Leftie’, even a ‘communist Pope’? The Pope did not seem surprised by these questions.<\/p>\n
After all, he is a Pope who engages with the situation in which real people find themselves involved and Cuba is a ‘remnant communist state’.<\/p>\n
However, correctly, he denied that any of his teachings were outside those of the Social Teaching of the church.<\/p>\n
“I’m sure that I haven’t said anything more than what’s written in the social doctrine of the Church”, he responded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, the Pope is right, and the social teaching of the Catholic church has rightly be described as the Church’s ‘best kept secret’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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