Chavez Slams Church's
Political Manipulation P
CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
said Friday that the Catholic Church
leadership is assuming political positions
in line with the radical opposition and is
trying to confuse citizens.
According to the statesman, that church
sector's intention is to distort Venezuela's
reality and attack the path to socialism.
"They try to manipulate the faith of a
people by playing that role," Chavez said.
"These are gentleman, unfortunately bishops,
one cardinal (Urosa Savino), who have taken
the most extreme positions of the world's
reactionary right-wing forces," the
president noted.
Some in the church have rejected the
leadership's clear position of opposition
and expressed support for the process of
change started in 1999, Chavez said in a
telephone conversation with the state TV
channel Venezolana de Television.
What is happening in Venezuela is a battle
of ideas, in which positions are taken,
although some people do it secretly, the
president stated.
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