John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.