Lack of criticism from the Left

Pope Benedict XVI condemned new forms of racism in various countries in an appeal last Sunday. The liberal left-wing news magazine Polityka complains on its website that the Catholic Church in Poland has failed to express similar views to those expressed by the Church in Italy. "What a contrast between Ratzinger [Pope Benedict XVI] and the bishops in Poland. In recent days Catholics in Poland were warned ... about the relaxation of the abortion laws - which is not foreseen anyway - rather than about the evils of intolerance and racism. ... We are living in times in which it would be a pleasant surprise to find a Catholic publication in Poland that was prepared to criticise the government as the [Italian weekly] Famiglia Cristiana has done, in other words from a leftist standpoint rather than a right-wing position. Or if a Polish bishop were to express his opinion on a Polish affair, but not from a partisan standpoint in conformity with the Church and party policy but in a way which is Christian and universal, as Ratzinger did in Castel Gandolfo on racism."

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