Christ the King by Ermes Dovico

Liberation theology

"To canonise Camara is to canonise communism”
INTERVIEW / LOREDO

"To canonise Camara is to canonise communism”

Dom Helder Camara could soon be declared venerable. Protagonist of liberation theology, sympathetic towards the USSR and China, revolutionary armed struggle was planned in his diocese. A "media and ideological", rather than a religious saint, Julio Loredo, president of the Italian TFP, tells The Compass.