World IN BRIEF : BRAZIL : Vatican Punishes Liberal Theologist
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The Vatican has forced Brazil’s most prominent “liberation theologist” to step down as editor of a liberal Roman Catholic publication, his associates said. Father Leonardo Boff also was pressured by the Vatican to stop teaching theology at an institute in Petropolis, a mountain town near Rio de Janeiro, and to refrain from calls for greater democracy in the church, said Boff’s brother, Waldimar, who is also a Franciscan friar. Boff, who preaches the social and political organization of the poor, was sentenced by the Vatican in 1986 to a year’s “penitential silence” for calling the church “feudal” and “elitist.”
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