Pope Francis says communists are really ‘closet Christians’

Pope Francis has claimed that Communists are closet Christians, who have appropriated the Gospel’s central message of poverty.
The leader of the Catholic Church, whose uninhibited criticisms of capitalism have seen him labelled a Marxist, said in an interview published on Sunday that communists had “stolen” the flag of Christianity.

 

The 77-year-old pontiff spoke to Rome’s local newspaper, Il Messaggero, to mark the feast day of Saints Peter and Paul. He said: “I can only say that the communists have stolen our flag. The flag of the poor is Christian. Poverty is at the centre of the Gospel.”

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