VATICAN - TODAY ON THE INTERNET - The founder of 'Russia Cristiana Centre', Fr Romano Scalfi, tells Zenit: “ Marxist hope is Utopianism” - Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate open new mission in India

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Compared to Christian hope, “Marxist hope is Utopianism ”, says Fr Romano Scalfi, founder of Russia Cristiana Study Centre. Commenting for Zenit new agency the new encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI Spe salvi, the priest highlight to space given in the document to Marxism and the Communist revolution, which - the Pope writes - “was most radical in Russia”. Pope Benedict XVI explains that Marx “thought than once the economy had been settled, everything would fall into place”, forgetting that “man is always man”. “He forgot man and he forgot man's freedom. He forgot that freedom is always freedom, even for evil”, the Pontiff says. Fr Scalfi says the new Encyclical “is of particular importance, now that these ideologies have fallen”.
- For a long time Bishop John Mulagada of Eluru diocese in India had asked the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate in India to open a parish and a mission in his diocese which is near the diocese of Vijayawada where the Oblates have worked for 25 years. At last with 10 new priests (August 2007), the Administrative Delegation decided to undertake this new missionary adventure. (C.E.) (Agenzia Fides 06/12/2007; Righe 14 - Parole 195)