(12/11/09)  In his address to prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, on Saturday, December 5, Pope Benedict XVI highlighted how the Church “has always supported universities and their vocation to take human beings to the highest level of knowledge, of truth and of dominion of the world in all its aspects.” The Holy Father also expressed his gratitude to the religious congregations which founded and still support “various famous universities in Brazil,” and recalled that these universities “are not the property of those who founded them, or of those who frequent them, but an expression of the Church and of her heritage.” During the same address, Pope Benedict also remarked on the 25th anniversary this year of the Congregations for the Doctrine of the Faith’s instruction Libertatis nuntius, which he said “highlights the danger involved in the uncritical absorption, by certain theologians, of theses and methodologies that come from Marxism.” Pope Benedict noted how the manifest consequences of “liberation theology” characterized by “rebellion, division, dissent, offence and anarchy” still linger today. The Holy Father then made an appeal to “all who, in the depths of their being, feel in some way attracted, involved or encouraged by some of the misleading principles of liberation theology” to make a reexamination of Libertatis nuntius. Source: Vatican Information Service