Brazilian liberation theology advocate Leonardo Boff said the Vatican was facing a "great internal crisis" because it fails to represent the people it serves.Boff, a former priest the late Pope John Paul II sanctioned in 1985 for his leftist views, met here with Paraguayan president-elect Fernando Lugo, a former Catholic bishop who was also suspended by the Vatican for entering politics.
"The Catholic Church is heading toward a crisis because the Vatican has no place for all the world's real Catholic representatives," Boff told reporters after the meeting.
He said Latin America held the largest population of practicing Catholics in the world, and "those Catholics are not well represented" in the Vatican.
Boff said another reason fanning the Vatican's internal crisis is "the zero growth of the Catholic Church in our planet."
Boff was condemned to silence by Pope John Paul II in 1985 after he was sanctioned by then-cardinal and Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Ratzinger, who now presides as Pope Benedict XVI.
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