Human rights in China
Sir,—Father Curnow evades the issue put to him by M. Cuneen (August 13). Injustice is just as inbuilt to the Communist Chinese system as to the South African. Does practical concern by the Commission for Justice and Development for human rights violations depend on the political colour of the violators? Clerical politicking has in the past (for example, over nazism) contributed to some of the most appalling violations of human j-ights. \Vill current political enthusiasms in the church lead to anything different? Father Curnow has said elsewhere (“Listener,” May 30) that he uses the “tools of analysis” developed by marxism. Dorn Helder Camara, a Brazilian Bishop and human rights spokesman, is now a convinced socialist. He was once a convinced fascist. Fascism yesterday. Marxism tomorrow. Naivety every day. Does the church really have anything political to say that is within itself consistent and coherent, let alone congruent with Christianity?—Yours, etc., P. S. BROOKE. August 15, 1981.
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