Pope Benedict XVI has criticised "authoritarian governments" in Latin America, in a speech at the end of his five-day tour of Brazil.
He condemned the growing gap between rich and poor, blaming both Marxism and capitalism for the region's problems.
In his opening address to the two-week bishops' conference, the Pope attacked unnamed governments in Latin America that he said were "wedded to old-fashioned ideologies which do not correspond to the Christian vision of man and society".
He warned that the worsening gap between rich and poor was causing a loss of dignity through drugs, alcohol "and deceptive illusions of happiness".
I considered trying to write something pithy or satirical about the head of the Roman Catholic church decrying the gap between rich and poor and old-fashioned ideologies, but I just gave up. I mean how do you lampoon that?
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