Pope says he was not offended by the crucifix gave Evo.

Pope says he was not offended by the crucifix gave Evo.

Pope says he was not offended by the crucifix gave Evo.

Pope Francisco says Monday that not offended by the crucifix on the sickle and hammer that gave the Bolivian president, Evo Morales.

"I understand this work, for me it was not an offense," said the pontiff on the trip back from his tour of Latin America and said that must be contextualized to the time in which he lived the artist who created it, the Spanish Jesuit settled in Bolivia Luis Espinal, tortured and killed.

Francisco made the remarks during a press conference aboard the plane, which was traveling Efe, who brought him back from his visit to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay.

Morales gift to the pope, a cross with a sickle and hammer that had designed the Jesuit Luis Espinal, was controversial among those who saw it as an insult or anything offensive against religion. The Argentine Pope said he did not know who the father Espinal was also a sculptor and poet and described in order to "protest art". (See also: The Communist crucifix Evo Morales shocked the Pope Francisco).

He cited the example of this type of art a sculpture he saw in Buenos Aires and representing a Christ on a bomber and he wanted to serve critical for "Christianity allied with imperialism bombing". He acknowledged that the art of protest, "in some cases it may be offensive" but this time it was not and has brought with him the gift he did Morales.

Francisco said the father Espinal was one of the exponents of Liberation Theology, in which one of its many branches "proposed by the Marxist analysis of reality" He recalled how in several reports, also of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the faith, that Marxist and in a later document dicastery (Vatican ministry) hosted its Christian perspective (as the option of the Church for the poor) vision was criticized.

During his visit to Bolivia, the pope wanted to stop at the place where was found dead this Spanish Jesuit. Francisco reported that Espinal was an enthusiastic "this analysis of reality and Marxist theology using Marxism" and that "this work emerged, gender protest".

"It was a special man, with such human genius and struggling, had good faith. Making a hermeneutics like this I understand. For me it was not an offense, but I had to do this hermeneutics" he added. He clarified that donated to the Virgin of Copacabana, patroness of Bolivia, the two awards he gave Evo Morales, because, although the president did with goodwill, he "did not receive awards." "Instead the Christ bring it with me," he said.

Global news U.S News World Wide News Monday, July 13, 2015