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Cardinal Paulo E. Arns has died after a long ministry marked by his opposition to the former military dictatorship of Brazil. He believed in liberation theology, and when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope John Paul II’s conservative enforcer and eventual successor, tried to rein him in, Arns threatened to denounce Church militarists in Ratzinger’s own Germany. (Dario Lopez-Mills/Associated Press)

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