VATICAN CITY, April 4 (UPI) -- Pope Francis, in a taped conversation with Flemish students Thursday, said his concern for the poor does not make him a communist, but merely is evidence of the teachings of the Gospel.
“I am a believer in God and Jesus Christ. For me, the heart of the Gospel is in the poor. I heard two months ago that someone said, ‘With all this talk of the poor, this pope is a communist.’ No, this is a banner of the Gospel, poverty without ideology. The poor are at the center of Jesus’ gospel,” he told the students in a 30-minute interview posted on the Belgian website deredactie.be.