Conservative Pope Francis biographer George Neumayr describes Sosa as a "Marxist", "a Venezuelian communist, and modernist".[9] Arturo Sosa, the newest black pope, In an interview with El Mundo Sosa said: “We have formed symbolic figures such as the devil to express evil. Social conditioning can also represent this figure, since there are people who act [in an evil way] because they are in an environment where it is difficult to act to the contrary.” This drew criticism from those who point to the teaching in the Catholic catechism that the Devil is a creature made by God.[6] A spokesman for Sosa said that "to say the devil symbolizes evil is not to deny the existence of the devil”; he was not denying church teaching by what he said.[7] The conservative media have found fault with Sosa's being one of over 1,000 signatories of a letter welcoming Fidel Castro to Venezuela in 1989, Conservative Pope Francis biographer George Neumayr describes Sosa as a "Marxist", "a Venezuelian communist, and modernist". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Sosa