The "Virus"

Bishop of Roam: For John Paul II, the World Was His Parish By Robin Wright

...John Paul obviously felt his work didn't end after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe, the end of apartheid and minority rule in Africa, or the collapse of military dictatorships in Latin America. During the last years I covered him, including on a trip to Latvia, he began warning about the dangers of capitalism, specifically the "virus" of Western consumerism as a form of "neo-paganism."

There was another mention of the Pope's remarks about neo-paganism on NPR, but if a neo-pagan is "a person who practices a contemporary form of paganism (as Wicca)", I don't think that's really suitable.