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...back room of a schoolhouse where his mother taught the primary grades. His father, an anticlerical journalist, chose the boy's name from a dictionary rather than the calendar of saints but did not keep his son from studying for the priesthood. Ordained at 22, Father Camara soon moved into religious education-and flirted briefly with the Brazilian version of fascism before moving...
...Camara's efforts at social reform have brought strong negative response from right-wing businessmen and landowners in Brazil, as well as criticism from conservative factions of his own church...
...Camara has become a symbol of Catholic opposition to military dictatorship in Brazil and throughout Latin America...
They have, in addition, provoked atrocities from a Brazilian government primarily concerned with growth, law and order. Some priests, including Camara's personal assistants, have been imprisoned, tortured and slain...
...Most Rev. Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil, and social activist, a Doctor of Laws...