Word: fortaleza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shantytown, known as Fortaleza, teems with an ever growing population of abandoned women and children. Some are widows, like the one who two months ago, unable to provide enough food, poisoned her children, then herself. Others tell of husbands, brothers and fathers who offended a soldier or national guardsman. Sometimes the bodies were found; more often they were consigned to the black hole of statistics known as "the disappeared...
...Channel--Quilapayun, Fortaleza...
...Faith. Boff recalls the four-hour meeting as "cordial--Ratzinger mainly just sat and listened." The cordiality may have been influenced by the presence at the Vatican of two of Brazil's most influential Cardinals, Paulo Evaristo Arns, Archbishop of Sao Paulo, and Aloisio Lorscheider, Archbishop of Fortaleza, who accompanied Boff on his trip...
Boff, who teaches at a Franciscan institute in Petropolis, claims backing from the progressive majority of Brazil's bishops and reports that 30 have already sent him letters of support. Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider of Fortaleza, former president of the Latin America-wide bishops conference, may even sit at the defense table in Rome. But not all the Brazilian bishops are so sympathetic. Eugenio Cardinal de Araújo Sales of Rio de Janeiro, a leading conservative, warns that liberation theology "constitutes one of the gravest risks to the unity of pastors and the faithful...
...liberals thought they had captured their visitor, John Paul quickly indicated that his liberal social views were entwined with a strong streak of conservatism. At an eight-hour session with most of Brazil's 345 bishops at Fortaleza, he told them they had the "right and duty to practice a social pastorate." But he firmly attached three conditions: there must be no sacrifice of spiritual mission, no "participation in political party activity" by the clergy and no Marxist "concentration of all in the hands of the state." Said the Pope: "We are not experts in politics or economics...