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Borrowing a leaf from the evolutionary theme of French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the theologians interpret human history as an upward curve, with God acting with man in a cooperative process of liberating humanity and the world. Sin is anything that resists or undercuts this process, or any oppression of one person-or group-by another. Salvation lies in a commitment to love of neighbor and thus a willingness to fight oppression, with revolution if need be. Camilo Torres, the Colombian guerrilla priest who was shot down by government troops in 1966, is the folk hero of liberation theology...
...Detroit last week to argue that their theology has a prophetic role in northern industrial societies. Sounding a recurrent theme, Peruvian Economist Javier Iguiñiz told an opening session at the conference that "the growth of capitalism is the same as the growth of world poverty." Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo, author of one of the movement's key works, A Theology for Artisans of a New Humanity, warned that the church, if it is to have any validity, "must become a function of liberation...
...sort of liberation? The question was put poignantly by a U.S. nun who asked in one group discussion, "Do we have to opt for revolution?" The theologians' answer is yes-although they hasten to add that revolution covers a broad range of options, not all of them violent. Jesuit John Coleman of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union says that there are elements of selflessness and idealism in the U.S. tradition that could be used to inspire Americans to "fight for structural reforms [that] most would call revolutions." But the blacks, feminists, Chicanos, American Indians and other North American...
...Jesuit Priest Donald Campion, editor in chief of America magazine, put the emphasis on the publicity involved: "If she did err it was in the area of taste, not morality." But many of those who support Mrs. Ford's views also backed her televised advocacy of them. AT LAST, A REAL FIRST LADY! exclaimed one telegram to the White House, where mail was running about evenly for and against Mrs. Ford's opinions. Added Washington Post Television Columnist Sander Vanocur: "Betty Ford should be banned from television. She is too honest. Mrs. Ford wears her defect like diamonds...
Boasted of Money. Marks provided the most detail about a Belgian Jesuit priest named Roger Vekemans, who arrived in Chile in 1957 and founded a network of social-action organizations, one of which grew to have 100 employees and a $30-million-a-year budget. In 1963, Marks reported, Vekemans boasted to Father James Vizzard, now Washington lobbyist for the United Farm Workers, of getting money from the CIA. After a meeting with President Kennedy and CIA Director John McCone, Vekemans had dinner with Vizzard in Washington and said with a grin: "I got $10 million-$5 million overt...