Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since Czarist days has Russia bothered to foster relations with faraway Peru, or has Peru cared about Russia. Now the two are becoming the best of friends. Three weeks ago they agreed to exchange ambassadors. Last week, after twelve days divided between business negotiations and Latin hospitality, representatives of both nations gathered at Lima's graceful Torre Tagle Palace to sign a two-year trade agreement. The precise products and terms are so far uncertain; the Soviet Union, through European middlemen, is already purchasing sizable quantities of Peruvian fishmeal. But the meaning of the event was clear. Peru...
...home long. Having raised money and the support of Fordham University, he set off to Cuernavaca to establish a training center for a new kind of missionary for priest-poor Latin America. The Illich missionaries-priests, nuns, laymen-were to become a sort of Catholic peace corps, awake to the ideas, the language, the culture and the cruel economic and social realities of the area. The center was to become, as one admiring Latin American archbishop would put it later, a place of "incarnation," where Yankees would be born again with Latin American hearts. Gradually, though, its focus became wider...
...from middle to far left. All-even the most radical-were invited to plunge into freewheeling discussions. That in itself was enough to make the center suspect to many conservatives. Then Illich himself spoke out. He complained in the Jesuit magazine America that most North American Catholic efforts in Latin America were thinly disguised colonialism. He suggested in the Catholic magazine The Critic that most future Latin American priests might best be working family men who would only exercise their priestly role part time...
...criticisms of U.S. Catholic programs in Latin America won Illich the enmity of Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, a chief sponsor of such aid programs. Illich's other ideas and the innovations at Cuernavaca provoked mutterings at the Vatican. Cardinal Spellman remained an ally; shortly before his death he flatly refused a request from the Mexican Bishops' Conference to recall Illich "until sustaining reasons are brought forth." But in Rome, Antonio Cardinal Samorè, conservative president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, issued continuing demands for an investigation of Illich and the center, until the Sacred...
...himself, he said, "I am giving up proving my orthodoxy to the Vatican. I have, now, no further desire to do so." Though loyal to basic church doctrine, and to the church's role as a caretaker of Western civilization, Illich is convinced that social reform in Latin America must come from outside the church. Consequently, he will remain at Cuernavaca -even though that means continuing in a lay status while observing the celibacy of a priest...