Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event particularly venerates the Eucharist, the ritual in which, according to traditional Catholic doctrine, bread and wine are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ. With its emphasis on ceremony and doctrine, the congress could have little bearing on the problems of poverty and social callousness that plague Latin America. Pope Paul selected Colombia, Latin America's most unshakably Catholic country, as the site for this year's event, frankly calling the honor "a prize for Colombia's illustrious services to the Catholic cause...
...pasture outside Bogota. On a "Day of Conversion," 20 Andean Indians-who left aside their usual breechcloths to don city clothing for the first time-were publicly baptized, received first Communion and were confirmed all on the same day. Later, showing his concern for the shortage of priests in Latin America, the Pope ordained 161 priests and deacons in a group ceremony. Four of the new deacons have wives, and thus became Latin America's first married clergy under a 1967 authorization by Paul reviving the ancient institution of the diaconate. In a touch of ecumenism, three Protestants, including...
...village of Mosquera, 13 miles from Bogota, where the Pope was set down by helicopter before 50,000 campesinos. Leaving his copter, Paul boarded a white Jeep and, for half an hour, drove through a multitude of awed faces. Present in the crowd were "typical" peasants from 21 Latin American coun tries, selected to attend the confrontation with the Pontiff. Bolivia sent the head of its National Peasants' Union...
...reconciliation and reform. He advised the new priests to "be able to understand men's concerns and to transform them. not into anger and violence, but into the powerful force of constructive work." At Mosquera, he told the campesinos: "We know how, in the great continent of Latin America, economic and social development has been unequal. It has passed over the multitude of the indigenous peoples, who have almost always been abandoned to an ignoble level of life...
...Pope added: "We will continue to denounce unjust economic inequalities between rich and poor. We exhort all the governments of Latin America and also those of other countries, as well as the managerial and well-to-do classes, to persevere in facing the reforms necessary for a more just and efficient social arrangement." Facing up to Latin America's social ills, Paul declared, demands "progressive advantage for the classes today less favored and fairer imposition of the fiscal burden on the more well-to-do classes, especially upon those who own vast estates and on those classes who, with...