Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope John Paul II is truly concerned with improving conditions in Latin America, he could start by lifting the church ban on birth control. What an enlightened step it would be to promulgate a campaign for planned parenthood...
Behind the gray stone walls of Palafox Seminary in Puebla, Mexico, 184 bishops of the third Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM III) spent 18 days weighing words like poker chips in a high-risk game. At stake was the future of 300 million Roman Catholics, across a continent plagued by poverty and oppression. Would the bishops be swayed by the progressives in their midst and come out in favor of church activism for the coming decades? Or would they take a conservative line and retreat from tactics that threatened confrontation with repressive political regimes? Last week the bishops emerged...
This year marks the centennial of Einstein's birth on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, and all the world seems to be joining the party. In the U.S. and Europe, in Asia and Latin America, even in the Soviet Union, where Einstein's ideas were once considered heresy, academic institutions are vying to outdo each other with special tributes...
Many progressive Catholics found this approach unsatisfactory. Some Latin...
...that the call for evangelism was naive. Wrote Manuel Stephens Garcia, noted Mexico City political columnist: "When you speak of revolution, the problem of hatred and violence immediately emerges. But Brother John Paul, do you believe that the rich and powerful, who now as a hundred years ago imagine Latin America as their own private property, are going to yield their privileged position, their businesses, by a pacific process of civil, moral and spiritual conviction...