Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Latin America, the Pope deplores Marxist influences...
...Pope had come to Mexico to address the third continent-wide meeting of Latin American bishops and urge a care fully balanced commitment to both spiritual and social goals. The bishops' meeting at Puebla is discussing church strategy in Latin America, where oppressive regimes and desperate poverty abound. In consequence, many priests have turned to "liberation theology" and revolutionary Marxist thinking. In their view, work for social and economic revolution is central to the church's task...
Just 14 weeks into his reign, John Paul II might have been tempted to avoid this Latin American entanglement, as his short-lived predecessor had planned to do. But a leader with his vigorous makeup could hardly resist the challenge. "The Pope is coming to save the church. It's as simple as that," says a Mexican church analyst. Catholicism's future depends greatly on this region's believers, many of them "baptized but not yet sufficiently evangelized," as a bishop in Peru puts it. Religious education is often scant. Says a Vatican specialist, "In Latin America...
...officials favored the CELAM board's selection of auxiliary Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo from the staunchly conservative Colombian hierarchy as secretary-general, or top staff executive. López Trujillo is a firm, shrewd anti-Marxist who once declared, "I don't believe that in Latin America Marxism has any possibilities. Nor does a capitalism that turns its back on mankind." He is a foe of liberation theology and apparently had a hand in an important critique of it that was released in 1977 by the International Theological Commission, a blue-ribbon group of scholars that...
...this week's closed-door meetings. The left fears that this Pope from Poland will favor the "Polish solution," which uses subtle maneuvering more than confrontation with repressive regimes. Remarks one liberal at the Vatican: "The difference is that in Eastern Europe the regimes are atheistic, while in Latin America they are supposedly Catholic. That gives the Holy See a graver responsibility." The mere presence of the new Pontiff at a conference that could well cause him problems is a sure sign that John Paul II acknowledges that responsibility...