Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quake hit nine hours later, when Pope John Paul II arrived at an airport named for a Mexican President famed for promulgating harsh anti-Catholic laws. John Paul had chosen to make this, his first international journey, to open a critical meeting of bishops from the length of Latin America that will provide the first major look at the policies of his fledgling papacy...
...kiss the Mexican soil. The first people to greet him were Mexico's President José López Portillo and his wife. Under the nation's anticlerical protocol, the Pope was an "unofficial" guest, and the President gave him a handshake instead of a warm Latin embrace. No matter. It seemed as if at least half of the 13 million people who live in greater Mexico City had turned out to welcome him with an overwhelming display of warmth. Along his motor route, there was near hysteria in spots as nuns and urbanites alike jostled...
...Virgin Mary, who is venerated in his homeland as fervently as she is in Mexico. Said he: "We offer you the whole of this people of God. We offer you the church in Mexico and on the whole continent. We offer it to you as your own." Mindful of Latin America's desperate shortage of priests, he said later, "O Mother, awaken in the younger generation readiness for the exclusive service of God; implore for us abundant local vocations to the priesthood...
...Mass inaugurated the third meeting of the Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM); the earlier parleys were held in 1955 and 1968. The Pope's sermon included seven carefully honed paragraphs that constituted a mini-keynote speech. John Paul will amplify these public words during his private meetings with bishops this week at the city of Puebla, site of the 17-day meeting...
...Pope's strategy for countering liberation theology was to take the term and broaden its definition. In his sermon, he spoke of "integral liberation" of the Latin American "seen in his entirety," an apparent indication that in his view, liberation theology has emphasized political and economic needs to the neglect of man's spiritual aspects. He added that the church should show "preferential yet not exclusive love for the poor...