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...Peru, a diminutive parish priest chooses his words carefully as he discusses the controversy over his writings that virtually paralyzed the deliberations of his country's 54-member Episcopal Conference for 13 months. Father Gustavo Gutierrez, 56, is a psychologist and author of the 1971 seminal work A Theology of Liberation, which critics have said is imbued with Marxist concepts. Says Gutierrez: "I preach the gospel, nothing else...
...thus providing the opening wedge for liberation theology. In the '70s, as armed insurrection and military dictatorship spread across Latin America, liberation theology took on a more explicitly political dimension. The radical fringe of liberation theology eventually seemed to find its model of change in the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution. Priests and Catholic laymen united with the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas to overthrow Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. In the ensuing euphoria of the Sandinista triumph, the Rev. Paul Schmitz, a U.S. priest who is now a bishop in Nicaragua, declared that the country "is a laboratory for all of Latin America...
...most notable evangelizing innovation. Perhaps as many as 150,000 of these grass-roots Christian communities are scattered across Latin America, roughly half of them in Brazil. In the main, the base communities are a promising attempt to solve an endemic problem in Latin America, the chronic shortage of priests to instruct the majority of the impoverished but deeply religious masses of citizenry and see to their spiritual and social needs. (In Latin America, there is one priest for every 7,000 Catholics, vs. one for every...
...debatable view or opinion," according to a pastoral letter by Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol. "When it comes to speaking about the doctrine of the church, we are not free to make up our own minds," says Archbishop John May of St. Louis. "For a sister or priest to deny the teaching of the church is a scandal . . . a flagrant, flashy and deliberate affront...
...major issue facing the Catholic Church in the U.S. is how it deals with women," says Eugene Kennedy, a former priest who teaches psychology at Chicago's Loyola University. "A fair argument could be made that the Catholic Church in this country is what it is because of women. The whole parochial school system was built by women. So if you lose women, you sustain a loss that you can't make up." That is exactly what is happening in women's religious communities now, says Pat Reif of Immaculate Heart College Center in Los Angeles: "Women are voting with...