Word: puebla
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...Puerto Tejada when he started to help the citizenry demand potable water. In Argentina, government repression has all but destroyed the comunidades. But elsewhere, throughout the hemisphere, the little groups have become a force to be reckoned with. Last February at the Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) in Puebla, Mexico, the comunidades were given a special boost. The 220-page final document of the conference lauded them as "one of the motives for joy and hope for the church" and "the focal point of evangelization, the motor of liberation...
Compromise at Puebla...
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...
Progressives in Puebla were not at first counting on such an outcome. Pope John Paul II, in his opening speech at the conference, had denounced social injustice but also warned the bishops not to politicize the church, and to eschew violent reform−a delicate balance that discouraged many progressives by its ambiguity. A source of more distress was Colombian Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo, the CELAM secretary general who reportedly had received Vatican approval to stack the group with conservatives to avoid a reprise of the 1968 CELAM II in Medellin, Colombia. There, a liberal minority pushed through...
...liberation-theology strategists who were observing the Puebla meeting assumed a low profile. They issued no public response to the Pope and pursued behind-the-scenes politicking among friendly bishops from Brazil and elsewhere. The bishops' meeting will run until Feb. 13, and the progressive bishops hope to wring from it an explicit condemnation of right-wing "national security" tactics and capitalist exploitation. They may succeed...