Word: reformations
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...regard the Roman Catholic Church as an enemy or a neutral -certainly not as an ally. But in several Latin American countries the late Pope John's influence - and in particular his 1961 encyclical Mater et Magistra, calling for social justice - set off a new spirit of reform and social action in the church...
More than Sermons. Perhaps the most outspoken advocate of social change and reform among Latin American prelates is Raul Cardinal Silva Henriquez, 55, Archbishop of Santiago and primate of Chile. A square-jawed intellectual, Cardinal Silva Henriquez collects pottery and rare books, tries to discourage visitors from kneeling to kiss his ring. Soon after his elevation to Cardinal last year, he issued three pastoral letters calling for broad land reform, public housing and school construction programs...
...Statistical studies," he said, "tell us that one-tenth of the Chilean population receives almost half of the national income. This bad distribution of Chile's riches is paid for in malnutrition of the people." Practicing what Silva Henriquez preached about agrarian reform, the Roman Catholic Church in Chile undertook its own land-distribution program, parceling out 13,200 of its own acres in the Andean foothills, and providing financial and technical help to the new proprietors. Cardinal Silva Henriquez has also been the enthusiastic sponsor of Father Pedro Castex, a lively priest in a beret, who lives...
Last week Cardinal Silva Henriquez called upon Chile to speed up the pace of reform. "Social injustice and poverty," he said, "foster Communism. It is urgent to act quickly. We are at the brink. If we do not produce legal and immediate solutions, others can break in and take our place. It is necessary to be Christian with social justice, with charity, with brotherhood. We must not be reactionaries...
...shocked his conservative relatives by setting up workers' councils to share in management decisions, took over the textile operation when his father retired in 1954. Since then he has shocked almost everybody. After winning a seat on the' city council, he pushed tax reform, tried to have Milan's trolley fares doubled to cover deficits. A Christian Democrat who says, "I am a leftist because I am modern," he spurred Milan's own apertura a sinistra by persuading the party to form a coalition with the socialists...