Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would they take a conservative line and retreat from tactics that threatened confrontation with repressive political regimes? Last week the bishops emerged with an 8,000-word final statement that mildly surprised most observers. While hardly radical in tone, it contained a stronger mandate for church involvement in social issues than had been expected...
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...
...Unexpectedly, the bishops gave a vote of confidence to the comunidades de base, or grass-roots base communities, that have sprung up across Latin America since Medellin. Most comunidades number less than 20 Christians, who meet privately and often clandestinely to talk out social and economic problems as well as religious issues. There are as many as 150,000 such communities, most of them in Brazil. Despite some tension between the lay-centered comunidades and the traditional church hierarchy, the bishops acknowledged that "the faith of Christ has flourished" in them...
Mexico could become a major U S supplier−over the long term. Last week President Carter came to an agreement with Mexican President José López Portillo to begin negotiations between the two governments for American purchases of Mexican natural gas o avert social and economic disruptions López Portillo has vowed to follow a go-slow production policy and not permit Mexico's wells to pump more than 2.3 million bbl. of oil and gas a day (up from 1.5 million bbl. now) for the rest of his term, which ends in 1982. Thus...
...Local people commonly speak of the city's Midwestern "openness." Says Hedrick: "I was in North Palm Beach the other day, and, hell, you have to be a second cousin to Jesus Christ if you want to play at the Seminole Golf Club. But the social as well as the economic strata are open to anybody who wants to work in Wichita...