Word: vatican
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...Latin America is the church's biggest base. It is also the church's biggest problem area. In many nations, the Roman Catholic Church is the only opposition force to survive state repression, and it is under constant attack. In the decade since CELAM last met, a Vatican expert estimates, at least 1,000 priests and bishops have suffered interrogation, imprisonment, torture or murder. Among those detained has been CELAM'S Brazilian president, Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider...
...church. It's as simple as that," says a Mexican church analyst. Catholicism's future depends greatly on this region's believers, many of them "baptized but not yet sufficiently evangelized," as a bishop in Peru puts it. Religious education is often scant. Says a Vatican specialist, "In Latin America there are 42% of the world's Catholics but only 14% of the priests." Nearly half of those priests are missionaries from overseas. In the past few years, however, priest recruitment has risen in several nations...
...Vatican, liberation theology went too far, as did Medellin, where, it decided, a liberal minority had steamrollered its ideas past an apathetic majority. In 1972 Vatican officials favored the CELAM board's selection of auxiliary Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo from the staunchly conservative Colombian hierarchy as secretary-general, or top staff executive. López Trujillo is a firm, shrewd anti-Marxist who once declared, "I don't believe that in Latin America Marxism has any possibilities. Nor does a capitalism that turns its back on mankind." He is a foe of liberation theology and apparently...
...Trujillo and the top Vatican planner for CELAM, Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, began advance work to avoid Me-dellin-type surprises. The theme would be "evangelization," hardly a radical buzzword, and the site would be Puebla, the most traditional and pious city in Mexico. There would be fewer advisers, and they would be more conservative. Limitations would be placed on the participation of members of religious orders, who are often more militant than diocesan priests...
...kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Outraged liberals charged that a campaign was afoot to "betray" Medellin. Brazil's bishops took the lead in attacking the document; a new, somewhat less conservative version was subsequently prepared. The Brazilians also rebuffed two top officials of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission who made a quiet trip to persuade them to mute political statements at CELAM...