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...group of parents whose children she was preparing for First Communion when she learned of the kidnaping. Since then, she has left her home only three times−to attend the funeral for her husband's police escort, to attend Mass on Easter Sunday, and to visit the Vatican offices of Caritas, the Catholic relief agency that volunteered to act as an intermediary. The rest of the time she has remained in seclusion in the modest yellow brick apartment building in northern Rome where the family has lived for 13 years...
...first time in a decade, the Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) will convene again, this time in Puebla, Mexico, and the encounter promises to be a heated one. Already a 214-page working paper for the Puebla conference, written by Latin Americans but backed by the Vatican to cool the enthusiasms of liberation theology, has touched off angry debate. The bishops of Panama had earlier denounced the working paper, and last week, meeting near São Paulo, 230 bishops of Brazil−by far the largest contingent headed for Puebla−added their own resounding rejection...
...clearly aimed at clerical activists, declares that "priests, monks and nuns should not under normal circumstances participate in political struggle." The theme of the Puebla conference is how to evangelize an increasingly urbanized society, but opponents of the draft document contend that it fails to reflect a key post-Vatican II teaching: evangelization is inseparable from social concern...
...progressive and radical thinkers, among them a Peruvian priest, Gustavo Gutiérrez, who later wrote the influential A Theology of Liberation. But since 1972 the secretary-general of CELAM has been Bogotá's Auxiliary Bishop Alfonso López Trujillo, a staunch young conservative. With the Vatican's encouragement, López Trujillo cleaned out the secretariat, installing priests and laymen with considerably less enthusiasm for revolutionary political change...
...Trujillo and his allies in the hierarchy have the support of the Vatican, including Pope Paul, who fears repression of the church from Latin America's current regimes if Catholics too militantly press the case for a new social and economic order. In El Salvador, for example, two priests were killed and others were threatened with assassination by government-allied right-wing terrorists for espousing redistribution of property. According to Latin American experts in the Vatican, the Pontiff welcomed the zeal for social change that followed Medellin, but now feels that the emphasis has become too political. He wants...