The Ironic Legacy of an Opus Dei Bishop: Native Priests and Andean Catholicism in Postconflict Apurímac, Peru
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September 16, 2019
Abstract, The Ironic Legacy of an Opus Dei Bishop: Native Priests and Andean Catholicism in Postconflict Apurímac, Peru
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The Ironic Legacy of an Opus Dei Bishop: Native Priests and Andean Catholicism in Postconflict Apurímac, Peru
by Christine Lee
Since the end of the civil war, the diocese of Abancay in the south-central Peruvian Andes has produced a clergy made up entirely of men born and raised in the diocese where they now work. Yet, ironically, this diocese was specifically criticized by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for its lack of engagement with local Andean populations. Abancay is a politically and theologically conservative diocese strongly influenced by the Opus Dei bishop who trained this generation of native clergy, but it is also a diocese in the process of forging a new relationship between Andeanness and institutional Catholicism.
The Ironic Legacy of an Opus Dei Bishop: Native Priests and Andean Catholicism in Postconflict Apurímac, Peru
June 28, 2017
Political Report # 1257 To "Afflict the Comfortable"
During his decades as a public figure, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann- Nicaraguan politician, priest, and former president of the United Nations General Assembly- managed to escape much of the international notoriety visited upon his Sandinista comrades. But from the beginning of his political life to his death earlier this month, he was never far from the struggle.
D'Escoto, who died on June 8 from apparent stroke complications, was a lifelong proponent of a radical politics that once seemed to promise restoration for a battered and disoriented international left. He led a tripartite life-as a revolutionary, a priest, and a public servant-during a period of profound change in his home country, when an insurgent egalitarianism swept through popular consciousness to saturate both secular and Catholic worldviews.
Throughout the 1980s, grassroots movements pushed the struggle over the Catholic Church's social mission out of the Vatican and into the glare of the Central American sun.Throughout the 1980s, grassroots movements pushed the struggle over the Catholic Church's social mission out of the Vatican and into the glare of the Central American sun. As poor people's movements in the Global South, particularly Latin America, repeatedly challenged elite power and wealth, some factions of Catholics broke with the Church hierarchy to advance a radically transformed vision of Catholic social doctrine. This reinterpretation of the Church's obligation to the poor went beyond the historic Catholic commitment to charity to advocate involvement in political struggles-including revolutionary ones. Known in Latin America as "liberation theology," this tendency also found some adherents in the North American Maryknoll missionary order, which had long included political activism as part of its ministry.
In the 1960s, after much internal debate, the Vatican seemed to legitimate liberation theology, but by 1985 this emergent radicalism had grown militant enough to rattle Church elites. Pope John Paul II retaliated by stripping four Nicaraguan priests of their holy orders. D'Escoto, a Maryknoll priest and Nicaragua's foreign minister at the time, was one of them.
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November 3, 2016
Book, The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspective (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series)
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The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspective (Critical Currents in Latin American Perspective Series)
by Emelio Betances
by Emelio Betances
Since the 1960s, the Catholic Church has acted as a mediator during social and political change in many Latin American countries, especially the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Although the Catholic clergy was called in during political crises in all five countries, the situation in the Dominican Republic was especially notable because the Church's role as mediator was eventually institutionalized. Because the Dominican state was persistently weak, the Church was able to secure the support of the Balaguer regime (1966–1978) and ensure social and political cohesion and stability. Emelio Betances analyzes the particular circumstances that allowed the Church in the Dominican Republic to accommodate the political and social establishment; the Church offered non-partisan political mediation, rebuilt its ties with the lower echelons of society, and responded to the challenges of the evangelical movement. The author's historical examination of church-state relations in the Dominican Republic leads to important regional comparisons that broaden our understanding of the Catholic Church in the whole of Latin America.
July 19, 2016
Book, "Miguel Pro. Martyrdom, Politics, and Society in Twentieth-Century Mexico by Marisol Lopez-Menendez
Miguel Pro
Martyrdom, Politics, and Society in Twentieth-Century Mexico
November 12, 2015
Film Review, Disappearing into the Distance by Kristi M. Wilson
Film Review: Disappearing into the Distance
Disappearing into the Distance
Two Latin American City Symphonies
by Kristi M. Wilson
Andrea Prates, and Cleisson Vidal Dino Cazzola: A Filmography of Brasília. Brazil, 2012.
Heddy Honigmann Oblivion (El Olvido). The Netherlands, 2008
In Oblivion, the award-winning Dutch-Peruvian filmmaker Heddy Honigmann (Forever, Metal and Melancholy, O Amor Natural) visits her birthplace to record the stories of everyday Peruvians under Alan García’s second presidency (2006–2011). Her camera appears to float or wander at the street level, pausing on occasion to drop in upon the lives of the people it encounters there. Andrea Prates and Cleisson Vidal’s Dino Cazzola is at once a family history, a story of migration, a story of power and national identity, and an homage to filmmaking. Both films recall the Russian director Dziga Vertov’s 1929 classic documentary Man with a Movie Camera in that they are city symphonies, films that produce complex truths about a particular urban space by weaving together images and narrative fragments from the lives of its longtime residents.
by Kristi M. Wilson
Andrea Prates, and Cleisson Vidal Dino Cazzola: A Filmography of Brasília. Brazil, 2012.
Heddy Honigmann Oblivion (El Olvido). The Netherlands, 2008
In Oblivion, the award-winning Dutch-Peruvian filmmaker Heddy Honigmann (Forever, Metal and Melancholy, O Amor Natural) visits her birthplace to record the stories of everyday Peruvians under Alan García’s second presidency (2006–2011). Her camera appears to float or wander at the street level, pausing on occasion to drop in upon the lives of the people it encounters there. Andrea Prates and Cleisson Vidal’s Dino Cazzola is at once a family history, a story of migration, a story of power and national identity, and an homage to filmmaking. Both films recall the Russian director Dziga Vertov’s 1929 classic documentary Man with a Movie Camera in that they are city symphonies, films that produce complex truths about a particular urban space by weaving together images and narrative fragments from the lives of its longtime residents.
November 10, 2015
Book, "The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspective" By Emelio Betances
By Emelio Betances
June 23, 2015
Book, "The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspective" By Emelio Betances
By Emelio Betances
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