From Medellín to Puebla: Notes for Reflection

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Renato Poblete
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Third ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
The Church

Ten years ago the Latin American Catholic Bishops held their Second General Conference in Medellín, Colombia. The conference had a great influence not only within the Catholic Church, but also on the formation of socioeconomic and political issues in Latin American countries. At the time of this writing, we are in the midst of preparations for the Third General Conference taking place in Puebla, Mexico, in October 1978. Therefore, this seems a good opportunity to reflect on the general processes of change in the Church leading to Puebla and their implications for the future.

The Catholic Church at Puebla

Worldview ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Renato Poblete
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Human Life ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The Third General Assembly of the Latin American Episcopate took place last February in the Mexican city of Puebla. Without doubt it will make a profound impact upon the evangelizing action of the Church in Latin America. The documents produced at Puebla, like those produced in Medellin ten years earlier, will give rise to reflections that will find their way into the diverse pastoral plans of each nation.Neither Medellin nor Puebla can be considered isolated phenomenon. On the contrary, each should be seen as fruits of a maturing process in which Christian people, together with their pastors, express both the depths of their anguish and their high hopes and visions. That vision encompasses raising people from subhuman situations to a fuller experience of human life. Such experience should be expected to bring people together in brotherly love and lead naturally to a greater openness to God.

Clericals, Anticlericals and the Women's Movement in France under the Third Republic

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. McMillan
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
French Politics ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Third ◽  
Modern France ◽  
The Family ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
The Church

Most historians of modern France would agree that the quarrel between clericals and anticlericals was one of the most significant political issues in French politics between 1870 and 1914, especially in the period before the passing of the law which separated Church and State in 1905. The charges brought against the Catholic Church by the anticlericals were many, but until recently few students of nineteenth-century France have commented on the fact that one of their most serious allegations was that the Church oppressed women. Perhaps the most celebrated formulation of this theory came from the pen of the historian Michelet who, in a virulent polemic entitled Priests, women and the family, bitterly attacked the powers which priests were reputed to exercise over the female mind through the institution of the confessional, to the great detriment of marital life and family unity.

scholarly journals O contexto ecumênico de Medellín e o posicionamento católico sobre a unidade cristã na América Latina

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Fundamental Function ◽  
Church Mission ◽  
America Latina ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
The Church ◽  
Pastoral Action ◽  
The Catholic Church

As Conclusões da Conferência de Medellín é o primeiro documento do episcopado católico latino-americano que insere o ecumenismo no agir pastoral da Igreja Católica no continente. Não dedica uma seção especial ao tema, mas o apresenta como um elemento transversal nas diversas temáticas abordadas. A Conferência foi, em si mesma, uma significativa experiência ecumênica pela presença dos representantes das Igrejas e a prática da hospitalidade eucarística na celebração de encerramento. Medellín foi uma real recepção das orientações conciliares sobre o aggiornamento da Igreja, para o qual o ecumenismo tem uma função fundamental em nossos tempos.Palavras chave: Medellín. Igreja. Missão. Ecumenismo.Abstract: The Conclusions of the Medellin Conference is the first document of the Latin American Catholic bishops who enter ecumenism in the pastoral action of the Catholic Church on the continent. It does not dedicate a special section to the theme, but it presents it as a transversal element in the various thematic topics covered. The conference was, in itself, a significant ecumenical experience for the presence of the representatives of the churches and the practice of Eucharistic Hospitality in the celebration of closure. Medellin was a real reception of the conciliation guidelines on the aggiornamento of the church, for which Ecumenism has a fundamental function in our times.Keywords: Medellín. Church. Mission. Ecumenism

“Overcoming the Divisiveness of Babel”: The Languages of Catholicity

Horizons ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-342
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
Patient Understanding ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church ◽  
The Church

AbstractContemporary issues in the American Catholic Church can sound like a modern-day confusion of tongues making communication impossible. Furthermore, the traditional marks of the Church have supported the notion that dissent and controversy are to be discouraged. This article examines catholicity and shows that its definitions and uses in history have tied it to uniformity when its essential characteristic may well be the celebration of pluralism. Catholicity is placed in the context of modern mission theory in such a way that current challenges can be interpreted as so many new languages which require patient understanding.

Lamennais

1947 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waldemar Gurian
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Early Church ◽  
The Third ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Papal Infallibility ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The history of the Catholic Church includes men who, after brilliant services to the Church, died outside her fold. Best known among them is Tertullian, the apologetic writer of the Early Church; less known is Ochino, the third vicar-general of the Capuchins, whose flight to Calvin's Geneva almost destroyed his order. In the nineteenth century there were two famous representatives of this group. Johann von Doellinger refused, when more than seventy years old, to accept the decision of the Vatican Council about papal infallibility. He passed away in 1890 unreconciled, though he had been distinguished for years as the outstanding German Catholic theologian. Félicité de la Mennais was celebrated as the new Pascal and Bossuet of his time before he became the modern Tertullian by breaking with the Church because Pope Gregory XVI rejected his views on the relations between the Church and die world. As he lay deathly ill, his niece, “Madame de Kertanguy asked him: ‘Féli, do you want a priest? Surely, you want a priest?’ Lamennais answered: ‘No.’ The niece repeated: ‘I beg of you.’ But he said with a stronger voice: ‘No, no, no.

scholarly journals PRAISE OF THE CONVERT: BELIEVE AND BELONG FROM THE CATHOLICITY OF LATIN AMERICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-339
Author(s):  
Felipe Gaytán Alcalá
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

Latin America was considered for many years the main bastion of Catholicism in the world by the number of parishioners and the influence of the church in the social and political life of the región, but in recent times there has been a decrease in the catholicity index. This paper explores three variables that have modified the identity of Catholicism in Latin American countries. The first one refers to the conversion processes that have expanded the presence of Christian denominations, by analyzing the reasons that revolve around the sense of belonging that these communities offer and that prop up their expansion and growth. The second variable accounts for those Catholics who still belong to the Catholic Church but who in their practices and beliefs have incorporated other magical or esoteric scheme in the form of religious syncretisms, modifying their sense of being Catholics in the world. The third factor has a political reference and has to do with the concept of laicism, a concept that sets its objective, not only in the separation of the State from the Church, but for historical reasons in catholicity restraint in the public space which has led to the confinement of the Catholic to the private, leaving other religious groups to occupy that space.

scholarly journals Study of the Migratory Return: Analysis to the Condition of the Returned Migrant in the Educational and Labor Reintegration and the Entrepreneurship as an Area of Opportunity

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Iris E. Betanzos
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
The Third ◽  
Evolution And Development ◽  
Theoretical Line ◽  
Indispensable Tool ◽  
Latin American Countries

Studies on the educational and labor reintegration of migrants returned to Latin American countries have gained importance due to the economic and social implications of rehabilitation. In this article, the return of the migrant was considered part of the migration process. An exploratory research of publications in different international journals was carried out; when consulting the referenced articles, it was identified that at the time of return the migrant presents and perceives a moral, social, educational and work imbalance. From the deficiencies found in the theoretical lines studied - Educational reinsertion, Labor reintegration - the third theoretical line was included the importance of relating the concept of entrepreneurship as an area of opportunity for returned migrants. The results of the analysis of the studies and theoretical frameworks of international migration, showed great similarities of the phenomenon in different geographical spaces, being an indispensable tool to understand their different forms, evolution and development both in the countries of origin and destination.

John F. O. Fernandez: Enlightened Lay Catholic Reformer, 1815–1820

1981 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-129
Author(s):  
Patrick W. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church ◽  
The Church

The American republican form of government and the effects of the Enlightenment upon the European Catholic church provided fertile ground for theological reflection and ecclesiastical adaptation in early nineteenth-century American Catholicism. A number of immigrant Catholic laymen were influenced by their previous European Catholic experiences and by the American enthusiasm for republicanism to reform their understanding of the laity's role in the American Catholic church and to adapt ecclesiastical structures to American political institutions. In light of these experiences, some of these laymen began to reflect upon the Christian Scriptures and tradition, and to formulate a democratic conception of the layman's role within the church.

The Church Ascendant, 1831–1967

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-40
Author(s):  
Tom O’Donoghue ◽  
Judith Harford
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
School System ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Great Famine ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Church

In the latter half of the eighteenth and early decades of the nineteenth century the priests’ leadership role in Ireland increased, aided by the relaxation of the Penal Laws and the eventual granting of Catholic Emancipation throughout the United Kingdom in 1829. Concurrently, a new generation of reforming bishops shook off the approach of caution of their predecessors towards government and became increasingly assertive about Catholic interests, including in education. That assertiveness is central in the considerations of this chapter. Developments in relation to the role of the Catholic Church (the Church) in Irish society from the decades prior to the Great Famine of 1845–48 are outlined. Relations between the Church and the State on education from the establishment of the Irish National School System in 1831 to the advent of national independence in 1922 are then examined. In the third section the activity of ‘the triumphalist Church in Ireland’ for the period from 1922 to the introduction of ‘free second-level education’ in 1967 is detailed.

Concentration and Dynamics of the Brazilian Agriculture

2011 ◽  
pp. 6-29
Author(s):  
Fernando Garagorry ◽  
Homero Filho
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Distance Measures ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Substantial Portion ◽  
Spatial Concentration ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Latin American Countries

This chapter examines the measurement of motion in agriculture. Not only in Brazil, but in several Latin-American countries, important changes have been observed in the geographical distribution of the agricultural activity. They may take different forms, such as occupation of new areas or reallocation of particular products to areas that were already under some form of agriculture. Besides, in any year, for a given level of geographical subdivision, the distribution of a product shows spatial concentration; but the places which concentrate a substantial portion of the total production may change from year to year, and different subsets of the total territory occupied by a product may move at different speeds. Three distance measures will be introduced in order to assess the motion of individual products; two of them correspond to mathematical concepts, while the third one gives the terrestrial distance between national centers of gravity of the products.

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