scholarly journals On the Touch-Event

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
Valentina Napolitano
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Religious Congregation ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
Rome I ◽  
Catholic Liturgy

This article addresses the ‘touch-event’ as a mediated affective encounter that pivots around a tension between intimacy and distance, seduction and sovereignty, investment and withdrawal. Through a rereading of the Pauline event of conversion to Christianity, it argues that an analysis of the evolving significance of touch-events for Catholic liturgy and a religious congregation shows the theopolitical as always already constituted within an economy of enfleshed virtues. Focusing on contemporary examples of touch-events from the life of Francis, the first pope from the Americas, as well as from fieldwork among a group of female Latin American Catholic migrants in Rome, I argue for a closer examination of touch-events in order to grasp some of their theopolitical, radical, emancipatory, and, in some contexts, subjugating effects.

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.

scholarly journals Authentic subjectivity and social transformation

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Will ◽  
The Common ◽  
American Catholic

Holiness in the Christian tradition has often been understood in a way that devalues embodiment and practical engagement with the world of one’s time. The latter understanding, for example, led to Marx’s critique and repudiation of Christianity. Both interpretations of holiness can be understood as mistaken efforts to express the dynamism for authenticity in contextualised human subjectivity. Vatican 2 opposed both views by addressing itself to all people of good will, declaring that everyone was called to holiness, and that authentic Christian identity involved solidarity with the world of one’s time, especially those who are poor. Vatican 2, therefore, provided an authoritative faith foundation for holiness expressed through social commitment and for viewing social commitment on the part of people of good will in whatever state of life as a form of holiness. This vision was also the conviction of leading spirituality writers of the period, like Thomas Merton, and inspired liberation theologians and the Latin American Catholic bishops at their conference in Medellín a few years after the Council. The argument of this article is that the emergence and development of a non-dualist Christian spirituality is grounded methodologically in the correct appropriation of the common innate dynamism for authenticity in concrete human persons and lived spiritual experiences consistent with and capable of enhancing this dynamism.

The Seamy Side of Charity Revisited: American Catholic Contributions to Renewal in the Latin-American Church

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Stephen Judd
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
National Character ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Missionary Movement ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
American Catholic

The article attempts to examine the contemporary Catholic missionary movement in Latin America in light of a new reading of Ivan Illich's controversial article, “The Seamy Side of Charity,” written in 1967. Contributions by the American missioner to the renewal of the Latin-American church and the raising of missionary consciousness are highlighted. These contributions stem from particular commitments to the poor in the peripheral areas of Latin America, and reveal aspects of the American national character in overseas cross-cultural mission.

Liberation Theology and Christian Radicalism in Contemporary Latin America

1979 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Dodson
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
National Politics ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
Marginal Groups ◽  
American Catholic

For the past decade and a half, Latin American Catholicism has been a focal point of extraordinary religious change and political activism. Although the first visible signs of religious renewal in the traditionally conservative Latin American church did not appear until the early 1960s, a mere decade later, in 1972, Christians for Socialism had held an international meeting of radical Christians in Santiago, Chile. Today, Latin American bishops and Christian base communities throughout the continent are deeply involved in the struggle to preserve human rights against the encroachments of authoritarian regimes. One of the most controversial aspects of the changing Latin American church has been the emergence of organized movements of Christian radicals who sought to use religion as a base from which to transform society through political action. Sizeable priest movements of the left appeared in such countries as Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru, where they had a notable impact on national politics. Acting from the premise that Christian faith must be linked to social action to be meaningful, radicalized Christians joined a dialogue with Marxism, denounced social injustices, provided leadership to politically marginal groups and struggled to change the very nature of the Latin American Catholic Church. The rationale and justification of such action was provided in the collection of writings known as the theology of liberation.

scholarly journals The Creation of a Latin American Catholic Church: Vatican Authority and Political Imagination, 1854–1899

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-336
Author(s):  
FRANCISCO JAVIER RAMÓN SOLANS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
American Catholic Church ◽  
Insight Into

The principal aim of this article is to analyse the rise of a Latin American Catholic identity during the mid- to late nineteenth century. It examines the institutionalisation of this collective project via the foundation of the Latin American College in Rome in 1858 and the initiatives that led to the Latin American Plenary Council in 1899. This article also explores how this collective religious identity was imagined and how its limits were drawn. In doing so a new insight into how religions contributed to the imagining and defining of geographical spaces is offered.

Catholic Bishops and Human Rights in Latin America

Worldview ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Agostino Bono
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Intensive Therapy ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Political Prisoners ◽  
The Political ◽  
Normal Functions ◽  
Medical Office ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
The Church ◽  
Catholic Bishops

The church will have to inculcate in the armed forces that, besides their specific and normal functions, they have a mission to guarantee the political liberties of citizens instead of constructing obstacles. -Latin American Catholic Bishops Conference Medellin, Colombia, September, 1968While Juan Felix. Bogado was attending patients in his shantytown medical office outside Asuncion, Paraguay, last July 19, police broke in and hustled away the thirty-two-year-old doctor, claiming he was a subversive. As most Paraguayan political prisoners, Bogado was subjected to “intensive therapy,” the local euphemism for torture.“They tried to get him to confess he was a Communist and threatened to torture me before his eyes,” says his wife, who at the time was four months pregnant.

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