Justice vs Vatican: while the Vatican hammers out its rightwing and authoritarian line, Brazil's 'red bishops' continue to plough a quite different furrow. Jan Rocha reports.(Social Justice)

From: New Internationalist | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: Rocha, Jan | Copyright information

DURING the worst years of Brazil's military dictatorship--from 1968 to 1978--over 120 bishops, priests and nuns and nearly 300 Catholic layworkers were arrested. Many were tortured. Seven clerics were murdered. Thirty bishops suffered death threats, accusations, kidnappings, or physical violence. Churches and parochial houses were raided. Church newspapers and radio stations were closed down or censored.

Unlike many of their Latin American counterparts, Brazil's Catholi...

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