CELAM IV: maneuvering and marking time in Santo Domingo. (Fourth General Conference of Latin American Bishops)
From: The Christian Century
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Date: 2/17/1993
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Author: Peerman, Dean
THE STORY of the Fourth General Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM IV) and the drafting of its final document, intended as a guide for the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America in the decade ahead, is a story of multiple metamorphoses and diminishing returns--returns diminished further when the document was "finally finalized" in Rome at year's end. It is also the story of a contentious and sometimes chaotic ideological tussle, both onstage and offstage, between ...
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