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CELAM IV: maneuvering and marking time in Santo Domingo. (Fourth General Conference of Latin American Bishops)

From: The Christian Century  |  Date: 2/17/1993  |  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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