Church Renewal in Brazil

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The more recent history of Catholicism in Latin America contradicts the image of the Church as the mainstay of tradition, the established order and the implacable enemy of modernism. Many have come to view the involvement of the Church in social and political questions as “progressive” and even “radical.” Thus, the secret Report on the Catholic Church in Brazil commissioned by President Ernesto Geisel in 1974 came to the following conclusion: “The Church is the most active enemy of national security. It supports the use of means which are clearly subversive; it promotes the substitution of the present socio-political and economic structure with a new order — one which in every way is similar to that advocated in Marxist philosophy.”

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