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Ten Years of Change in the Church: Puebla and the Future
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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The Puebla meeting of the Latin American bishops in early 1979 capped a decade of far-reaching and surprising change in the Catholic Church. A new, local-level unit—the “ecclesial base community” or CEB—has given Catholicism a vitality in society it has not known for centuries. At the same time, the Church has achieved an unprecedented integration as an institution nationally and regionally, in Latin America as a whole. It has found itself, through an unexpected historical dynamic, increasingly committed to the cause of the poor in deed as well as word, And it has been thrust into political confrontations with state authority throughout the region with an intensity and scope unmatched since the nineteenth century.
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , August 1979 , pp. 299 - 312
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- Copyright © University of Miami 1979