Jennifer Scheper Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195367065
- eISBN:
- 9780199867370
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195367065.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
In the twentieth century traditional devotion to religious images, like the Cristo Aparecido was affected by the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and by the socially and politically ...
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In the twentieth century traditional devotion to religious images, like the Cristo Aparecido was affected by the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and by the socially and politically radical liberation theology movement. Liberation theology was initially suspicious of local celebrations of images of Jesus’ passion on the cross, worrying that these devotions inevitably led poor Catholics to resignation and political passivity. The revolutionary, liberationist bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico, don Sergio Méndez Arceo, removed many of the traditional baroque saints’ images from his cathedral. However, he was an admirer of the Cristo Aparecido and a friend of the Cristo’s devotees in Totolapan, Morelos, who were among the most active members of the Christian base community movement in Mexico.Less
In the twentieth century traditional devotion to religious images, like the Cristo Aparecido was affected by the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and by the socially and politically radical liberation theology movement. Liberation theology was initially suspicious of local celebrations of images of Jesus’ passion on the cross, worrying that these devotions inevitably led poor Catholics to resignation and political passivity. The revolutionary, liberationist bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico, don Sergio Méndez Arceo, removed many of the traditional baroque saints’ images from his cathedral. However, he was an admirer of the Cristo Aparecido and a friend of the Cristo’s devotees in Totolapan, Morelos, who were among the most active members of the Christian base community movement in Mexico.
Peter M. Sánchez
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061191
- eISBN:
- 9780813051482
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061191.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Chapter 3 examines the crucial period of political awakening in Rodríguez’s life, an awakening experienced by many other priests and nuns in El Salvador. While serving as parish priest in Tecoluca, ...
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Chapter 3 examines the crucial period of political awakening in Rodríguez’s life, an awakening experienced by many other priests and nuns in El Salvador. While serving as parish priest in Tecoluca, Rodríguez participated in the First Week of Pastoral Reflection (1970) that brought together priests, nuns, and lay workers in El Salvador to consider how to apply the conclusions of Vatican II and the Medellin Conference to the pastoral work in the country. At this meeting, the participants decided that the Salvadoran church should embrace the preferential option for the poor, train lay leaders, and build Christian base communities. Consequently, Rodríguez began to make changes in his parish, engaging a strategy of social mobilization that put him in direct conflict with the local landowners and with his bishop. Nevertheless, he and the other priest of the parish, Padre Rafael Barahona, continued to promote Christian base communities and organized the poor. Rodríguez also began teaching classes at a peasant training center in the nearby diocese of Santiago de Maria. The most important general themes in this chapter are the importance of Rodríguez’s conversion and the early stages of his leadership in the development of the popular movement in El Salvador.Less
Chapter 3 examines the crucial period of political awakening in Rodríguez’s life, an awakening experienced by many other priests and nuns in El Salvador. While serving as parish priest in Tecoluca, Rodríguez participated in the First Week of Pastoral Reflection (1970) that brought together priests, nuns, and lay workers in El Salvador to consider how to apply the conclusions of Vatican II and the Medellin Conference to the pastoral work in the country. At this meeting, the participants decided that the Salvadoran church should embrace the preferential option for the poor, train lay leaders, and build Christian base communities. Consequently, Rodríguez began to make changes in his parish, engaging a strategy of social mobilization that put him in direct conflict with the local landowners and with his bishop. Nevertheless, he and the other priest of the parish, Padre Rafael Barahona, continued to promote Christian base communities and organized the poor. Rodríguez also began teaching classes at a peasant training center in the nearby diocese of Santiago de Maria. The most important general themes in this chapter are the importance of Rodríguez’s conversion and the early stages of his leadership in the development of the popular movement in El Salvador.
