The Colombian Episcopacy in the 1960s

This article analyzes the different challenges faced by the Colombian clergy during the 1960s and the way in which it tried to address them. It starts from the central assumption that the Catholic hierarchy in Colombia wanted to ignore the profound changes occurring in Colombian society and opposed...

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Published in:Revista de estudios sociales (Bogotá, Colombia) Colombia), 2009-08 (33), p.79-90
Main Author: Arias Trujillo, Ricardo
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Catholics
Clergy
Colombia
Congresses and Conventions
Hierarchy
Roman Catholicism
Twentieth Century
Vatican
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Summary:This article analyzes the different challenges faced by the Colombian clergy during the 1960s and the way in which it tried to address them. It starts from the central assumption that the Catholic hierarchy in Colombia wanted to ignore the profound changes occurring in Colombian society and opposed the reorientations stemming from the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and the Second Latin American Episcopal Conference (Medellin, 1968). Far from reexamining its traditional positions, the Colombian clergy hardened its intransigent and deep-rooted discourse, and struggled to preserve a series of values and privileges that ever-growing sections of the society deemed anachronistic. In this way, the Colombian clergy, suspicious of any change, delayed its renovation, at least until the 1990s. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0123-885X