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- Title
Encountering social change at a time of rapid radicalization of the national Church: The Missionary Oblate Sisters in Brazil.
- Authors
BRUNO-JOFRÉ, Rosa
- Abstract
This paper offers a micro-history of the abrupt ending of the pastoral work of the Missionary Oblate Sisters, members of a missionary group from St Boniface, Manitoba, who went to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1962. The Sisters' experience is contextualized at the intersection of the social and political configuration characterizing the global 1960s and the efforts of the Holy See and the hierarchy of the North American Catholic Church to secure the Church's place and influence. It is argued that the training at the Center for Intercultural Formation in Petrópolis (founded by I. Illich with support from H. Câmara), the field experience in Brazil, the theological ideas of H. Câmara and P. E. Arns, the coup d'état that took place during their time in Brazil, along with related repression and resistance, put the Sisters in touch with a new kind of social commitment and a new way of thinking about the pastoral work. However, there was a gap between them and the administration of the congregation where residual elements--old way of doing things--still held weight.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CHRISTIANITY &; culture; PAPACY; CATHOLIC Church; THEOLOGY
- Publication
Historical Studies, 2019, Vol 85, p57
- ISSN
1193-1981
- Publication type
Article