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...present, the most important source of ideology is still the Church. Remember that the other European colonizers never succeeded in imposing Christianity on the population as a whole; they merely cultivated it in their elites. Only the Spanish and the Portuguese conquered for Cross as well as gold. Orthodox Latin American Catholicism has always been profoundly degrading for the masses, especially in an Indian nation like Guatemala, where it is still preached by the descendants of their conquerors...
Luckily for Latin America (and for Christianity), there are nascent movements of revolutionary and reform clergy. Some read Martin Luther King; some, like Camillo Torres, have died fighting with the guerrillas. In Guatemala there is a fairly liberal clergy movement called COSDEGUA (Conference of Guatemalan Priests). As mild as it seems to be, it is being vigorously suppressed. When I was in the capital, eight of its members were suspended...
Most of the radical clergy are probably not doctrinaire on the question of violence. As is stated in a radical position paper presented at the Second General Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) in Medellin, Colombia, "The form of the social revolution varies greatly. There is not just one method.... Everything depends on the objective conditions and the desires of the people. There are peaceful methods and there are violent methods." (P. Comblin, "La Iglessia y el Tercer Mundo," La Nacion, Aug. 9. 1970, p. 8. From this summary, the document appears to be a Marxist analysis, even examining...
...born not far from here in Hailey, Idaho. His name was Seth Morrison, born in Salt Lake in 1895, educated at Andover and Yale before going to the war in 1917 after which he returned to the West to be with his lumber trade and sawmills and remembrances of Latin Poetry and New Haven and Since his Home burned down in town he lived flippantly in a Flop House down the street with his Yale education and his small senilities while the people in the Utah Cafe had Daughters with piano teachers and though he was queer cause he didn...
Radcliffe seniors will also be encouraged to compete for the traditional Commencement parts-formal speeches, one in Latin and one in English, given by members of the baccalaureate class. The Parts symbolize the custom of earlier Harvard Commencements, when seniors defended theses in public before receiving their degrees...