After the Second Vatican Council, the Chilean bishops met in a plenary assembly during May 1968. As a result, the Episcopal Conference of Chile developed its first Pastoral Orientations (POs).
José Ignacio Fernández
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The relations between the Chilean Church and the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990) are often characterized as conflictive. After a short period of accommodation and legitimation, the Chilean episcopate started to confront the dictatorship in ...
Stephan Ruderer
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The Emergence of a Transnational Advocacy Network: International Election Monitoring in the Philippines, Chile, Nicaragua, and Mexico [PDF]
In this paper I question the existence of a global civil society, suggesting that what we have witnessed in recent years is the emergence of myriad transnational advocacy networks (TANs).
Santa Cruz, Arturo
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The Catholic Church, Political Institutions, and Electoral Outcomes in Oaxaca, Mexico [PDF]
This study analyzes two competing arguments about the role of the Catholic Church in state politics Oaxaca, Mexico in the 1990s and 2000s. One line of argument claims that progressive Catholic bishops supported and facilitated democratization in this ...
Benton, A. L.
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Lay Patronage and the Development of Ecclesiastical Property in Spanish America: The Case of Buenos Aires, 1700-1900 [PDF]
Este artículo estudia los patronatos laicos en Buenos Aires a lo largo de dos siglos, con el objeto de contribuir al estudio de la formación de la propiedad eclesiástica.
Di Stefano, Roberto Daniel
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Filling the Gaps in Civil Society The Role of the Catholic Church in Latin American Democratization [PDF]
In this paper, we seek to draw lessons about the roles that religious institutions can play in promoting democracy in deeply divided societies by examining the experience of the Catholic Church in Latin America.
Carnes, Matthew, Thiede, John
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A political transition in Chile, problems and prospects on the long road to democracy [PDF]
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Bruneau, Thomas C., Mooney, Mary
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What is hindering progress? The marginalization of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Brazil and Chile [PDF]
The paper draws on the cases of Brazil and Chile to consider the lack of progress towards securing better health outcomes for women in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
Alvarez +28 more
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Opus Dei and its arrival in Australia and New Zealand : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Religious Studies at Massey University [PDF]
Opus Dei, the Catholic Church's first personal prelature, has attracted a great deal of passion and argument in its 60 or 70 years of existence. Very little has been written about Opus Dei in this part of the world, and as far as I am aware, no previous ...
Middelplaats, Marina
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La redacción del primer Código de Derecho Canónico que tuvo la Iglesia latina fue ordenado por el papa san Pío X, en 1904. La tarea codificadora, empero, no fue obra de un grupo cerrado de expertos, sino que tuvo en cuenta el parecer del episcopado, el ...
Carlos Salinas Araneda
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