Puebla, a Church Being Born

by Nevita Riley and Gary MacEoin

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809122790
• ISBN13: 9780809122790
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 136 Pages

Customer Reviews

AT PUEBLA OUR TRUE CHURCH WAS BEING BORN BUT SOON SUFFERED PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION

This report published soon after the hope-inspiring Conference of the Latin American Bishops in the southern Mexican colonial city of Puebla and attended by the brand new Pope John Paul II, is presented by the brilliant and accurate Irish Journalist Gary MacEoin, expert on Latin American Catholicism, with the full gleaming hope of that time that the poor might be allowed into the Church, and the Gospel mandates put into action as described prophetically from the first days of the publics ministry of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The subsequent blockage and discarding of the message of Puebla is therefore unimaginable in this report's joyful rush to publish the good news of Puebla. Nevertheless in the post-JPII Church it is incumbent upon us to re-evaluate and take to heart and into action the message and mission of Puebla, if we are to survive as Church in the Americas. MacEoin explores every aspect of this historic meeting and its conclusions, reinforcing those of Medellin ten years earlier, in which the Church's role following the findings of the Second Vatican Council matured from one of historically supporting powerful economic and colonial interests to one of standing nearly naked and powerless with the poorest people, sharing their lives and their fates, as Archbishop Romero said. Please read this book to know who we are as Church in this modern world. The final chapter is No Turning Back, and even though the full implementation of the message of Medellin and of Puebla might have been delayed temporarily, we cannot turn back, we cannot lose heart, we cannot lose the eschatalogical vision which brings us to walk as one pilgrim people to the Kindgom of God in His justice and compassion and merciful love. Please read this book to restore our vision, to restore sight to the blind and to restore our feet to walking in the way of the Lord. We won't turn back, no more.