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Title: How Christian Marxism took root in Brazil
Post by: endicom on October 28, 2018, 02:05:52 am

Acton Institute
Silvio Simonetti
Oct. 26, 2018

1968 was a year of intense change for the world. Anyone who lived it may have thought the world was being engulfed by the waters of revolution.  Across the world, students took to the streets promising to destroy the political system.

Paris was the symbol of that year. Twenty-two years after the liberation of France at the end of World War II, the streets of the French capital looked like a wartime scenario. What had begun as a student protest about dormitory accommodation issues quickly became a generalized movement for social strife. Barricades appeared in the streets and public order collapsed. The sons and daughters of the French bourgeoisie sought to destroy the bourgeois order. What would replace it? No one knew or seemed to care. They just knew it would be something much better.

1968 was also the year in which the modern history of the Catholic Church in Latin America began.

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Title: Re: How Christian Marxism took root in Brazil
Post by: Sanguine on October 28, 2018, 02:40:09 am

"Christian marxism".   **nononono*