Title: Dom Helder Camara, les puissants et les pauvres : pour une histoire de l'Eglise des pauvres dans le Nordeste brésilien, 1955-1985 /
Authors: Marin, Richard.
Publisher: Editions de l'atelier/Editions ouvrières,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Câmara, Hélder,; Catholic Church Brazil Bishops Biography.; Church and social problems Brazil; Church work with the poor Brazil.
Abstract: "A corrective to hagiographies, argues that Dom Helder Câmara's symbolic importance was inflated by critics' demonizing rhetoric and by statements he issued abroad while silenced in Brazil, 1970-77. First, the antiquated structure of the Archdiocese of Recife-Olinda (1964-69), and then the crisis of the priesthood (1970-85), limited the impact of his reforms. Recife was not much different from other dioceses in level of state repression or depth of reform"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.