Rendering unto Caesar
Subtitle: the Catholic Church and the state in Latin America
By: Anthony Gill.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Latin America -- History -- 1965-; Church and state -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century.; Church and state -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.; Latin America -- Church history -- 20th century.
Description: For most of its history, the Latin American Catholic Church has been considered a pillar of conservatism. This image changed dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s, when bishops in countries such as Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador publicly denounced repressive dictatorial regimes in their respective countries.

Observers rushed to understand both the causes and consequences of this phenomenon, while unfortunately ignoring the persistence of Catholic support for authoritarianism in Argentina, Honduras, and Uruguay. In Rendering unto Caesar, Anthony Gill offers an answer to the question of why Catholic leaders in some countries came to oppose dictatorial rule but, equally important, why many did not.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-258) and index.