The Politics And The Catholic Church On Latin Americas

THE POLITICS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON LATIN AMERICAS

I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON LATIN AMERICA
III. THE POLITICS ON LATIN AMERICA
IV. RELATION
V. CONCLUSION

THE POLITICS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON LATIN AMERICAS

I. INTRODUCTION

When I come to the United States, I learn that the people can do, say and decide what they want in their sacred exercise of democracy, Ilearn that in a true democracy the State can’t decide by the people showing their religion, because the Constitution is here for defend the freedom and the human rights. I see the true pastoral work from the church priest here in the United States, and I can compare this same work with priest works on the Latin American Countries, there aren’t pastoral work, but we can see real work of the church,and is to maintain to the population resigned with their poverty and inequity. The Catholic Church demonize the social work like the communism and defend the current system like this was good. I think there are defending the corrupt system and they are defending their privileges with the States. On this research I will tray to provide some evidence of this situation.

II. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ONLATIN AMERICA

The Christian era began in the New World in 1492. The Spanish introduced a different moral code, baptism, the Mass, new concepts of good and evil, the idea of Heaven and Hell, the Virgin and saints, a new constitution of the family and the concept of the crucified Christ. The arrival of the Church in the New World terminated human sacrifice and cannibalism. Christian conceptssuffused native art, Indians were forced to occupy a secondary position in the social structure and eventually became servants of the Spanish king and members of the Church’s “flock.”
The Jesuit Order was founded in 1540 and came to Spanish America during the term of Thomas de Souza as governor between 1549 and 1553. At that time the Franciscan and Dominican monks were already established in the NewWorld, but these orders were not destined to have the significant impact that the Company of Jesus or the Jesuit Order was to have on the indigenous peoples of Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Haiti. Through their successes with the Indians taken into their care and the resulting conflicts, the Jesuits were finally expelled from South America in 1767.Before the expulsion of the Jesuits, many of them were beginning to take a “benevolent attitude toward the ideas of separation and independence from Spain, which began to be bruited about in the eighteenth century. The interests of the order began to coincide “with those of the regional burgeois that considered its rise in the economic scale as handicapped by Spanish monopolistic practices and by theexcessive, French style centralization that the Bourbon dynasty was imposing.”
The expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 was part of a whole pattern of administrative reform both foreign and domestic under the Bourbons. As an official explanation, the monarchy cited the need to “bring local Jesuit power to an end and assert royal power in their stead.” This explanation was related to the Bourbon attackupon the Jesuit society in Europe and the result of Enlightenment ideas, religious nationalism and resistance to papal authority.
Some of the Bourbon reforms in the New World rang somewhat hollow. In Ecuador, for example, the expulsion of the Jesuits was linked to the abolition of slavery. This affected only a small minority of Negroes. The Indians were never technically slaves and thereforecould not be freed.
Unfortunately for the native peoples under the Jesuits’ care, the theocracy actually may have paved the way for authoritarian dictatorship. The expulsion deprived the colonies of their best teachers and missionaries and furthermore left the colonies in a desloyal mood. The Jesuits tended to overprotect their communities and when they were expelled the missions could not govern...