Medelín – Centrality of the poor in the church: clamors and current resistances
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The article deals with the most important characteristic of the Medellin Conference (the centrality of the poor in the Church) and its relevance (present clamor and resistance). It begins by showing how the process of reception of the Second Vatican Council in Latin America comes from the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes and its incipient theology of the “signs of the times” through a process of insertion of the Church in Latin American reality, its commitment with the poor and marginalized, as well as their struggles for liberation. Next, the text deals with the current relevance of such ecclesial dynamism, by indicating some echoes and / or present expressions (old and new ones) of the cries and resistances of the poor and marginalized in our continent -a sign of the times par excellence, to which the Church needs to be always attentive and with which it must viscerally be involved and in the service of which it must place itself with all its strength.
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