In its biggest base, Catholicism faces a formidable challenge
In Brazil, delegates representing 50,000 church-organized grass-roots communities declared at their annual meeting last year: "Land in the hands of those who don't need it, workers earning a pittance, hunger, infant mortality and illiteracy. This great sin is a social sin, and it is called the capitalist system."
> In Nicaragua, Spanish Missionary Gaspar Garcia Laviana sat inspecting a clutch of automatic rifles last October and told a visitor why he had become a firearms expert with the guerrillas who are fighting the Somoza...
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