Una Iglesia Desaparecida: The End of an Era for the Chilean Catholic Church
Porras, September Sky
This article aims to investigate the changing political alignment of the Chilean Catholic
Church following the fall of the dictatorship in the early 1990’s. The author brings together a
primary source collection of of new articles, photographs, and interviews, as well as a secondary
source collection of sociological surveys and historiography, to interrogate the process and
outcome of this political transition. The article maintains that desires for hierarchical control and
a rejection of past, progressive theology motivated Church leaders to transition the Church away
from community based leadership, to clerical control.
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