South Texas Catholic (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 18, 1983 Page: 1 of 16
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John Paul ends difficult ‘
By Nancy rrazicr
NC News Service_
Perhaps more than with any of his 16
previous foreign trip.s, the results of
Pope John Paul 11 * s ‘‘lenten
pilgrimage” to Central America and the
Caribbean may not be clear for months
or even years.
Some effects of the papal visit March
2-9 to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama,
Related photos, page 15
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Belize and Haiti were immediately ob-
vious*
— In El Salvador. President Alvaro
Magana announced that the govern-
ment would hold elections before the
end of 19fl3. Earlier, the elections had
been 1 for March 1984.
— ,it\ President-for-life Jean-
Claudk iJm alter renounced his veto
power, contained in an I860 concordat
between Haiti and the Holy See, over
papal appointments of bishops in that
count rv
— In Nicaragua, to the pope’s
dismay, church-state tensions rose to a
fever pitch at a Mass in Managua,
where supporters of the Marxist-
influenced Sandinista government
engaged in a shouting match with the
pope. The ensuing controversy over the
Mass is likely to cause even greater divi-
sions between church and state in the
near future.
— In Guatemala, where fighting bet-
ween government forces and guerrillas
have taken a large toll in recent years,
the battles stopped briefly in honor of
the papal visit.
But the response to the wider issues
dealt with in Pope John Paul's 40
speeches — his calls for an end to
violence, for social justice, lor respect
for human dignity and life, for fidelity to
ihurch dot trine and the rejection of
ideological misuse of the Gospel — may
be a long time emerging.
A huge political billboard with the
letter* “SLN” completing a legend
provide* a backdrop a* Pope John
Pope John Paul summed up his hopes
for the religious life of both Central and
South America in his March 9 address
to representatives of the entire Latin
An erican hierarchy, meeting in Port-
au-Prince, Haiti.
He outlined a plan for “not the rc-
ev mgelization but a new evangelization
of Latin America, new in its ardor, in its
methods, in its expression.”
The “fundamental suppositions” of
such a program, the pope said, would
include a growth in vocations and ap-
propriate formation of priests in
spiritual, doctrinal and pastoral matters,
greater collaboration of the laity in the
work of evangelization, and safeguar-
ding of the integrity of the orientation
for the Latin American church approved
Paul 11 arrive* for an evening Matt in
Managua, Nicaragua. (NC Photo
from Wide World)
by the region’s bishops four years ago in
Puebla, Mexico.
But the pope's words throughout the
trip made dear that the church in Latin
America could not ignore social
realities.
The Latin American people “in re
cent years have certainly known notable
material progress and are beginning to
offer to the world the results of their ef-
forts in many areas of civilization,” he
said.
“But these people also know — and
this is a radical contradiction — im-
mense areas of poverty, illiteracy,
sickness, alienation,” he added. “Its
roots arc encountered in inherent in-
justices, exploitation of one by the other,
a serious lack of equality in the distribu-
tion of the riches and goods of society.”
In the opening talk of the trip, on his
arrival in San Jose, Costa Rica, Pope
John Paul promised to confront the
region’s most burning issues — and he
followed through on the promise.
To Indians in Guatemala, threatened
by what the nation's bishops have called
a policy of ‘genocide" on the part of the
government of President Efrain Rios
Montt, the pope declared, “No one for
any reason may scorn your existence,
because God forbids us to kill and com-
mands us to love one another as
brothers.”
To the people of El Salvador where,
according to church statistics, civil war
has led to the death of more than 32,000
non-combatants in the past three years,
he outlined guidelines for a dialogue
which could lead to peace
“The dialogue asked for by the
church is not a tactical truce to fortify
positions as part of a plan to continue
the fighting,” he said. “Instead, it is a
sincere effort to answer, with the search
for agreements, the anguish, the pain,
the weariness, the fatigue of so many
who long for peace.”
In Washington, D.C., it was after the
papal statements that the Reagan ad-
ministration, a major actor in the
Salvadoran drama, first began to speak
of dialogue and negotiation with the in-
surgents there.
In an address from San Jo* to the
youth of Central America, Pope John
Paul said that the young must “create a
better world than that of your
ancestors” because if they do not, “the
blood will continue to run, and tomor-
row tears will give witness to the sorrow
of your children.”
Perhaps his strongest human rights
statement of the trip came not in Central
America, however, but in Haiti, the
final stop of his 18,000-mile journey.
He criticized “divisions, injustices,
(See PILGRIMAGE, pg. 15)
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