Neither the Church was out of the 1968 hurricane!

Neither the Catholic Church was out of the wind of change of 1968. At that unique year it was held the Latin American Episcopal Conference in Medellin, Colombia, that changed the pace of the church in the continent. The Church assumed then a "preferencial option for the poor", that was seen for traditional sectors of the continent elite as an "option for leftists"

In that meeting, the Church released its Liberation Theology, that among other things established the option for "poor people". It was not just a solidarity posture. Since that the year the Catholic church was actively and directly involved in social movements that opposed to the dictatorships (that at that time were present all over Latin America). Since then the Church supported the called "base ecclesiastic communities".

The bottom line of the Conference was: the Church was favorable to an active posture of the poor people in Latin America, demandind always more, from higher wages to social justice as a whole.

Since Medellin, priests and nuns participated in the creation and organization of many of social movements and some of them were also involved with "guerrillas" that were created to fight against the dictatorships.

Despite the opposition of conservative sectors of the Catholic Church, Medellin was a landmark of change. Until 1979, when a more conservative position was adopted, the "Liberation Theology" prevailed for most of bishops, priests, nuns.

It was such a change. But since we were in 1968, what would we expect?