1968-1988 political nicaraguan liberation

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In Pursuit of the Kingdom: Writings 1968-1988

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Pedro Casaldaliga

Orbis Books, 1990

BRILLIANT BISHOP, PRICELESS PRIEST, IMPROBABLE IMPOVERISHED, CELIBATE CELEBRANT, CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC
Please read this excellent collection of twenty years of Bishop Casaldaliga's writing and praying and solidarity with the poor up to the ultimate consequences, including cold water cast from an impenetrably uncomprehending new Rome. The Good Bishop heard Pope Paul's call to action in Populorum Progressio and put those marching orders to work. Twenty years later he happily paid the cost as a ...

Mystic of liberation: A portrait of Pedro Casaldaliga

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Teófilo Cabestrero

Orbis Books, 1981

BRIEFLY THE BEST EXPRESSION OF OUR CHURCH UP TO THE EIGHTIES
This report of Cabestrero's interviews with the good Bishop was first published in the seventies in Spanish and then published by the excellent and courageous and prophetic Catholic Printing House Orbis Books in 1981. Please pursue subsequent events in the life of this humble, holy and unjustly persecuted Bishop in the Orbis collection of his writings entitled In Pursuit of the Kingdom. This ...

Political Holiness (Theology and Liberation Series)

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Pedro Casaldaliga, Jose Maria Vigil

Orbis Books, 1994

Political Holiness
"Political Holiness", (subtitled, "A Spirituality of Liberation")by Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga of Brazil and José-María Vigil gives readers an excellent understanding of the spirituality of Latin American liberation theology. After discussing what they mean by spirit and spirituality, in part one the authors describe the characteristics of a basic, human ethical-political spirituality that ...

Prophets in Combat: The Nicaraguan Journal of Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga

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Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga

Meyer Stone Books, 1987

MAY WE RECOGNIZE IN THIS PROFOUND PRAYER JOURNAL OF HIS HOLY PILGRIMAGE TO NICARAGUA IN THE 80'S AN INFINITY OF STARS (NOT 5)?!!
Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga, a Claretian missionary named Bishop of Sao Felix do Araguaia in Brazil in 1971, ever writes with a keen and open and true perception, and a humble, brilliant and deeply compassionate humor, here in the midst of Reagan/Bush's imperialist warfare against our Catholic Church, as in all of his writings. Please also read his In Pursuit of the Kingdom: Writings 1968-1988, I ...

Cantares De La Entera Libertad: Antologia Para La Nueva Nicaragua

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Pedro Casaldaliga

IHCA-CAV-CEPA, 1984

AT TIMES ENORMOUS DIAMONDS OF OLD EMERGE FROM THE HEART OF THE MIGHTY AMAZON
Sometimes you can even find the out-of-print encyclical by Pope Paul VI POPULORUM PROGRESSIO which inspired a few continents to Catholic action, before the cold water of the mid-eighties and later. One of these wonderful out-of-print volumes is the present poetry collection by the saintly Brazilian Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga dedicated to the New Nicaragua in the mid-Eighties's rush of hope and ...

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Nicaraguan Cooking
Theory in the Practice of the Nicaraguan Revolution (Research in ...
The Rise and Fall of the Nicaraguan Revolution (New International, No ...
Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution
Nicaraguan Peasant Poetry from Solentiname

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