Category: Argentina
Remembering martyred YCS chaplain, Carlos Mugica
Today, on the 50th anniversary of his death on 11 May 1974, we remember the Argentinian priest and JEC/YCS chaplain, Fr Carlos Mugica, shot after mass by an off duty policement from a right-wing terrorist group, the Triple A.
Lucio Gera, theologian of the people – and Pope Francis
This month we celebrate the centenary of the birth on 16 January 1924 of Argentinian theologian, Lucio Gera, a chaplain/theologian of the JOC, who later became a major source of inspiration for Pope Francis when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires.
Centenary of the birth of Blessed Enrique Angelelli
This month marks the centenary of the birth of martyred Argentinian jocist chaplain, bishop, Vatican II Council father, signatory of the Pact of the Catacombs and the Pietralata Message, pioneer of Argentina’s Theology of the People, and martyr, Enrique Angelelli.
Pepe & Amalia Palacio and Enrique Angelelli: Synodality in action
Today, 11 December 2021, marks the 46th anniversary of the abduction by security forces of José Serapio “Pepe” Palacio, an Argentinian JOC leader, later a trade unionist and leader of the Workers Catholic Action and finally the first lay collaborator of the IYCW.
Enrique Angelelli, first martyr of Vatican II
Pope Francis has promulgated a decree recognising the martyrdom of Bishop Enrique Angelelli and his co-workers, French priest, Gabriel Longueville, Franciscan Fr Carlos de Dios Murias and lay pastoral worker, Wenceslao Pedernera.
Sources of Pope Francis’ praxis
Pope Francis’ thought “is profoundly marked by the ‘theology of the People’, an Argentinian version of the theology of liberation,” writes Belgian Benedictine, Dom Armand Veilleux, “of which three representatives were Juan Carlos Scannone, Lucio Gera and Rafael Tello.”
The dynamic role of jocist chaplains in Argentina
Theologian Oscar Campana notes the key role in Vatican II reforms played by Catholic Action chaplains in Argentina, many of whom were YCW chaplains.
