Category: Brazil

Dom Tavora, a Brazilian ‘bishop of the workers’
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the premature death of another remarkable Cardijn bishop, José Vicente Tavora, who liked to consider himself as and in fact became known as a “bishop of the workers.”

The surveillance of the Brazilian JOC during the 1970s
While writing my previous posts about Bishop Angelelli and the JOCI, I stumbled across another document from Brazil that illustrates very well the climate of mistrust against the JOC during the 1970s.

