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Latin America shows the danger of populism. The U.S. must not follow
We must remember that America is not a president or a government it’s our faith, our family and our community
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Alex Brandon, Associated Press
Late in 2019, my wife and I watched attentively as Chile confronted one of its biggest social crises ever. The government raised metro prices by approximately 50 cents, which sparked massive protests throughout the country. I remember watching the news and talking to my wife’s family in Chile while all of this was going on.
Large buildings were burned down and a state of emergency was established. As a result, a conversation about changing the constitution was opened. The last time it was approved was during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who ousted socialist President Salvador Allende from power. Thirty years later, Chileans participated in an October 2020 referendum to vote if the constitution should be rewritten. Sev
Sts. Paul and Peter Catholic Church in Baie-Saint-Paul, near Quebec City. (CNS photo/Philippe Vaillancourt, Presence)
In a pastoral message released in December, Cardinal Gerald Lacroix of the Archdiocese of Quebec announced a dramatic transformation in how the Catholic Church in the province should understand itself. Faced with declining resources and a faithful but increasingly small cohort of weekly Mass attendees between 2 and 11 percent of the province, according to The Economist in 2016 Cardinal Lacroix called on the church in Quebec not to struggle to hold on to what it has left but to see itself as a mission church moving outward. “We must reorient our pastoral teams toward a more intensely missionary activity, turned toward the people and groups that we join too little,” the cardinal said.
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