Rebel Priest in the Time of Tyrants
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Rebel Priest in the Time of Tyrants

Mission to Haiti, Ecuador and Chile

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rebel Priest in the Time of Tyrants

Mission to Haiti, Ecuador and Chile

About this book

Claude Lacaille witnessed up close the oppression and poverty in Haiti, Ecuador, and Chile where dictators and predatory imperialists ruled. Like other advocates of Liberation Theology, he saw it as his duty to join the resistance, particularly against Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet. But the dictators were not alone, as they often enjoyed the support of the Vatican, sometimes tacit, but then brazenly open under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. He began writing this book in Chile where thousands shed blood simply because they defended victims of dictatorship, opposed rapacious policies and economic doctrines, consoled the downtrodden, and breathed new hope and courage into a people who desperately needed it. These men and women remain an inspiration for those who still believe in a better world. This is the story of Claude Lacaille's experience from 1965 through 1986 in the slums and squats in the Caribbean and South America and also what it really means to have a preferential option for the poor. His book shows how liberation theology and spirituality enkindled the life and the work of an ordinary Quebec missionary.

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Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. 1 Ad Limina: On the Threshold
  3. 2 The Gateway to the Path
  4. 3 A Baptism of Fire in Haiti
  5. 4 Latin America: The Backyard of the United States
  6. 5 I am the Son of Vatican II
  7. 6 A Year in Transition
  8. 7 The World of the Quichua
  9. 8 Proaño, the “Bishop of the Indians”
  10. 9 Pinochet’s Chile
  11. 10 In La Bandera
  12. 11 A Dictatorship Serving Big Capital
  13. 12 The Dictator Gives Himself a Constitution
  14. 13 A Newsletter for Christians in the Resistance
  15. 14 Demonstrations and Repression
  16. 15 Big Changes in Central America
  17. 16 The Church in Santiago Moves to the Right
  18. 17 The Great Days of National Protests
  19. 18 The Bible, a Powerful Weapon of Liberation
  20. 19 Defending Human Rights in a Repressive System
  21. 20 The Army’s Dirty War Against its People
  22. 21 In the Devil’s Lair
  23. 22 Even Activists Have Limits
  24. 23 The Most Difficult Mission is to the North
  25. 24 Homecoming
  26. Epilogue