This dissertation analyzes priestly formation at the Colegio Pio Latino Americano, a residential college for seminarians from the region studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. The Colegio Pio Latino Americano has contributed to the creation of a common set of intellectual, cultural, social, and spiritual understandings that have profoundly affected the recent (and future) development of the Roman Catholic Church in modern Latin America. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Catholic clerical education was standardized and professionalized; this occurred substantially through the formation of priests in Rome and the reform of Latin American seminaries following the Roman model. The late development of active relationships between Latin America and the papacy and the critical role of the Church in politics make priestly formation especially relevant in examining the Roman Catholic Church in modern Latin America. Maintaining institutional freedom of action and guiding the faithful in the often-contentious political and social atmosphere of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America required politically savvy and spiritually mature priests who were also adept in theology and the practical aspects of ministry This study begins with a consideration of the dual contexts (Latin American and Roman/European) of Latin American clerical formation in Rome. The central chapters of the study analyze the establishment and support of the College by Latin American clergy and laity and the experiences of seminarians during the years they spent far from home. Finally, it demonstrates the specific ways that the College affected the Church in the region by examining the activities of graduates. When they returned to their home dioceses, priests educated in Rome held leadership positions as seminary professors and administrators, diocesan bishops, and parish priests. Roman-educated priests were instrumental in articulating the regional identity of the Catholic Church and in implanting social Catholicism, the predecessor to liberation theology / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_25172 |
| Date | January 2002 |
| Contributors | Edwards, Lisa Marie (Author), Yeager, Gertrude M (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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