LATIN AMERICA AND CATHOLIC CHURCH

Latin America and Catholic Church

Latin America and Catholic Church

Introduction

Everyone remembers celebration of Mass by Pope John Paul II in Managua, capital of Nicaragua, on 4 March 1983. On that day, for first time in course of any Papal trip of recent times, the crowd of some 700,000 people - almost the quarter of country's population - got completely beyond control of churchmen organising occasion. (LaPrensa 1983)

First of all, when Pope began his serinon, there were cries of "The Pope, Pope, and long live Christ-King!" shouted by that in crowd supporting Mr. Obando and opposed to regime. ...