This paper analyzes the transnational relationship between European Catholic clerics and the Brazilian working class during the military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on "worker priests (padres operarios/curas rojos)," who were part of an international movement of priests who worked in factories and ministered to working-class communities. In Brazil, worker-priests created ecclesiastical communities on the industrial outskirts of Sao Paulo and in Santos, a port region of Sao Paulo state. They were severely persecuted by the military regime.
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Thursday, March 20
Transnational Catholic Labor Activism: European Worker-Priests in Brazil
Time:
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Presenter:
Larissa R Correa
Location:
Cohon University Center- Pake Room, CMU
Sponsored by:
Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with Carnegie Mellon Department of History