"Secret Dialogues" uncovers an unexpected development in modern
Latin American history: the existence of secret talks between
generals and Roman Catholic bishops at the height of Brazil's
military dictatorship. During the brutal term of Emilio Garrastazu
Medici, the Catholic Church became famous for its progressivism.
However, new archival sources demonstrate that the church also
sought to retain its privileges and influence by exploring a
potential alliance with the military. From 1970 to 1974 the secret
Bipartite Commission worked to resolve church-state conflict and to
define the boundary between social activism and subversion. As the
bishops increasingly made defense of human rights their top
pastoral and political goal, the Bipartite became an important
forum of protest against torture and social injustice. Based on
more than 60 interviews and primary sources from three continents,
"Secret Dialogues" is a major addition to the historical narrative
of the most violent yet, ironically, the least studied period of
the Brazilian military regime. Its story is intertwined with the
central themes of the era: revolutionary warfare, repression,
censorship, the fight for democracy, and the conflict between
Catholic notions of social justice and the anticommunist Doctrine
of National Security.
"Secret Dialogues" is the first book of its kind on the
contemporary Catholic Church in any Latin American country, for
most work in this field is devoid of primary documentary research.
Serbin questions key assumptions about church-state conflict such
as the typical conservative-progressive dichotomy and the notion of
church-state rupture during harsh authoritarian periods. "Secret
Dialogues" is written for undergraduate and graduate students,
professional scholars, and the general reader interested in Brazil,
Latin America, military dictatorship, human rights, and the
relationship between religion and politics.
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