Medellín 50 anos: Memória, profecia e esperanças

Abstract

The Second Latin-American Bishops’ Conference, held in Medellin, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It is a historical and theological milestone for the Church, not only for the continent, but alsoas a whole. It not only hosted the Second Vatican Council in Latin America, but it achieved and historicized its intuitions, provoking a true "Copernican revolution" in Latin America. Our work, from the three words of the subtitle, is divided into three moments: first, we will render the memory of the Conference, not as something of the past, but which preserves its vivacity and currentness; subsequently we will present the preferential option for the poor or Church of the poor as the prophetic intuition of Medellin that changes the way the Church thinks of her identity and mission; lastly, we will take the ministry of the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, and his project of a poor Church and for the poor as the great hope and update of Medellin in the current times.