Understanding Pope Francis: Argentina, Economic Failure, and the Teología del Pueblo

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It was an interesting take within the context of a complex country.
Thanks for taking the trouble to look a bit into our history
Regardless of how assertive or not this take has been, and that we cannot obviously speak for the Pope,how has it helped you understand? Was it in a positive way,@StudentMI?
As a conversation…whenever you have time.
 
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Regardless of how assertive or not this take has been, and that we cannot obviously speak for the Pope,how has it helped you understand? Was it in a positive way,@StudentMI?
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Well, the part about Peronism was interesting and though we can’t be sure it does seem to influence his take on political and economic matters.

But for me the most revealing part was about the teología del pueblo. If indeed he is influenced by that, and he did seem to source those claims, it goes a long way toward his approach.

Overall it was in a positive way despite the generally critical stance of the article. While I agree with the author that the problem with the teología del pueblo is that the people may not always be correct, I can understand Francis’ perspective as well.
 
He did pretty well when explaining Peronism in the sense that it has gone through different “motions”. Sounded quite fair and not stagnant as many articles are.He could interpret the changes, nuances. That was good.

As far as the Teología del Pueblo, belonging here, one can understand through all that happened how these movements came to be.
How much influence? After all these years and looking back, so much water has gone under the bridge since then…

And yet here we are struggling … as always economically speaking . That was fair also. We were incredibly well positioned, we have natural resources and still… towing and rowing.

I am glad it helped. We really come from a context for good and bad but always forward.
 
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