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Article: Santo Domingo and Beyond.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 27, 1994
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Both during and after the Fourth General Conference of Latin American Bishops in Santo Domingo in October 1992, descriptions of what had transpired ranged from "a lost opportunity" to "failure."
Every day, news reports described fresh setbacks to the great heritage of the earlier conferences at Medellin (1968) and Puebla (1979). Through most of the conference, the process itself was abrogated: Agreed-upon procedures were arbitrarily subverted and the wishes of the majority negated by roughshod measures of an ultraconservative minority speaking with the not-so-hidden authority of Rome.
In the last days of the conference, the subversive tactics moved ...