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Article: Camara's preference was for the poor.(Dom Helder Pessoa Camara)(Obituary)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 10, 1999
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An exuberant, visionary bishop who fought oppression as an `insult to creation'
Dom Helder Pessoa Camara, retired archbishop of Recife and Olinda in the parched and impoverished Northeast of Brazil, a brilliant thinker and one of the Catholic church's most inspired and charismatic leaders of the 20th century, died Aug. 27 at his modest home in Olinda. He was 90.
Under his moral leadership the Catholic church in Latin America moved from its traditional support of the wealthy landowners and business elite to a preferential option for the poor.
When the Second Vatican Council assembled in Rome in 1962 Dom Helder participated as an auxiliary bishop ...
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