RT Article
T1 Medellín Is “Fantastic”: Drafts of the 1969 Rockefeller Report on the Catholic Church
JF The catholic historical review
VO 101
IS 4
SP 809
OP 834
A1 Keeley, Theresa
LA English
PB The Catholic University of America Press
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1788120078
AB Since the 1970s, both foreign and U.S. opponents of U.S.-Central America policy have cited the 1969 Rockefeller Report on the Americas: The Official Report of a United States Presidential Mission for the Western Hemisphere as the beginning of U.S. government efforts to eradicate liberation theology. During the 1980s, progressive Catholic press accounts in the United States and abroad emphasized the similarities between the Report and President Ronald Reagan’s approach to Central America. But critics’ charges are misplaced. The Report supported the Church’s leftward turn, and Nelson Rockefeller was the reason. Early report drafts and Rockefeller’s comments reveal that he enthusiastically welcomed the Medellín documents. It was family planning that preoccupied Rockefeller, not communist subversion.
K1 Rockefeller Report
K1 Nelson
K1 Rockefeller
K1 Medellín
K1 Liberation Theology
K1 Family Planning
DO 10.1353/cat.2015.0216