Bracero-Priests: The Vatican's Response to Mexican Migration, 1942–1964
This article examines Operation Migratory Labor (O.M.L.), a cross-border collaboration between the Mexican and United States Catholic hierarchies, guided by Vatican authorities, from 1953–1964, which brought Mexican priests into the United States to tend to Bracero migrants and to protect them from...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
2023
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| In: |
The catholic historical review
Year: 2023, Volume: 109, Issue: 2, Pages: 351-377 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bracero Program
/ Catholic church
/ Migration
/ Priest
/ History 1942-1964
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KBR Latin America KDB Roman Catholic Church RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
Mexican priests
B Robert E. Lucey B Pius XII's Exsul Familia Nazarethana B Braceros Program [Mexican Farm Labor Program] B Operation Migratory Labor B Jose Garibi y Rivera |
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| Summary: | This article examines Operation Migratory Labor (O.M.L.), a cross-border collaboration between the Mexican and United States Catholic hierarchies, guided by Vatican authorities, from 1953–1964, which brought Mexican priests into the United States to tend to Bracero migrants and to protect them from Protestant missionization. Employing Vatican sources in tandem with Mexican documentation, this article demonstrates the geopolitical ramifications of this surge of migration in distinctively religious terms. O.M.L. heralded a new era of transnational migratory pastoral care and revealed how intertwined the institutional and pastoral concerns of the Mexican Catholic Hierarchy were during the 1940s and 1950s. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cat.2023.a899375 |