MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Câmara Pessoa, Helder, Archbishop, 1909-1999
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967
Volume: 3 item(s); 4 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This collection of letters contains a one signed letter from Câmara and a carbon copy of a typed letter from Merton. The letters primarily concern issues of peace and social justice.
Biography
Before the Second Vatican Council was over, Dom Helder Câmara moved from being auxiliary bishop of Rio de Janeiro to archbishop of Olinda and Recife, a very poor region in the northeast of Brazil. Dubbed the "red bishop" by Time magazine, he was hailed by some as champion of the poor and labeled as a communist radical by detractors. A famous quote of his is, "When I feed the poor they called me a saint", he once said. "When I asked, 'Why are they poor?' they called me a communist." (Sources: The Hidden Ground of Love and The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research.)
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Related Information and Links
See one published letter from Merton to Dom Helder Câmara in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 111-112.
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