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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.
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.)
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See one published letter from Merton to Dom Helder Câmara in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 111-112.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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1967/03/13 |
TLS to Merton |
J'aime a vous voir sortir de votre silence, selon l'expression de Ernesto Balducci, "non avec le |
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"Fede e Violenza" / Balducci / [Jacques] Maritain / the Pope / Cardinal Maurice Roy (Quebec) / Robert M. Hutchins / Dorothy Dohen (Fordham Univ.) "Nationalism and Catholicism in the USA" / racism and the war / Raul Prebisch
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1967/04/08 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Je suis très ému par vos belles paroles et je vous en remercie bien chaleureusement. |
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conferences at Cornell and Princeton / Jacques Maritain and Saul Alinsky / U.S. government, "establishment" / La conference de Pacem in Terris / denial of permission to attend this and other conferences
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1967/04/08 (#02) |
transcript from Merton |
I am very moved by your gracious words and I thank you very much for them. I am even more grateful |
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translated transcript from published book of 1967/04/08 from French original
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