HELDER CAMERA AND OSCAR ROMERO. Reflections of a historian on two pastoral itineraries

Abstract

The article aims to analyze similarities and differences between the pastoral trajectories of Dom Helder Câmara and Oscar Romero, two of the main figures of the “Church of the Poor”. It also proposes an explanation of the processes leading to the social conversion of both religious men.

Keywords

• Liberation Theology
• Church of the Poor;
• dictatorship
• Helder Câmara;
• Oscar Romero