Reception of the Second Vatican Council in Tucumán, 1965-1973

Abstract

The Vatican Council II, one of de most important landmarks of twentieth century Catholic world, ended in the mid 1960s. The documents produced proposed a renewal in some liturgical aspects as well as in the conception of the pastoral mission. They did not necessarily mean a break but rather an updating to acknowledge the cultural, social and political changes of the first half of the century that seemed to reach a point of effervescence in the ‘60s. In this case we want to analyze the impact of the Second Vatican Council in the catholic world of Tucuman, and the alterations and continuities that can be recognized from this event. It should be noted that Tucumán was living a particular moment with regard to the ecclesiastical world as well as to the political and economic reality in the period covered here. Thus, from these data, we want to account for overlapping voices within heterogeneous Catholicism, and the articulation between the Church’s renewed dicourse and local reality.