The New Pope and Latin America
21/03/2013
Had a Latin American been elected Pope in 1978 (when John Paul II was chosen), he would probably have been someone influenced by the politically progressive ‘Liberation Theology’ which (declaring ‘an option for the poor’) then dominated Church thinking there. Now, however, the election of Argentina’s Jorge Bergoglio (as Francis I), following three decades of …
The Year Abroad experience
01/03/2013
I was recently reading an interview with the French philosopher Michel Foucault in which he talked about a period spent working in Sweden at the University of Uppsala in the 1950s. Foucault clearly remembered this experience of exposure to another language and another culture as being highly significant in terms of his personal and intellectual …
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