PADRES : : The National Chicano Priest Movement / / Richard Edward Martínez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Martínez, Richard Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (205 p.)

From the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the 1960s, Mexican American Catholics experienced racism and discrimination within the U.S. Catholic church, as white priests and bishops maintained a racial divide in all areas of the church's ministry. To oppose this religious apartheid and challenge the church to minister fairly to all of its faithful, a group of Chicano priests formed PADRES (Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos, Educativos y Sociales, or Priests Associated for Religious, Educational, and Social Rights) in 1969. Over the next twenty years of its existence, PADRES became a powerful force for change within the Catholic church and for social justice within American society. This book offers the first history of the founding, activism, victories, and defeats of PADRES. At the heart of the book are oral history interviews with the founders of PADRES, who describe how their ministries in poor Mexican American parishes, as well as their own experiences of racism and discrimination within and outside the church, galvanized them into starting and sustaining the movement. Richard Martínez traces the ways in which PADRES was inspired by the Chicano movement and other civil rights struggles of the 1960s and also probes its linkages with liberation theology in Latin America. He uses a combination of social movement theory and organizational theory to explain why the group emerged, flourished, and eventually disbanded in 1989.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- One INTRODUCTION -- Two THE MEXICAN AMERICAN CATHOLIC EXPERIENCE -- Three THE ORIGINS OF PADRES -- Four PADRES: -- Five PADRES INSURGENCY -- Six SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND ITS COST -- Seven THEORY AND ANALYSIS: -- Appendix I ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES -- Appendix II METHODOLOGY -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX