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"The Heaviest Blow"-The Catholic Church and the East Timor Issue
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"The Heaviest Blow"-The Catholic Church and the East Timor Issue. Patrick A. Smy the. Munster: Lit Verlag,2004. Pp. vii, 235. euro29.90.
Does church engagement in political advocacy jeopardize opportunities for evangelization in sensitive contexts? How and why does the church reflect rather than challenge national political and commercial interests? Does church silence in the face of oppression protect, stifle, or compromise Christian witness in different circumstances?
Patrick Smythe, who has served as a diocesan priest for more than thirty years, grapples with these questions as he reflectively examines eight nonunified church responses to the human rights abuses during …
