breaking down those traditions. As Mexico faces new political and economic challenges on its developmental path, the Church's contributions are likely to expand rather than be withdrawn.
NOTES
1.
Brian H. Smith, "Church and Human Rights in Latin America," Journal of Inter-
American Studies and World Affairs 21 ( February 1979): 117.
2.
Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de Derechos Humanos, Report on Human Rights ( Mexico City: CMDP, 1992), 43; Rafael Rodríguez Castañeda, "Antidemocracia y violación de derechos humanos, en aras de salvaguardar el proyecto económico," Proceso, March 26, 1990, 14.
3.
Americas Watch, Unceasing Abuses: Human Rights in Mexico One Year after the
Introduction of Reform ( New York: Americas Watch, 1991), 5.
4.
Patricia Arias et al., Radiografía de la iglesia católica en México ( Mexico City: UNAM, 1981), 14.
5.
Martín de la Rosa, "La Iglesia católica en México, del Vaticano II a la CELAM III," Cuadernos Politicos 19 ( January-March 1979): 94.
6.
Dennis M. Hanratty, "Change and Conflict in the Contemporary Mexican Catholic
Church," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 1980, 158.
7.
Martín de la Rosa, "La Iglesia católica en México,"95.
8.
Allan Metz, "Church-State Relations in Contemporary Mexico, 1968-1988," in The
Religious Challenge to the State,
Matthew C. Moen and
Lowell S. Gustafson, eds. ( Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992), 107.
9.
Personal interview with Father Ernesto Menenses Morales, former president of the
Ibero-American University, Mexico City, June 6, 1988.
10.
Carolyn Cook Dipboye, "Tbe Roman Catholic Church and the Political Structure for
Human Rights in Latin America, 1968-1980," Journal of Church and State 24 (Autumn 1982): 522-223.
11.
Allan Metz, "Church-State Relations in Contemporary Mexico,"117.
12.
Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains the following: "All
states shall adopt effective means of preventing and eliminating all discrimination based on
religion or beliefs in the recognition, the exercise, and the enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental liberties in all aspects of civil, economic, political, social, and cultural life."
See Luis Reynoso, "Planteamiento del problema entre la iglesia y la comunidad politica,"
in La participacóon política del clero en México,
Luis J. Molina, ed. ( Mexico City: UNAM, 1990), 171. For evidence of the debate, see George Grayson, The Church in
Contemporary Mexico ( Washington: CSIS, 1992), 58.
13.
Proceso, May 13, 1985, 16.
14.
Allan Metz, "Church-State Relations in Contemporary Mexico, 1968-1988,"119.
15.
Proceso, November 28, 1988, 18.
16.
Carolyn Cook Dipboye, "The Roman Catholic Church and the Political Structure for
Human Rights in Latin America, 1968-1980,"513.
17.
Brian H. Smith, "Churrh and Human Rights in Latin America,"116.
18.
Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de Derechos Humanos, Report on
Human Rights ( Mexico City: CMDP, 1992), 55-57, 72.
19.
Marjorie Miller, "Mexico Church-State Relations: Stepping Out from the Shadows," Los Angeles Times, April 29, 1990, n.p.
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Publication year: 1997.
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