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Unlike most up-to-date reports of the Catholic Church in Latin the United States, Philip J. Williams analyzes the Church in very assorted political contexts-Nicaragua and Costa Rica. regardless of the most obvious changes, Williams argues that during either situations the Church has spoke back to social swap in remarkably related type. The efforts of innovative clergy to advertise swap in either nations were principally blocked by way of Church hierarchy, anxious that such switch will threaten the Church's effect in society.

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