Pedro Casaldáliga

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Pere Casaldàliga

Pedro Casaldáliga CMF , actually Pere Maria Casaldàliga i Pla (born February 16, 1928 in Balsareny , Catalonia ; † August 8, 2020 in Batatais , São Paulo , Brazil ) was a Spanish religious and Roman Catholic bishop of São Félix in Brazil.

Pedro Casaldáliga was one of the most prominent exponents of liberation theology . He was considered one of the most important fighters for human rights in Brazil. In addition to his work as a bishop, he became known as a poet and author of numerous publications.

Life

Pedro Casaldáliga joined the Order of the Claretians in 1943 and was ordained priest on May 31, 1952 at Montjuïc in Barcelona . From 1952 to 1958 he was a religion teacher in Sabadell , Barcelona, Barbastro and Madrid . In 1961 he became prefect of studies in Barbastro and in 1963 took over the management of the magazine Iris de Paz in Madrid. In 1968 he accepted the proposal to set up a mission station in São Félix do Araguaia in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on April 27, 1970 as Apostolic Administrator of the newly established territorial prelature São Félix with seat in São Félix do Araguaia in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso . On August 27, 1971, he was appointed titular bishop of Altava and appointed prelate of the territorial prelature of São Félix. The Archbishop of Goiânia , Fernando Gomes dos Santos , donated him episcopal ordination on October 23 of the same year; Co- consecrators were Tomás Balduino OP , Bishop of Goiás , and Bishop Juvenal Roriz CSsR , Prelate of Rubiataba .

Pedro Casaldáliga set conditions for his appointment as bishop:

  • He asks priests, religious and the people if they want him as bishop.
  • He only accepts the small farmers' straw hat as a miter and symbols of the indigenous population of his future diocese as a ring and shepherd's staff: the black ring made from the Tucum palm and an oar of the Tapirapé Indians.

On February 2, 2005, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. Pedro Casaldáliga suffered from Parkinson's and died in August 2020 at the age of 92.

Act

Pedro Casaldáliga's most important achievement was the establishment and direction of the prelature in São Félix do Araguaia. In the face of great social injustice, poverty, hunger and violence, he always defended human rights, especially those of the poor.

In addition, he was an important exponent of the theology of liberation in Latin America . He supported the ecclesiastical grassroots movements in Nicaragua and all of Central America during the time of the Nicaraguan Revolution and the severe internal church disputes that followed. This partisanship and his commitment to social justice resulted in a conflict with some authorities in the Vatican .

Pedro Casaldáliga was attacked by local rulers, large landowners, politicians and the military for his commitment and threatened with death several times, among other things because of his commitment to the land rights of the Xavante Indians in northern Brazil.

He was one of the most famous political and religious poets in Latin America. His poems in Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan have found worldwide distribution and countless translations.

In 2000 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas .

Works in German translation

  • I can no longer remain silent (= Adveniat documents, project no. 11). Office of the Episcopal Action Adveniat, Essen 1972, DNB 730535495 .
  • Teófilo Cabestrero: Mysticism of Liberation: a portrait of Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga in Brazil. Jugenddienst Verlag, Wuppertal 1981, ISBN 978-3-7795-7353-1 .
  • The embers come from below. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1981, ISBN 978-3-7887-0660-9 .
  • Missa dos Quilombos. In: Horst Goldstein (ed.): Days between death and resurrection. Spiritual yearbook from Latin America. Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 978-3-491-72142-5 .
  • In search of the kingdom of God. An anthology. Hermagoras, Klagenfurt / Vienna, 1989, ISBN 978-3-85013-160-5 .
  • together with Leonardo Boff and Hermann Mayer: Kampf und Prophetie: Recordings of a trip through Nicaragua. St. Gabriel, Mödling 1990, ISBN 978-3-85264-339-7 .
  • Like a flower of fire: little songs. Edited and transferred by Hermann Brandt . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1992, ISBN 978-3-7887-1210-5 .
  • Time to remember, time to commit. In: Missionszentrale der Franziskaner (Ed.): 500 years of gold and God: 1492–1992 (= reports, documents, comments 49). Missionszentrale der Franziskaner, Bonn, 1992, DNB 921422660 , pp. 13-19.
  • Thirst for Love and Justice: A Small Anthology. Hermagoras, Klagenfurt / Vienna, 1993, ISBN 978-3-85013-335-7 .

Movies

  • Pé na caminhada (German version: "God's people on the way"), 1985
  • Amerindia (on the 500-year history of the conquest, colonial oppression and extermination of indigenous peoples of Latin America), 1992
  • The Seven Sources of Life, 1994

literature

  • Teófilo Cabestrero: Mysticism of Liberation. A portrait of Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga in Brazil . Jugenddienst-Verlag, Wuppertal 1981, ISBN 3-7795-7353-9 .
  • Francesc Escribano: Barefoot over red earth. The life of Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga . Hermagoras, Klagenfurt et al. 2003, ISBN 3-85013-973-5 .
  • Benjamin Forcano, Maximino Cerezo, José María Concepcion, Eduardo Lallana (eds.): Pedro Serniliga. His friends on his 80th birthday. Portrait of a personality . Translated from the Spanish by Christina Gawlas. Abridged edition. Hermagoras, Klagenfurt et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7086-0432-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fabiano Maisonnave: Morre dom Pedro Casaldáliga, o bispo do chapéu de palha que enfrentou latifundiários na Amazônia. In: folha.uol.com.br . August 8, 2020, accessed August 8, 2020 (Portuguese).
  2. ^ Pedro Casaldáliga. In: Konzilsvaeter.de. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; accessed on August 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ liberation theologian Pedro Casaldáliga is dead. In: katholisch.de . August 9, 2020, accessed August 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ All films from: Verbo Filmes-D, Münster, Wittoverstiege 68. See www.konzilsvaeter.de
predecessor Office successor
- Prelate of São Félix
1971–2005 		Leonardo Ulrich Steiner OFM
personal data
SURNAME Casaldáliga, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casaldàliga i Plá, Pere Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish religious and bishop, liberation theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Balsareny , Catalonia , Spain
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2020
Place of death Batatais , São Paulo , Brazil