Guzmán Carriquiry

Guzmán M. Carriquiry Lecour [pronunciation: gʊsˈman kariˈkiɾi ləˈkuʁ ] (born May 20, 1944 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan lawyer , publicist , cultural scientist , Roman Catholic association and church official and since 1972 curia official at the Holy See . He is Vice President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America .

Life

Guzmán Carriquiry studied at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, where he obtained his doctorate in law and social sciences . He worked as a university lecturer and lawyer . He held various management positions at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at his university in Montevideo as well as at various schools and educational institutions in his country and headed the youth and student organization of the Catholic University of Uruguay , the "Association of Catholic Students and Professionals" ( Asociación de Estudiantes y Profesionales Católicos , AEPC) of Uruguay and later also their Latin American umbrella organization. Guzmán Carriquiry became known as a Catholic publicist and intellectual in Uruguay and other Latin American countries and has published numerous books, magazine articles and lectures, particularly on topics of Catholic social teaching , Latin American history and culture and human rights issues . He worked with the Uruguayan Bishops' Conference and was director of the Center for Social Communication of Uruguayan Bishops.

On December 1, 1971, he entered the service of the Holy See . He was from 1974 as Auditor at several general meetings of the Roman (Expert) Synod of Bishops used, took over as peritus (consultant) to the General Assembly of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean ( CELAM ) from 1979 in Puebla , 1992 in Santo Domingo and in 2007 in Aparecida part and was sent as a delegate of the Holy See to international conferences of the United Nations . He was a participant in numerous conferences of international church organizations and a frequent guest at congresses and meetings of church organizers in Latin America . He has been involved in the organization of almost all World Youth Days since 1984 .

Pope Paul VI appointed him on February 11, 1977 to the Pontifical Council for the Laity . On September 12, 1991, he was appointed Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council of Laity by Pope John Paul II and in 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI. confirmed in this office. In this capacity he also took part in the special assembly of the Synod of Bishops for America in December 1997 in the Vatican. At the CELAM Bishops' Assembly in Aparecida in May 2007, he was the assistant to the Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio , who later became Pope Francis, and was responsible for the final editing of the final document.

On May 14, 2011 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. as secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, whose business he has since led. At the beginning of 2014 he was confirmed in office and in the same year was appointed Vice-President of the Commission as the first layperson . Until the appointment of Paolo Ruffini as prefect of the communication dicastery in July 2018, he held the highest non-priestly office in the Roman curia . As Vice-President and Executive Director of the Commission, Carriquiry coordinates the Vatican activities in Latin America together with the superior Congregation for the Bishops and the Pope.

His appointment came as a surprise because all of his predecessors were bishops . However, it corresponds to a current tendency of the Vatican to accept more lay people into high offices of the Curia. The Uruguayan also previously held one of the highest-ranking offices of the Holy See for non-priests in the lay council. The choice of a Latin American Pope was a reason for joy and enthusiasm for Carriquiry, but it also meant a great responsibility and brought new challenges, he said in an interview about his role as a Latin American in the pontificate of the Argentine Pope Francis. More than 60% of Catholics currently live in Latin America. Carriquiry has been friends with Bergoglio since the 1980s and was regularly one of the Jesuit's first points of contact during his visits to Rome in the decades before his election as Pope.

Guzmán Carriquiry held visiting professorships and teaching positions at various universities. Among other things, he held a leading position at the Instituto Superior de Ciencias, Filosofía y Letras , a subsidiary of the Catholic University of Chile ; Lecturer at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome and a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Verona (Italy). He held an extraordinary professorship at the Universidad de la Fraternidad de Agrupaciones Santo Tomás de Aquino (Universidad FASTA) in Mar del Plata (Argentina). He has received various awards, including the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory (1994), the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1992), the Grand Cross of the Chilean Order of Merit "Bernardo O'Higgins " (1999) and the Grand Cross of the Argentine Order of May (2001). On August 25, 2008, the University of FASTA awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Guzmán Carriquiry Lecour is married to Lídice María Gómez Mango, with whom he has four children. His wife, born in Montevideo, is a literary scholar and has taught Spanish at La Sapienza University in Rome.

Known publication

Carriquiry's 2003 book Una scommessa per l'America latina received particular attention . Memoria e destino storico di un continente (Casa Editrice Le Lettere, Rome 2003). As the title suggests ("Put on Latin America. Memory and historical future prospects of a continent"), the author analyzes the historical situation in Latin America in the context of the end of the Cold War and increasing globalization and sees it as an opportunity to learn from church and Catholic To design a future scenario of hope for the continent. The Spanish edition of the book entitled Una apuesta por América Latina: memoria y destino históricos de un continente (Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 2005) was published with a foreword by Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He considered the work to be the first large synthetic overall representation - inventory, synopsis, expectation of the future - of Latin American reality in the new historical phase that began towards the end of the 20th century and is developing in the present .

Web links

• Brief profile on the homepage of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, accessed on November 27, 2016 (Spanish).
• Interview with Guzmán Carriquiry of August 7, 2016 in the Basque newspaper La Tribuna del País Vasco , accessed on November 27, 2016 (Spanish).
• Interview with Guzmán Carriquiry of July 5, 2015 in the Bolivian newspaper El Deber , accessed on November 27, 2016 (Spanish).
• Book presentation in the Archdiocese of Lima for Carriquiry's 2012 book El papel de los laicos en la Nueva Evangelización (Ediciones Paulinas, Lima 2012), accessed on November 27, 2016 (Spanish).
• Book presentation in the Embassy of the Republic of Argentina at the Holy See for Carriquiry's 2011 book El bicentenario de la independencia de los países latinoamericanos (Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid 2011), accessed on November 27, 2016 (Spanish).
• Book review by Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga of Carriquiry's 2003 book Una scommessa per l'America latina. Memoria e destino storico di un continente (Casa Editrice Le Lettere, Rome 2003), accessed on November 27, 2016 (Spanish).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mention of the author at the Centro Cultural Católico Fe y Razón (Catholic Cultural Association Montevideo), accessed on November 25, 2016.
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Professor Guzmán Carriquiry, Doctor Honoris Causa. Article on catholic.net of August 21, 2008, accessed November 15, 2016.
3. ↑ Aparecida: What Cardinal Bergoglio brought to Rome. ( Memento of August 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Vatican Radio , August 17, 2017, accessed on the same day.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Vatican: Carriquiry new secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. Message from Vatican Radio dated May 14, 2011, accessed on November 16, 2016.
5. ↑ Carriquiry was appointed Vice-President on May 2, 2014 , Holy See press room statement dated the same day, accessed November 27, 2016.
6. ↑ For the first time, a layman heads a curia authority. In: Katholisch.de , July 5, 2018, accessed on July 18, 2020.
7. ↑ reporting ACIPrensa from July 23, 2016 (surprise visit of Pope Francis in the office of the Commission), accessed on 16 November 2016th
8. ↑ ^{a b} Guzmán Carriquiry: “El catolicismo en Latinoamérica es fuerte y resiste a la secularización”. Article on ReligiónConfidencial dated June 6, 2016, accessed November 16, 2016.
9. ↑ Monseñor Delgado Galindo anuncia que laicos y mujeres tendrán nuevas responsabilidades en la Curia. Article on ReligiónConfidencial of May 4, 2016, accessed November 16, 2016.
10. ↑ Report on the university's homepage from August 21, 2008 , accessed on November 27, 2016.
11. ↑ Lídice Gómez Mango de Carriquiry: L'incontro di lingue nel nuovo mondo. Lateran University Press, Rome 2000 (short biography of the author on the blurb).
12. ↑ Quote: Considero el libro del Dr. Carriquiry la primera gran obra de conjunto , recapituladora, sintética y proyectual, sobre la realidad latinoamericana en la nueva fase histórica que se ha abierto hacia finales del siglo XX y que se está desplegando en la actualidad (p. 7, italics in the original).