San Miguelito Mission Records
1962-1986.
Origination : San Miguelito Mission.Extent : 15 linear feet. 15 photographs. 5 linear inches of printed material.
Repository : University of Notre Dame Archives
Address : Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
In Spanish and English.
Preferred Citation
San Miguelito Mission Records (SMM), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Scope and Content
Correspondence, financial and parish records, subject files, histories of the mission, printed material, and photographs. Principal correspondents include John Cardinal Cody of Chicago, Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama, and the priests of the mission and the Archdiocese of Chicago: Leo T. Mahon, Donald Headley, Frederick McTernan, John Enright, and John Greeley.
Background
The mission was an experimental parish organized by the Archdiocese of Chicago in San Miguelito, Panama, 1962. By 1980 the mission had assumed control over fifty-three parishes and base communities (comunidades de base) surrounding San Miguelito. Controversy involving questions of theology and liturgy led to the termination of the project by the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1980. The mission has been considered an early example of the practice of liberation theology.
Index
San Miguelito Mission.Liberation theology.
Christian communities -- Catholic Church.
Cody, John Patrick.
McGrath, Marcos, 1924-
Mahon, Leo T.
Headley, Donald.
McTernan, Frederick.
Enright, John P.
Greeley, John.
Latin America -- Religion.
Catholic Church -- Panama -- San Miguelito.