Father Luis Olivaras Serio Arceo, a Bishop for 30 years in Quapanaca Mexico, speaks on his upbringing and career in the Catholic Church. He recounts his efforts to develop social justice in Nicaragua and Chile, the value of Marxism in promoting the Christian values of love, equality, and justice, and the important ethical contribution of Fidel Castro. Father Arceo traces the decline of Eastern Europe to consumerism, and that there is no contradiction between Christianity and progressive humanism. Socialism, he concludes, is the only answer in Latin America.|LIBERATION THEOLOGY IN LATIN AMERICA / Father Serio Mendes Arceo| interviewed by Reverend Phillip Zwerling. - SERIES: Cambridge Forum - Father Serio Arceo, a Bishop for 30 years in Guarnavaca Mexico, speaks on his upbringing and career in the Catholic Church. He recounts his efforts to develop social justice in Nicaragua and Chile, the value of Marxism in promoting the Christian values of love, equality, and justice, and the important ethical contribution of Fidel Castro. Father Arceo traces the decline of Eastern Europe to consumerism, and that there is no contradiction between Christianity and progressive humanism. Socialism, he concludes, is the only answer in Latin America. Recorded in Spanish with an English translation. Translated by Father Luis Olivares. - RECORDED: 10 Dec. 1989.
