La romanización de la Iglesia católica en América Latina: una estratégia de larga duración

From the mid-Nineteenth century on, the Catholic Church has undergone a process of romanization, ie, the institutional centralization and unification according to the directives of the Roman Curia, in order to integrate all the world's Catholics around the figure of the Pope. In Latin America the process of Romanization meant the end of the regime of Padroado, which had turned the kings of Spain and Portugal (and later the emperor of Brazil) into "patrons" of the Church. The process of Romanization - animated by a "comprehensive" and even "fundamentalist" Catholicism - has promoted a renewal i...