LAS INTERVENCIONES DEL EPISCOPADO VENEZOLANO DURANTE EL TRIENIO ADECO (1945-1948)

Resumen

During the years 1945-1948 the board of the Democratic Action Party government ruled Venezuela. In this period there were sorne clashes between the Church and the State at the polítical and social situation in which the Church feared for the imposition of a socialist regime that discriminated and attacked the Catholic institution. They were intense debates in the Constituent Assembly, in which there were four priests assembly. The bishops intervened indirectly in these discussions through their pastoral letters in which they discussed, among other things, issues of inclusion of the name of God in the new Constitution, the anachronistic law Ecclesiastical Patronage and prívate Catholic education. These discussions hada significan! impact on public opinion and on the destiny of the country, and left their mark. In the end, the adeco regime, succumbed and ended up being overthrown.