Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to expose the tensions between the global anti-neoliberal discourse of the Catholic Church and the neoliberal catholic practices in Latin America. To achieve this goal, three moments are proposed: initially, the principles of neoliberalism and their application in Latin America at the end of the last century and beginning of the present are exposed; next, the neoliberal local practices of the Latin American Catholic Church are presented; later, the exposition of what the Catholic Church said in its global discourse regarding neoliberalism under the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis I is made. All this in order to present a contrast between these two (global discourse and local practice) by exposing the current disengagement between the global and local discourse of the Catholic Church with respect to neoliberalism.
Keywords:
Catholic Church; Neoliberalism; Globalization; Latin American