La OALA en sus cuarenta años de Historia

Abstract

The decade from 1970 to 1980 was a period of effervescence within the Church, a direct consequence of Vatican II. Also the Order of San Augustine was not alien to these changes, and especially after the Intermediate General Chapter of the year 1968, celebrated in Villanova. The first meeting of the future Organization of the Augustinians of Latin America (OALA) would be celebrated in Quito (Ecuador) in the following year, in April 1969. This would be the beginning of a long process of the Augustinian project that would culminate with the meeting of Chile. Various forces, progressive and conservative, have encouraged it during these four decades, which the author describes in great detail. He concludes with a series of observations and recommendations.