Voices from the Amazon: A conversation with Mauricio Lopez

'The Amazon is bleeding, ecologically, culturally and spiritually. And still from within this pain, hope emerges.' Mauricio López Oropeza, a prominent lay leader from Latin America, joined Geraldine Doogue for this year's 40th anniversary of the Hélder Câmara lecture series to reflect on how the Amazonian experience is reshaping global Catholicism. Bringing the voices from the peripheries to the centre isn't easy, as the Amazon synod showed, but can catholicity become the 'vaccine' against divisions in the Church and the world? Thanks to Br Mark O'Connor FMS, the Diocese of Parramatta and Newman College, where this conversation was recorded. Other links: Mauricio's address at Newman College in Catholic Outlook ‘In the rhythm of the canoe’: reflections on synodality and the Amazon by Melbourne Catholic Thanks for being in The Big Tent! Find us at our website and follow us on Facebook.