Horacio de la Costa, foreign missionaries, and the quest for Filipinization the church in the age of decolonization

Fr. Horacio de la Costa became the first Filipino Superior of the Jesuit Province in the Philippines (1964-1970) at a time when the Filipinization of religious orders was intensely contested. As a young priest, De la Costa sought the training of more Filipino priests so that the Catholic Church woul...

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Published in:	Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 65, No. 3 (September 2017), p. 304-314.
Main Authors:	Aguilar, Filomeno V. Jr (Author), Sy, Nicholas (Author)
Resource Type:	Analytics
Language:	English
Published:	2017.
Subjects:	Catholic church. Filipinos > Social conditions. Church history. Nationalism > Social aspects. Priests > Religious life.
Online Access:	https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9