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8336h131c15	Leo Guardado	Church as Sanctuary: A Preferential Option for the Displaced and Persecuted Poor	1904		.txt	text/plain	354	8	23	This historical and political context becomes the foundation for a systematic theological reflection where I retrieve ancient traditions of refuge and sanctuary and place them in dialogue with the ecclesiology of Vatican II; analyze the sacramentality of the poor in Oscar Romero's preaching and witness in relation to the vision of a church of the poor as expressed at the Medellin conference; and develop four categories that constitute church as sanctuary: refuge, healing, holiness, and salvation. Among communities of faith the possibility of providing church sanctuary can become a point of controversy and division rather than unity.	cache/8336h131c15.txt	txt/8336h131c15.txt