| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Edward T. Brett. The U.S. Catholic Press on Central America: From Cold War Anticommunism to Social Justice. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 265. Cloth $45.00, paper $22.00.
American Catholic opinion toward U.S. policy in Central America changed dramatically in the 1960s. Where most North American Catholics supported the overthrow of leftist regimes such as that of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in Guatemala in 1954, little more than a decade later mainstream Catholic publications described him as a reformer and a victim of American aggression.	1
Edward T. Brett traces the evolution of U.S. Catholic views on Central America as reflected in a representative sample of publications, from the liberal (Commonweal, National Catholic Reporter, to the centrist (America, Our Sunday Visitor) to the conservative (Crisis) to denizens of the farthest reaches of the right (The Wanderer). In the 1950s, a reflexive anticommunist consensus wedded the Catholic press to a largely uncritical embrace of American meddling in Central American nations, with only occasional dissent registered in the pages of Commonweal or, less predictably, the Sign, a monthly magazine published by the Passionists. The anticommunism promoted in these periodicals was in tune with Catholic attitudes, which in turn differed little from those found in the broader political culture.	. . .

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