ABSTRACT
The Cuban Revolution, with its attempt to build a new socialist society, unlike the Soviet model, played an important role in this process of radicalization, representing an alternative to reformism for many Christians. Cuba, in fact, was an example for many Latin American Catholics, such as Mgr. Fragoso, Bishop of Crateus, who publicly acknowledged how the priests and youths of Cuban Catholic Action had actively contributed to the guerrilla warfare. The most important exemplary case influenced by the Latin America revolutionary groups was, however, the Christians for Socialism movement (CPS). It was born in Italy in September 1973 and it was inspired by the homonymous Latin American group founded in Santiago of Chile in 1972: a radical left-wing movement close to the positions of Liberation Theology. CPS was one of the protagonists of the Post-Conciliar age and it acted in a difficult social and ecclesiastic context.
