The creation of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) represented a unique reception of the Second Vatican Council, positioning the Latin American Church as a Source Church for today's process of reforms. This Council not only created a collegial way of interacting at a continental level but also inaugurated a way of being and working and a mode of interaction that gave birth to a way of proceeding that would characterize the Latin American Church's own identity. The Latin American General Conferences, hosted by