Clarity
The original sin of the prevailing world system has first of all been colonial domination. This is the first sin; all the others in the system spring from it. The greater sins are those that…
Category: Latin America
Latin America Reading Group
Julia Thomas, Mary Shannon and I are beginning a Latin America Reading Group. Our first book will be Che Guevara’s The Motorcycle Diaries. We hope to meet up in mid-October at Café Ventana, and will…
“Soneto amargo a la taza de café” de Ricardo Castorrivas (El Salvador)
Es la musa que anima a los poetas que van al cafetín de tarde en tarde. Mientras hablan de versos y cometas, la cafeína en sus cerebros arde…
July 19
“By Final Judgment of the world you should understand The destruction of injustice on earth And the reign of the Spirit of Light and Truth, that’s to say Love.” – Augusto Cesar Sandino (via Ernesto…
Oda a las gracias by Pablo Neruda
Gracias a la palabra que agradece, gracias a gracias por cuanto esta palabra derrite nieve o hierro.
An Evening with Danielle Mackey
We invite you to join us in welcoming Danielle Mackey back to St. Louis! An alum of the Casa de la Solidaridad program and Saint Louis University (2008), Danielle has worked in El Salvador with…
Be in Love with Yr Chilean Life
Mary Shannon studied with me last year when she was a freshman at SLU. This year she has been in Chile in a program Katie Schlechter and Cheryl Sullivan experienced a while back. Mary just …
Crosses, Values, Options
1. “Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts…
Fidel on Che
I view Che, furthermore, as a moral giant who grows day by day, whose image, whose strength, whose influence has multiplied throughout the world. How could he fit below a tombstone? How could he fit…
Thanks to all the Students & Friends Who Made Romero Present Tonight
1. A church that doesn’t provoke any crises, A gospel that doesn’t unsettle, A word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, A word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin Of the…