Melissa Hollabaugh and Katie Hart will be sharing their experience traveling in El Salvador this past summer to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Jesuits of El Salvador. Melissa and Katie have…
Two of the great theologians: Gustavo Gutiérrez & Jon Sobrino; Maryknoll, NY; 1988; photo by Mev Puleo
Lindsay Weston recently wrote me Asked if I could recommend anything to read Instantly I thought of the trilogy So long on my shelf Barely perused but Now may be the time! I sent word…
If I had known Ernesto as he appears in the yellowed photograph Julia showed me: lean, bearded, with his plaid shirt and linen pants, hands in his pockets and that vague air of helplessness, I’d…
The Military Police have told you that all The Church should worry about is “souls” But what about the children starved by corporations? –Ernesto Cardenal, Epistle to Monsignor Casaldáliga
1. All that could happen to one who joined: Imprisoned, hooded, beaten, castrated, eyes pulled out, Buried alive, burned alive. 2. When I saw the disinterred bones of the two of you I remembered you…
I came to the revolution by way of the gospels. It was not by reading Marx but Christ. It can be said that the Gospels made me a Marxist…. –Ernesto Cardenal
Exteriorismo is a poetry created with images of the exterior world, the world we see and sense, and that is, in general, the specific world of poetry. Exteriorismo is objective poetry: narrative and anecdote, made…
I’ve handed out underground leaflets, Shouting Long Live Freedom! in the middle of the street Defying the armed guards. I took part in the April Rebellion: But I grow pale when I pass by your…
Headed toward Indianapolis See exit for Ronald Reagan Parkway I think of 1980s See a small mountain Of Central American corpses Women & children & men The slaughtered The disappeared At the hands of contras,…