Day 4: Repairers of the Breach
If we want to achieve meaningful change, we must stop hiding behind walls and start building bridges.
Matt Cuff is the senior policy advisor of the Advocacy Office of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. He earned his B.A. in theology from Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, and is a graduate of Scranton Preparatory School in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
If we want to achieve meaningful change, we must stop hiding behind walls and start building bridges.
Fr. Ignacio Ellacuría SJ, president of the University of Central America (UCA) during the Salvadoran Civil War, had an incredible gift for discerning the uncomfortable truths behind complex events. This gift would lead to his assassination in 1989. In an essay on what Ellacuría meant to him, Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, a friend and colleague, recalls that “In the face of the horrors of those years, Ignacio used to say with shock and pain, ‘Here in El Salvador, life is worthless.’”
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