Committed to Doing Justice: It’s All About Love
Committed to doing justice is a disturbing, challenging and inspiring graduate profile. It is not enough to be committed to justice in word or intention; the goal is doing justice. May we honor it, live into it and love large.
Here in El Salvador, Life is Worthless
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.’”
Man as God’s Microphone: 11 Quotes to Celebrate the Life and Voice of Oscar Romero
August 15th is Archbishop Oscar Romero's birthday - he would have been 97. In honor of his birth, our summer interns from Walsh Jesuit High School put together a collection of 11 Romero quotes they find most meaningful.