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Bishops on Carbon Pollution: A Model for Faith-Based Advocacy

Care about climate change and its impacts on all of us? Take a moment to read Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski’s May 29th letter. It is a model for faith-based advocacy letters; would that all were so well done.
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Martyrs of El Salvador: “Meeting” Martín Baró, S.J.

It was my first introduction to liberation theology and the civil war that had raged in El Salvador in the 1980s and early 90s. However, it would not be until about eighteen months later that I would “meet” Ignacio Martín-Baró, SJ.
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Legacies – UCA Martyrs

This year is the 25th anniversary of the murders of the UCA martyrs—November 16th, to be exact. The UCA, or University of Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador, will forever be memorialized as a place of heroic social justice, where six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter were brutally slain one November evening by members of the Salvadoran army.