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SOCIETY OF JESUS PROPER CALENDAR JANUARY 3 THE MOST HOLY NAME OF JESUS, Titular Feast of the Society of Jesus Solemnity 19 Sts. John Ogilvie, Priest; Stephen Pongrácz, Melchior Grodziecki, Priests, and Mark of Križevci, Canon of Esztergom; Bl. Ignatius de Azevedo, Priest, and Companions; James Salès, Priest, and William Saultemouche, Religious, Martyrs FEBRUARY 4 St. John de Brito, Priest; Bl. Rudolph Acquaviva, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs 6 Sts. Paul Miki, Religious, and Companions; Bl. Charles Spinola, Sebastian Kimura, Priests, and Companions; Peter Kibe Kasui, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs Memorial 15 St. Claude La Colombière, Priest Memorial MARCH 19 ST. JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, Patron Saint of the Society of Jesus Solemnity APRIL 22 THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS Feast 27 St. Peter Canisius, Priest and Doctor of the Church Memorial MAY 4 St. José María Rubio, Priest 8 Bl. John Sullivan, Priest 16 St. Andrew Bobola, Priest and Martyr 24 Our Lady of the Way JUNE 8 St. James Berthieu, Priest and Martyr Memorial 9 St. Joseph de Anchieta, Priest 21 St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious Memorial JULY 2 Sts. Bernardine Realino, John Francis Régis and Francis Jerome; Bl. Julian Maunoir and Anthony Baldinucci, Priests 9 Sts. Leo Ignatius Mangin, Priest, Mary Zhu Wu and Companions, Martyrs Memorial 31 ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, Priest and Founder of the Society of Jesus Solemnity AUGUST 2 St. Peter Faber, Priest 18 St. Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, Priest Memorial SEPTEMBER 2 Bl. James Bonnaud, Priest, and Companions; Joseph Imbert and John Nicolas Cordier, Priests; Thomas Sitjar, Priest, and Companions; John Fausti, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs 9 St. -
Here Ideas Are Genuineh Wdangerous
BY FRANK SMYTH AN SALVADOR-Several months ago a friend in vi ted me to his sociology class. "Come on," he said, "we're going to see a movie." Beaches, starringBette Midler, was the day's discussion subject. Students milled about the audito rium, many in Levis and Reeboks. With a Coke and popcorn in hand, I felt as close to home as a foreigner can feel in El Salvador. EntreAmigos-"Among Friends" is how the movie title was translated into Spanish. Readers may be famil iar with the plot: two young girls meet by chance in California and build a friendship that stretches to lew York and lasts for life. When the lights came on, a tall man with a long greying beard took his place at the front of the class. He spoke in a deep raspy voice. "What does it mean to be friends?" he asked paternally. "What does it mean to have a friendship?" But the discussion soon took its own track. "What is the meaning of friendship," asked one woman, "in the midst ofwar?" A Salvadoran soldier interrogates a suspected guerilla during the November fighting in San Salvador. BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 21 But I made the trip alone. In Miami I sal next to twoemptychairsadorned with flowers. Before daylight on November 16, in the midst of a major military offensive by leftist guerrillas, U.S.-trained and equipped anTI\ For Nacho, soldiers surrounded and entered UCA's grounds. They marched six jesuit priests, in cluding Segundo and Nacho, into a grass\ violence was part of courtyard in their nightclothes. -
Promotio Iustitiae No
Nº 117, 2015/1 Promotio Iustitiae Martyrs for justice From Latin America Juan Hernández Pico, SJ Aloir Pacini, SJ From Africa David Harold-Barry, SJ Jean Baptiste Ganza, SJ From South Asia William Robins, SJ M.K. Jose, SJ From Asia Pacific Juzito Rebelo, SJ Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat Society of Jesus Editor: Patxi Álvarez sj Publishing Coordinator: Concetta Negri Promotio Iustitiae is published by the Social Justice Secretariat at the General Curia of the Society of Jesus (Rome) in English, French, Italian and Spanish. Promotio Iustitiae is available electronically on the World Wide Web at the following address: www.sjweb.info/sjs If you are struck by an idea in this issue, your brief comment is very welcome. To send a letter to Promotio Iustitiae for inclusion in a future issue, please write to the fax or email address shown on the back cover. The re-printing of the document is encouraged; please cite Promotio Iustitiae as the source, along with the address, and send a copy of the re-print to the Editor. 2 Social Justice and Ecology Secretariat Contents Editorial .................................................................................. 4 Patxi Álvarez, SJ The legacy of the martyrs of El Salvador ..................................... 6 Juan Hernández Pico, SJ With martyrdom is reborn the hope of the indigenous peoples of Mato Grosso .......................................................................... 10 Aloir Pacini, SJ The seven Jesuit martyrs of Zimbabwe...................................... 14 David Harold-Barry, SJ Three grains planted in the Rwandan soil .................................. 18 Jean Baptiste Ganza, SJ A Haven for the Homeless: Fr. Thomas E. Gafney, SJ .................. 21 William Robins, SJ Fr. -
Informe N° 136/99 Caso 10.488 Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J
11/7/2020 El Salvador 10.488 INFORME N° 136/99 CASO 10.488 IGNACIO ELLACURÍA, S.J.; SEGUNDO MONTES, S.J.; ARMANDO LÓPEZ, S.J.; IGNACIO MARTÍN BARÓ, S.J.; JOAQUÍN LÓPEZ Y LÓPEZ, S.J.; JUAN RAMÓN MORENO, S.J.; JULIA ELBA RAMOS; Y CELINA MARICETH RAMOS EL SALVADOR 22 de diciembre de 1999 I. RESUMEN 1. El 16 de noviembre de 1989 la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (en adelante "la Comisión" o "la CIDH") recibió de la organización no gubernamental Américas Watch (en adelante "Americas Watch" o "los peticionarios") una petición en la que se denuncia la violación por parte de la República de El Salvador (en adelante el "Estado salvadoreño", el "Estado" o "El Salvador") de la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos (en adelante la "Convención Americana") en perjuicio de seis sacerdotes jesuitas y dos mujeres ejecutadas extrajudicialmente por agentes del Estado. Conforme a la denuncia, los hechos ocurrieron en la madrugada de ese mismo día, en la residencia de los jesuitas ubicada en el predio de la Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" (en adelante "la UCA") en San Salvador. Los sacerdotes jesuitas eran el Rector de la UCA, Padre Ignacio Ellacuría, de 59 años; el Vicerector, Padre Ignacio Martín Baró, de 47 años; el Director del Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la UCA, Padre Segundo Montes, de 53 años, fundador del Socorro Jurídico Cristiano "Oscar Arnulfo Romero" y presidente del Instituto de Derechos Humanos (IDHUCA) de la misma universidad, y los profesores Armando López, Joaquín López y López y Juan Ramón Moreno. Las mujeres eran la señora Julia Elba Ramos, que se desempeñaba como cocinera en la residencia, y su hija de quince años, Celina Mariceth Ramos. -
Paying the Price: Ignacio Ellacuría and the Murdered Jesuits of El Salvador
FOREWORD I remember the moment when I learned of Ignacio Ellacuría’s murder as vividly as I do the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the death of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. This, I suspect, pigeonholes me as a member of a certain class and generation of Latin Americans. This cultural identity may also explain my reaction upon hearing the news—from a Guatemalan diplomat, in the ornate Council Chamber of the Pan-American Union in Washington, D.C. What shot into my mind were the words of the fascist general Millin Astray at a rally during the Spanish Civil War: “¡Viva la Muerte! ¡Abajo la Inteligencia! “ As the U.N. secretary-general’s representative, I devoted the better part of 1990 and 1991 to conducting the negotiations between the government of El Salvador and the Frente Farubundo Martí para la Liberución Nacional (FMLN) that culminated in the comprehensive peace accord signed on January 16, 1992 at Chapultepec Castle, in Mexico City. The negotiations had an ambitious, four-fold purpose: to end the armed conflict, promote democratization, guarantee unrestricted respect for human rights, and reunify Salvadoran society. El Salvador has come a long way since then. As part of a radical reform involving unprecedented constitutional amendments, the Salva- doran armed forces have been restricted to defense from external threats, and deprived of their previous roles in public security matters and as the ultimate arbiter of national political life. They have been purged of Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this foreword do not necessarily reflect the views or position of the United Nations. -
'Be a Patriot: Kill a Priest'
‘BE A PATRIOT: KILL A PRIEST’ Michael Campbell-Johnston The slogan that gives this article its title, which was daubed on the walls of El Salvador’s capital during its civil war, took on a terrible actuality when the entire Jesuit staff of the University of Central America, except Jon Sobrino, who happened to be abroad, were murdered. Who were these priests? Why were they killed? And what is their legacy? The man who was at that time Jesuit superior of the British province, and was himself in El Salvador for three years before being called to London, answers these questions. This article was originally published in the British Catholic weekly, The Tablet, a few days after the murders.1 N SOME WAYS THE SIX JESUITS who were killed in El Salvador last I week were typical of the other 65 working in the country, and of Jesuits anywhere else for that matter. Five of them had been sent to Central America as ‘missionaries’ from Spain during the early years of their training. Ignacio Ellacuría left his native Vizcaya as a second-year novice at the age of eighteen. During the forty years he had lived and worked in the region he became identified with its people and problems. Like missionaries elsewhere, he adopted local citizenship. The same was true for Segundo Montes, superior of the small community where they lived, and for Ignacio Martín-Baró, at 47 the youngest of the group. The other two Spaniards had mainly worked outside El Salvador, in one of the other five countries which make up the Jesuit Province of Central America. -
VFW NORTH END POST 144 Veterans Day Remembrance
VOL. 123 - NO. 47 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 $.35 A COPY VFW NORTH END POST 144 Veterans Day Remembrance News Briefs by Sal Giarratani Adolescents vs. Adults Recently, I read a press release from advocates con- cerned about the prison/jail population of 16-25-year olders. This group believes that this age group should be considered not adults by the prison system so they would not have a record upon release. However, at the same time, U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley th is pushing to allow 16 year olders to vote in federal elec- VFW Post 144 is celebrating its 98 year as part and all veterans on Veterans Day and Memorial tions. What gives here? Commit a crime and they call of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars. In 1921, Day. you a juvenile up to age 25 but when it comes to voting, North End WWI Veterans formed VFW Post 144. As part of the North End and Boston community, treat these same folks as adult enough to vote. Can’t Since then, the Post has continued to honor and VFW Post 144 provides support to “Local Veterans have it both ways. Sixteen is too young to vote period. remember North End veterans from WWI, WWII, Services” and charitable contributions to “North Korea, Vietnam, and the more recent conflicts. End Community Organizations.” Now it’s Bribery? VFW Post 144 members conduct a remem- Paul Spera, Past National VFW Commander, The Democrats were hell bent on getting the president brance ceremony in the Pardo to honor North End, currently serves as VFW Post 144 Quartermaster. -
El Pensamiento Teologico-Pastoral En Las Homilias De Monsenor Romero
THE JESUIT MARTYRS OF EL SALVADOR The six Jesuits who were killed by a military death squad on the campus of the Jesuit University of El Salvador (UCA) on November 16 th 20 years ago were typical of many of the others working in the country at the time. Five had been sent to Central America as “missionaries” from Spain during the early years of their training. Ignacio Ellacuría left his native Vizcaya as a second-year novice at the age of 18. During the 40 years he lived and worked in the region, he became identified with its people and problems. Like missionaries elsewhere, he adopted local citizenship. The same was true for Segundo Montes, superior of the small community where they lived, and for Ignacio Mártin-Baró, at 47 the youngest of the group. The other two Spaniards had mainly worked outside El Salvador, in one of the other five countries which make up the Jesuit Province of Central America. Amando López had been rector of the Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua, from 1979 to 1982 and had only been teaching in the theology faculty at the UCA for six years. Juan Ramón Moreno was an even more recent newcomer from Nicaragua where he had edited Diakonía, a bi-monthly review of spirituality. Before that he had been novice master in Panama of the then vice-province from 1968 t0 1973. The exception was Joaquín López y López, at 71 the oldest member of the group, who was born and bred in El Salvador. For many years he taught in the Jesuit secondary school in San Salvador, the Externado San José. -
Higher Standards for Higher Education: the Christian University and Solidarity
Higher Standards for Higher Education: The Christian University and Solidarity Dean Brackley, S.J. Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas@ San Salvador Ten years ago, in November of 1989, a commando unit of the Salvadoran armed forces entered the campus of the Central American University (UCA) and killed two women colleagues and six Jesuit priests. The tenth anniversary of the UCA massacre offers us a rich opportunity to continue our reflection on what a university must be for the 21st century, especially a Christian and Catholic university. The murdered university president, Ignacio Ellacuría, and those who shaped the UCA wanted a university at the service of their country. They argued that this meant the "liberation of the poor majorities." The UCA was to pursue its goal of service to the poor, and to the nation, universitariamente, that is, by doing the work proper to a university, not that of a church, a political party or some other kind of organization. A university seeks the truth. The objective of human liberation threw into sharp relief that the UCA was to pursue the truth about la realidad nacional, the national reality. The three instruments, or means, proper to the university in the pursuit of this goal were to be the familiar two of teaching and research and the less familiar one of proyección social. This last, social projection, includes all those means by which the university projects the truth it discovers directly into the social world outside the campus in order to help shape social consciousness. University personnel carried out proyección social through public speaking and appearances in the media, publications, the work of Segundo Montes=s Human Rights Institute, Martín-Baró=s Institute for Public Opinion and the Pastoral Center. -
The Legacy of the Jesuit Martyrs
AN EXAMINATION OF CATHOLIC IDENTITY AND IGNATIAN CHARACTER IN JESUIT HIGHER explore EDUCATION P UBLISHED BY THE I GNATIAN C ENTER AT S ANTA C LARA U NIVERSITY FALL 2009 VOL. 13 NO. 1 The Legacy of the Jesuit Martyrs 4 Why Were They Killed? 14 El Salvador 20 Rising to the 20 Years Later Martyrs’ Challenge FALL 2009 P UBLISHED BY THE I GNATIAN C ENTER FOR J ESUIT E DU C ATION AT S A N TA C LARA U NIVERSITY Peter Thamer ’08 F ROM THE C ENTER D IRE C TOR Kevin P. Quinn, S.J. Executive Director n the early hours of Nov. 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their Paul Woolley housekeeper, and her teenage daughter were brutally Associate Director I murdered by Salvadoran soldiers on the campus of the University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador, El Salvador. Elizabeth Kelley Gillogly ’93 Managing Editor For speaking truth to power in war-ravaged El Salvador, for defending the poorest of the poor, and for ultimately promoting Amy Kremer Gomersall ’88 Design a faith that does justice without qualification, these Jesuits were considered traitors by certain members of El Salvador’s elite and Ignatian Center Advisory Board so were summarily executed. The 20th anniversary of the Jesuit Margaret Bradshaw Simon Chin assassinations offers an important opportunity to reflect on the Paul Crowley, S.J. enduring legacy of the martyrs and to ask what this legacy could Michael Engh, S.J. mean for Santa Clara University and for Jesuit higher education in Frederick J. Ferrer the early 21st century. -
January 2020
72/912 GJS JANUARY 2020 FROM THE PROVINCIAL’S DESK PROVINCIAL’S PROGRAMME January 05 Vijaynagar -Poshina: Informal Visit 06 Modasa-Bhiloda: Informal Visit 07 Radhanpur: Informal Visit 08 Mandali & Unteshwari: Informal Visit Thank you, Fr Shekhar …. 09 Kalol & Dhandhuka: Informal Visit 10 Bawla: Informal Visit On behalf of the entire province, I would like to express my deep and sincere gratitude to Fr Shekhar 11 St. Xavier’s College, Graduation Day Manickam for shouldering the responsibility of Socius 13-14 JEA Meeting, Sevasi (Executive Assistant) of the Gujarat Province since 1 14-15 Province Consult June 2015; besides being the Socius, Fr Shekhar was also 20 Nadiad, Anand: Informal Visit the Admonitor, a Province Consultor and the Superior of 21 Vidyanagar, Khatamba, Rosary: Informal Visit Premal Jyoti community. 22 St. Joseph’s, Vadodara: Informal Visit Fr Shekhar handled all these responsibilities with 23 Jeevan Darshan, Vadodara: Informal Visit diligence and meticulousness. It is always a tough job to respond to demands from various quarters and particularly 24 Bharuch- Ankleshwar: Informal Visit to meet the deadlines given; but Fr Shekhar did so with his 25 Vyara & Mandal: Informal Visit characteristic sensitivity and effi ciency. 26 Charvi (Unai): Chapel Inauguration As he leaves us, to take up the new assignment entrusted 27 Dadhwada & Zankhvav: Informal Visit. to him as Regional Secretary for our Assistancy in Rome, 28 Nanisingloti & Rajpipla: Informal Visit our prayers and good wishes accompany him. February 01 CCD Board of trustees meeting Fr. Durai Fernand SJ 02 Shamgahan - Final Vows: Fr John Kennedy Provincial Superior, Gujarat 03 Sevasi XTI, Sneha Jyoti: Informal Visit 04 Anklav: Informal Visit 1 GUJARAT JESUIT SAMACHAR JANUARY - 2020 APPPOINTMENTS WRCC GENERAL has appointed The Western Region Catholic Council (WRCC) held a conference on 14-15 December at Jivan Vikas, Kosihmbi Fr. -
The Witness of the Central American Martyrs: a Social Justice Aesthetic at U.S
The Witness of the Central American Martyrs: A Social Justice Aesthetic at U.S. Jesuit Colleges and Universities Tim Dulle Jr. U.S. Catholic Historian, Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2021, pp. 105-126 (Article) Published by The Catholic University of America Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2021.0019 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/800036 [ Access provided at 16 Aug 2021 18:15 GMT from Xavier University ] The Witness of the Central American Martyrs: A Social Justice Aesthetic at U.S. Jesuit Colleges and Universities Tim Dulle, Jr.* In 1989 the Salvadoran military murdered six Jesuit priests and two of their companions at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA), the Jesuit university in San Salvador. The killings ignited international protests, and the victims, well-known for their advocacy of human rights and social justice, quickly became celebrated martyrs. The Jesuits of the United States, who maintained a strong relationship with their Central American coun- terparts, were especially active in mobilizing their network in remem- brance of the UCA martyrs. In the decades since their deaths, these figures have become important symbols representing a social justice vision for Jesuit higher education in the U.S. The network’s members often made use of aes- thetic commemorations to invite others into the martyrs’ ongoing legacy, thereby staking a position in the ongoing contest concerning the soul of U.S. Catholic higher education. Keywords: Society of Jesus; Jesuits; Catholic higher education; social jus- tice; visual culture; El Salvador; Ellacuría, Ignacio, S.J.; Universidad Centroamericana; Rockhurst University; Xavier University; Ignatian Solidarity Network uring the early hours of November 16, 1989, the Salvadoran mili- D tary murdered six Jesuits and two companions at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in San Salvador.