Another Remembrence Day

In a week when our complicity in evil in Afghanistan is finally coming to light, it is well to recall the twenty year anniversary of another crime against humanity: the murder of six Salvadoran priests and two of their helpers on November 16, 1989 by U.S. backed Salvadoran death squads.

Catholic Anarchy offered the following quote from one of the murdered priests, Ignacio Ellacuria, SJ:

The developed world is not at all the desired utopia, even as a way to overcome poverty, much less to overcome injustice.

Indeed, it is a sign of what should not be and of what should not be done. We must turn this sinful history upside down, and out of poverty. We must build a civilization in which all can have life and dignity.

It is particularly tragic that governments that provide the strongest support for measures such as torture and murder are usually supported by a particular segment of the church. WWJD indeed.