Higher Standards for Higher Education: The Christian University and Solidarity
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Brackley, Fr. Dean S.J.
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2000-01-01
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By Dean Brackley, S.J.|Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"|Fr. Brackley, S.J. gave this talk at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska on November 4, 1999.|The remains of six Jesuit priests killed here last week were placed today in a chapel crypt underneath a portrait of slain archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero amid mounting evidence of a campaign of intimidation against liberal members of the clergy.|In a nearly three-hour funeral mass on the campus of the Jose Simeon Canas University of Central America, where the priests were killed at their dormitory by what witnesses described as at least 20 men in military uniforms, church leaders eulogized the dead colleagues as champions of peace, social justice and the poor. The chapel is named for Romero, assassinated in 1980.|The Rev. Jose Maria Tojeira, head of the Jesuit order in Central America, sounded a defiant note when he declared: "They haven't murdered the Society of Jesus, nor have they murdered the {Jesuit-run} University of Central America." The remark was greeted by sustained applause from the 1,500 people attending. Among those present were President Alfredo Cristiani, leftist politician Ruben Zamora and U.S. Ambassador William Walker.|At the same time, a number of priests involved in relief work with the poor, including American Jim Barnett, a Dominican priest, reported having received death threats in recent days, and the Salvadoran Treasury Police continued to raid churches, confiscating books and papers.|The reports followed the publication Saturday of a letter from Salvadoran Attorney General Mauricio Eduardo Colorado to Pope John Paul II warning bishops who promote "the church of the poor" to leave the country for their personal safety.
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