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Sr. Dorothy Stang: Walking with the Landless Poor in Brazil

October 7, 2009
Sr. Dorothy Stang: Walking with the Landless Poor in Brazil

By Art Kubick   Two Biographies, a Film Documentary, and a Radio Documentary   The Cross. At the heart of each settlement established by the MST (Movimento dos Sem Terra, The Landless Movement) in Brazil stands a cross, erected by the people as a sign that this for them is their piece of the...
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Disturbing the Peace: The Story of the Movement to Close the SOA

October 25, 2008

Disturbing the Peace: The Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and the Movement to Close the School of the Americas by James Hodge and Linda Cooper DISTURBING THE PEACE (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2004). 244 pages. $20.00 original paperback. ISBN: 1-57075-434-9 Reviewed by Renny Golden Renny Golden teaches at Northeastern University in Chicago. She is...
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Cancer in the Body Politic: Diagnosis and Prescription for an America in Decline

October 16, 2008

CANCER IN THE BODY POLITIC: Diagnosis and Prescription for an America in Decline By Peter D. Mott, M. D., EPICA 2007 Reviewed by Malcolm Bell Back when President Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” I looked around for a good empire.  No luck.  After all, what’s the point in having an empire...
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Getting the Poor Down from the Cross

October 16, 2008
Getting the Poor Down from the Cross

    Getting the Poor Down from the Cross Excerpted from a book by Jon Sobrino, 2007 EATWOT (Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians)   The centrality of the poor is what first came to my mind when I saw the book’s cover. It suggested to me that “gloria Dei vivens pauper” can serve...
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