http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/10/jesuit-father-dean-brackley-honored-by-university-of-san-francisco-for-work-in-el-salvador/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2011/10/jesuit-father-dean-brackley-honored-by-university-of-san-francisco-for-work-in-el-salvador/comment-page-1/#comment-7629 Thomas H. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:48:11 +0000 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=4353#comment-7629 Without going into all the details about the administrative and related machinations in El Salvador, starting many years ago, anyone offering to give a voice to the poor and to teach Christian values in that part of the Americas at the time deserves recognition. The conflict(s) in El Salvador that placed the poor and rural people in that country in harms way, especially from a moral standpoint, during the 1980's and 1990's and thereafter, and even up to the present time, called for temperance in many affairs that was at least in part realized by the work of Archbishop Romero (see http://kellogg.nd.edu/romero/pdfs/Biography.pdf for more background on this) and his colleagues, including jesuits and volunteers. It is also important to state these people of the Jesuit order, in their good works, did not respond to the "will - to power" that some Salvadoran peasants and other people asserted at the time, and made their ministries always a first priority; also a point on Fr. Brackley and others that needs be recognized. Without going into all the details about the administrative and related machinations in El Salvador, starting many years ago, anyone offering to give a voice to the poor and to teach Christian values in that part of the Americas at the time deserves recognition. The conflict(s) in El Salvador that placed the poor and rural people in that country in harms way, especially from a moral standpoint, during the 1980′s and 1990′s and thereafter, and even up to the present time, called for temperance in many affairs that was at least in part realized by the work of Archbishop Romero (see http://kellogg.nd.edu/romero/pdfs/Biography.pdf for more background on this) and his colleagues, including jesuits and volunteers. It is also important to state these people of the Jesuit order, in their good works, did not respond to the “will – to power” that some Salvadoran peasants and other people asserted at the time, and made their ministries always a first priority; also a point on Fr. Brackley and others that needs be recognized.

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