El Salvador Archives

Mercy Sister says murdered Jesuits inspired a new way of being church

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Nov 11, 2019

The murdered Jesuits in El Salvador, whose legacy is being commemorated around the world Nov. 16, the 30th anniversary of their deaths, were known for their academic prowess. But their legacy is much more important in the life of the Church, in the way communities of faith relate to one another, said a Mercy sister who has studied the life of the Salvadoran martyrs.

Murder of Jesuits was marked with horror, but inspired defense of the poor

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Nov 10, 2019

On the morning of Nov. 16, 1989, armed men burst into the Jesuit residence at the University of Central America in San Salvador and shot six Jesuit priests to death. The housekeeper and her teenage daughter were also murdered.

El Salvador archbishop apologizes over priest sex abuse case

Associated Press, Church in the Americas
Nov 4, 2019

El Salvador’s top Catholic cleric apologized Sunday for the alleged sexual abuse by a priest of an unidentified minor 25 years ago.

Cardinal Czerny’s courageous past in El Salvador remembered

Cardinals, Catholic News Service
Nov 3, 2019

It may be 30 years since Cardinal Michael Czerny left the Jesuit-run Central American University in El Salvador, but it’s not a place that has forgotten him.

Confusion arises over TPS for Salvadorans

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Nov 1, 2019

Salvadorans with a special immigration status experienced whiplash in late October when the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, in a video with the Salvadoran president Oct. 28, announced the extension of the program, only to be corrected hours later by the acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Recalling the harrowing trip to and across the border as a child

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Aug 24, 2019

Bessy was 8 and Johnny was 2 when they made the almost 2,000-mile journey from their native El Salvador with their mother, who yearned to have her family reunited.