For Truth Time . . .

The old Spanish adage, Para la Verdad, el Tiempo, para Justicia Dios, may be proving to true yet again. Central America was convulsed with violence during Reagan administration. Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala all suffered mightenly from sectarian violence. Tens of thousands were killed, displaced, tortured. Disgracefully, the United States alined itself with the wealthy and powerful against those seeking democracy and social justice.

Also disgracefully, the Catholic Church in Rome (not Monseñor Romero and other men and women of the cloth who worked to help the disenfranchised, the poor, the maligned, que descansen en paz) also stiffled the voices of social justice within the Latin American Church because it feared communism, ignoring that if it Revolution Theology was arising from its own ranks, it could hardly be anti-religious like the old Soviet block.

Earlier this week, a Spanish Judge flew to interview seven men held prisoner, including a former Guatemalan president, for their role in the genocide that occurred in Guatemala in 1982 and 1983. Specifically, it was part of an ongoing investigation and criminal proceedings for the murder of, among others a priest, who was a Spanish Citizen.

Would our own nation watch over us, seeking justice, even after our deaths . . .