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Don t. Don t wait for the churches to speak out against such violence. We have seen enough of their vacillation to know that for us this would be a cop-out.
Sad to say, the same challenge facing Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero before he was assassinated faces us. And we must have the courage and honesty to act, like him, in placing ourselves where the battle rages:
"A church that doesn t provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn t unsettle, a word of God that doesn t get under anyone s skin, a word of God that doesn t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed, what kind of gospel is that?
We cannot avoid the challenge; it is up to us. We have to supply what is lacking in the institutional church.
There is hope. As St. Augustine pointed out 1,600 years ago:
"Hope has two children. The first is anger at the way things are. The second is courage to do something about it.
With those two, well, I think we can. Yes we can.
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