Search
Authors / María de Lourdes López Munguía
María de Lourdes López Munguía is a Franciscan Missionary of Mary from Mexico who now lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is a professional psychologist, trained in accompaniment. She received novitiate formation in Managua, Nicaragua, and ministered in Chile, the United States, Tunisia and Congo. She has shared her life with: people recuperating from drug addiction;…
Will Ecuador's new leftist leader follow the model of Chavez or Lula vis-a-vis the Church?
… were fellow leftists Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Evo Morales of Bolivia and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, along with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. Taken in tandem with Chavez’s recent … prompting official protests and hard feelings. Ortega’s clashes with the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, especially during the early days of the Sandinista Revolution, are by now the stuff of … example, said in a press conference last week that recent election results in Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela amount to a repudiation of Latin America’s status as a “back porch” of …
Paraguayan bishop crosses point of no return on church and politics
… Ernesto Cardenal crossed that line by serving as Minister of Culture under the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and was publicly rebuked by Pope John Paul II during his 1983 trip to the country. …
Ita, Maura, Dorothy and Jean
… of Maryknoll had spent years in Chile; Sr. Maura Clarke also of Maryknoll had spent years in Nicaragua; and Sr. Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline nun from Cleveland worked in El Salvador. The … is evil. That's what we have to wrestle and fight against." Sr. Maura Clarke spent 17 years in Nicaragua working against the U.S.-backed Somozoa dictatorship, before moving to El Salvador only …
In Turkey, fears of an anti-pope backlash
… protest. Such was the case when Sandinista provocateurs tried to shout down the pope in Nicaragua in 1983, for example, or when Orthodox hardliners performed public exorcisms to ward …
Joan Baez, After All These Years
… Farmworkers, and supported dozens of movements for social change, from Poland to Chile to Nicaragua. In the '70s she ventured on a perilous trip to Vietnam, and like Daniel Berrigan and …
Henri Nouwen's Spirituality of Peace
… incline him to slow down. In the 1980s, he joined hundreds of U.S. citizens on the border of Nicaragua and there protested Reagan's contra war. He traveled to Guatemala to support the priest …
The Declaration of Peace
… Butigan. Tens of thousands pledged to oppose then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan's contra war on Nicaragua. And at an appointed time, if the war failed to end, they committed themselves to …