![]() The Bloodaxe reprint of Carolyn Forché’s 1981 collection, The Country Between Us, is timed to coincide with the publication of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, Forché’s memoir of her time in El Salvador as the coup and civil war bathed the country in blood. Modern martyrs at Westminster Abbey: Mother Elizabeth of Russia, Martin Luther King, Óscar Romero and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Photo credit: Wikipedia) On an international stage, he found the courage to speak truth to power and paid the ultimate price for it. Indeed, El Salvador’s Saint Óscar Romero was (is) a personal hero. Aren’t we here for a purpose? Can serving the status quo in a quiet home town be acceptable? Ultimately, I joined my local diocese and started my formation in Rome’s English College but, given that the college’s protomartyr, Saint Ralph Sherwin, paved the way for a further 43 Reformation martyrdoms, there was no doubting the mettle of the humble parish priest. As I contemplated a life of celibacy and obedience, this, the sharpest end of the apostolic mission, was seductive. Their promotional literature was hazy about the number of Jesuit priests active around the world: some were presumed dead, or incarcerated in places where proselytising was illegal. ![]() ![]() ![]() When exploring a vocation to the priesthood in my early twenties, the Society of Jesus was of great personal interest. 20th November, 1581 – Saints Alexander Briant SJ, Edmund Campion SJ and Ralph Sherwin were martyred at Tyburn (Photo credit: Wikipedia) ![]()
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