Samuel Ruiz

Courtesy of Upsidedownworld.org, here's a marvelous commentary by Emma Volonté on the great Samuel Ruiz. To paraphrase an old quip by Trotsky: If there were more men like Ruiz in the catholic church, I'd be a catholic too:

In January 2004, Samuel Ruiz wrote a pastoral letter in which he said: “The question that God puts to us at the end of our existence will be: What side were we on? Whom did we defend? Who did we choose? Questions that nobody, not even the powerful, can escape at the end of their life”.

Amen.