A pedagogy of forgivenessBishop Gregorio Rosa Chávez, auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, visited the offices of National Catholic Reporter on Friday March 28. He talked with the editorial staff on a wide range of issues. One of his topics was the development of Catholic Social Teaching in the Latin American context. Helping the bishop with translation is Elly Jordan of the
Share Foundation. (Photos by Teresa Malcolm.)
Episode 1: A new approach to politics and economics (8 min.)
Bishop Chávez said that last May Pope Benedict asked the Latin American bishops to realize the vision of
Populorum Progressio, the 1967 social encyclical of Pope Paul VI. Evangelization, he said, is to build a culture of life. To do this, four rights must be respect: 1) the right to life, 2) the right to dignified human rights 3) the right to true democracy, participative democracy and 4) the right to believe and to hope. This talk of vision and evangelization led Rosa Chávez to talk of prophets and slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.
Episode 2: A pedagogy of forgiveness (8 min.)
Bishop Rosa Chavez was the only person who participated in all the peace talks between the government and rebel groups over five years in the 1980s. NCR editor Tom Roberts asks Bishop Rosa Chávez how the peace efforts succeed and failed. Shortly after the peace accords were signed, the bishop said, Pope John Paul II visited the country. This was also after the assassination of the Archbishop Oscar Romero. “The pope told us bishops, that we must develop pedagogy of forgiveness,” Rosa Chavez said. And that is a vision still yet to be realized.
Value people over profits, bishop urges
By MICHAEL HUMPHREY
Published in NCR May 2, 2008
Kansas City, Mo. -- Salvadoran Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chávez came to Kansas City recently with an all-American message. No, it wasn’t about college sports. It was about the need for solidarity across borders to combat a new breed of violence through which the North afflicts the South.
Solidarity with Latin American countries is more vital than ever, said Rosa Chávez, auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, speaking to a crowd of several dozen leaders in the Kansas City-El Salvador sister-parish movement. “There is only one America. There is no North America and South America. What hurts the people of El Salvador, hurts all of the Americas.”
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Thank you for this
Thank you for this article.
"Value people over profits"
Such an important lesson to learn in this new age.
Perhaps we can take a social lesson from Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein:
Quote:
"It's high time that the idea of success should be replaced with the idea of service."
The more we discover how much we are Loved by God, the more we want to do God's Will