Annual Event

Romero Days 2024: The Persecuted Church in Central America Then and Now

Fri
Mar
22


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Questions

A discussion with:

Juan Sebastián Chamorro
Former Pre-Candidate for President of Nicaragua
Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow

Todd Walatka
Teaching Professor, Department of Theology
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow

David Lantigua
Co-Director, Cushwa Center
Associate Professor of Moral Theology/Christian Ethics
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow

From anticlericalism to anticommunism, persecution has taken various forms in Central America on the political left and right, often dividing the life of the Church. This discussion of the Church and persecution explores the shifting social-political realities marking the conflicted presence of Catholicism there during the last five hundred years. With the martyrdom of St. Óscar Romero (†1980) providing the focal point of discussion, speakers engage the colonial Mesoamerican past and present-day Nicaragua in view of Romero’s legacy. Historical and contemporary witnesses to human dignity in Central America bear testimony to the enduring yet multifaceted struggle for justice and freedom against abuses of power. Join Todd Walatka and David Lantigua from Theology and Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow Juan Sebastián Chamorro for Romero Days 2024 as they discuss The Persecuted Church in Central America, Then and Now.

This event is presented by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies with cosponsorship by the Department of Theology and the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.