Filmmakers plan series on El Salvador's civil war priest murders

[Judi Lynn]

Filmmakers plan series on El Salvador's civil war priest murders

December 5, 2014, 10:04 am
Reuters

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - One of the most notorious atrocities of El Salvador's 12-year civil war, the 1989 killing of six Jesuit priests, is to be the subject of a new television series starring Mexican actor Diego Luna, producers said on Thursday.

Focusing on the priests' murders, as well as the 1980 slaying of San Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero, the series "Cortando el Puente" (Cutting the Bridge) will revisit crimes which remain highly sensitive from the bloody war that ended in 1992.

The six priests, five of whom were Spanish, were shot along with a housekeeper and her daughter. A legal battle ensued between El Salvador and Spain, which has tried to extradite a group of Salvadoran soldiers accused of committing the murders.

Romero was gunned down after he had spoken out about rights abuses by the country's U.S.-backed army during the war. This year the Vatican said it had lifted a ban on Romero's beatification after harboring concerns he had Marxist views.

The series, which has a $3 million budget and is set to begin filming in El Salvador in the second half of 2015, will be based on reporting by a journalist who covered the war.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. A Marxist can't be a saint?

Romero was gunned down after he had spoken out about rights abuses by the country's U.S.-backed army during the war. This year the Vatican said it had lifted a ban on Romero's beatification after harboring concerns he had Marxist views. --from the OP (my emphasis)

But guess who CAN be a saint? The one that really sticks in my craw. The 5th Century "patriarch of Alexandria"--"canonized" by the Catholic Church--"Saint" Cyril, who was responsible for the murder and skinning alive of the last philosopher of the Alexandria Library, Hypatia, a renowned and revered lecturer on mathematics and philosophy, a passionate educator, beloved by her students who included at least one Catholic bishop (Synesius of Ptolemais).

"Canonization" means that the Church literally holds the dead saint to be in Heaven! That butcherer! That bastard, who went on to taint the entire Christian movement with rightwing fanaticism, pogroms, censorship, police state power and hatred of women, among other things. A saint!

But no, not a Marxist! Well, that was Benedict, and they've taken it back. But they haven't de-sainted Cyril, and, until they do, there is no question that the Catholic Church promotes hatred of women. The male priesthood needs to don "sackcloth and ashes" and get down on their knees in repentance for their sins against women, starting with that one.

I don't imagine that Bishop Romero would give a damn, one way or another, about "sainthood," and he would laugh at their reason for banning him from the honor, then rescinding it. There are many kinds of Marxist, and it is no sin to be a Marxist, and, these days, it might well take a true saint to advocate "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." (Didn't Jesus say that?) But sainthood vs. non-sainthood, and Marxist vs., oh, say, Capitalist, are all so incredibly irrelevant to the REAL evils and sufferings in the world, and the extreme damage to the earth itself, by the greedy and the heartless. Such nonsense the Church concerns itself with, instead of repenting the sins of its self-worshiping male hierarchy! Though, actually, declaring "saints" is not nonsense; it is yet another abuse of power.

[Judi Lynn]

2. That seemed strange to read for me, too. Romero was completely involved in the life of the people

of his country. He gave everything he had to his beliefs. He was far too busy, far too concerned in his life to have the time to sit around questioning the beliefs of other people. He was trying to urge people to stop the torture, stop the killing.

When people live in completely insulated surroundings, safe from everything but meteor strikes, they seem to lose touch with reality, go bat shit, and right-wing!

Romero was surrounded by suffering among those he had loved and cared for for years. He worked so hard to protect them, to appeal to the sensibility of their fellow countrymen, begging them to listen to a higher voice, to remember a higher law.

He knew he was going to be murdered and he kept on going. Nothing but courage and love in that righteous human being.