Memento of the Living and the Dead: A First-Person Account of Church Violence and Resistance in Latin America

In Memento of the Living and the Dead Phillip Berryman relates his experiences as a Catholic priest in Panama City starting in 1965 and then after leaving the priesthood to marry in Central America in the late 1970s as conflict and repression rose in Guatemala and El Salvador and the Sandinista revolution overthrew the Somoza dictatorship. Berryman was leading an ecumenical delegation in El Salvador when Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered at the altar and was at the archbishops funeral when it...See More