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American Catholic Heroine
16 February 2005L.A. Times stays with the story of Dorothy Stang, the American nun murdered by anti-environmentalist, anti-labor gunmen in Brazil. Good for them. We wrote on Sunday about our frustration that some politically conservative Catholics are ignoring her death. Our post was misinterpreted as an attack on "American Catholics," in general. Not at all. Dorothy Stang was an American Catholic, and to us she's a heroine. Bobbi Burke, a friend of Sister Dorothy's, gives us a little more information in the comments on that post: "Sister Dorothy had the option to return home to the United States, but refused to leave Brazil despite death threats. She always said she was concerned with the safety of the native people there, not with her own welfare; Sister Dorothy was buried in the land where she worked, per her request. She wanted forever to be close to the people and land she loved so much." And commenter Mike Leahy quotes this information from a news story we missed: "A witness said that when two gunmen approached her, she pulled out a Bible and began to read. Her killers listened for a moment, took a few steps back and fired, he said. Coroners said she was shot six times at close range by two guns."
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