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How did a U.S. priest and nun who went to Guatemala to convert the poor to âproperâ Catholicism and to fight communism join a revolutionary movement?
The married couple Thomas and Marjorie Melville explain how they shared the anti-communist views of the U.S. government and the Catholic Church but living among the poor led them to question both institutionsâ roles in supporting inequality in Guatemala. At the time of the bookâs publication, 1970, the two were in jail as part of the Catonsville Nine. They, along with other Catholics, broke into a Maryland draft board and poured homemade napalm onâŠ
From Theresa's list on Catholics who joined revolutionary movements in Central America.
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