“Our apologies,
good friends, for the fracture of good order,
the burning of
paper instead of children . . . We could not, so
help us God, do
otherwise . . . thinking of the Land of Burning
Children.”
Daniel
Berrigan S.J.
How far they fall—even Jesuits--into labyrinthine little hells.
You were one of the glorious
exceptions, a glorious atavism—
unsuppressed, cast in steel, like
the Jesuits of the Reductions.
You fought to the end & no holds
barred--for peace of all things.
Wherever you may or may not be, surely
there abides there
no Cardinal Spellman, who, wristing aspergil like a hammer,
sprinkled U.S bombers with the holy water of some other Christ's
War Against
Vietnam.
That alone may be a kind of paradise.
R. I. P. & an easy, blest and breathless rest.
E. A. Costa
E. A. Costa May 6, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua
