Journalist Penny Lernoux died 30 years ago, Oct 9 1999. During the 1970s she courageously documented two related stories in Latin America: the spread of fascist dictatorships and the transformation of the Catholic Church in response to the Cry of the People (her book title).
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She died at 49 one month after being diagnosed with cancer. At the time she was writing a history of the Maryknoll Srs. (Having been inspired by her work to the path that led me to @OrbisBooks I was proud, after her death, to help complete her final book.) Dying, she wrote:
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“I feel like I’m walking down a new path. It’s not physical fear...rather a sense of helplessness—that I who always wanted to be the champion of the poor am just as helpless—that I must hold out my begging bowl; that I must learn the ultimate powerlessness of Christ...
Oct 8, 2019 · 10:05 PM UTC
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