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...However, you made it sound like our decision was a reaction to "tough government measures" of a few days' duration. It was not. It was our response to a permanent situation of violence to human nature that can be seen in any set of statistics on Guatemala giving the infant-mortality rate, life expectancy, literacy, average income, distribution of the land, etc. You say we have broken the rule of noninterference in political affairs, as U.S. missionaries in a foreign country, siding with the rebels. We sided with the poor-the rebels also happen to be oh their side...
Perhaps the best known of the U.S. missionary societies, the Maryknollers have been sending priests and nuns to serve in remote villages of Guatemala since 1943, currently have about 100 stationed there. Until recently, their number included Sister Marian Peter, 39, a sprightly specialist in catechism and social work who organized a cadre of followers among wealthy Catholic students at Guatemala's two major universities. During vacations, she frequently took them to work and study at impoverished missions run by two priest friends: Boston-born Maryknollers Thomas Melville, 37, and his brother Arthur...
...tough government measures taken to put down the uprising, decided on religious grounds to side with the rebels. So did the nun and her two priest friends, who met one day in November with a guerrilla leader in the village of Escuintla. When the Maryknoll superior in Guatemala, Father John M. Breen, heard of the meeting, he ordered the missionaries to stay out of politics or return to the order's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y. Instead, Sister Marian and the Melville brothers flew to Miami and then apparently doubled back to Mexico-where they have since been joined...
...Maryknoll fathers suspended the Melvilles from their right to say Mass or hear confessions. More fortunate was the Melvilles' close friend, Father Blase Bonpane, 38, whose house in Guatemala City they frequently used for meetings with Sister Marian and her students. Threatened with a similar suspension, he returned home for reassignment to Hawaii, but he remains sympathetic to the rebel cause. "No one wants violence," he says, "but when 2% of the people own 80% of the arable land, and a right-wing army shoots reformers on the spot as so-called Communists, then violence is already institutionalized...