The church in Latin America
has much to say about humanity.
It looks at the sad picture
portrayed by the Puebla conference:
faces of landless peasants
mistreated and killed by the forces of power,
faces of laborers arbitrarily dismissed
and without a living wage for their families,
faces of the elderly,
faces of outcasts,
faces of slum dwellers,
faces of poor children who from infancy
begin to feel the cruel sting of social injustice.
For them, it seems, there is no future –
no school, no high school, no university.
By what right have we cataloged persons
as first-class persons or second-class persons?
In the theology of human nature there is only one class:
children of God.
March 2, 1980
Romero
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