‘Justice Still Has Not Been Done Here.’ | Sojourners

‘Justice Still Has Not Been Done Here.’

Jesuit Father Patrick Hyland celebrates Mass at Hospice Divina Providencia where Saint Óscar Romero was murdered on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass. Photo by Jorge Palacios, Jr., courtesy Ignatian Solidarity Network.

When Ryan Medina stepped off the plane in San Salvador, capital city of El Salvador, he felt the thrill of being in a new country. He was eager to meet the fellow pilgrims he’d only known online and excited about the journey ahead. But as their van left the bustling city streets and began the drive to the gravesite of four U.S. churchwomen, the atmosphere shifted.

“I realized we were quite literally retracing the same route these women took after they were picked up from the airport on the night they were ambushed and killed,” said Medina, a teacher at Loyola Blakefield High School near Baltimore, Md.

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