Remembering the Little Bishop Who Roared

By Rose Marie Berger
Jan 25, 2011
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Retired Catholic Bishop Samuel Ruíz Garcia, known as the champion of the poor and indigenous in southern Mexico, died January 24 of complications from diabetes. He was 86.

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