A Lay Catholic Missionary in Honduras

I’m not what you would call well-versed in Honduran politics and history. But then again, neither are you. If you think you are because you’ve read someting in the last 48 hours from some journal written by ideologues and designed to feed you your opinions on stuff you actually know nothing about, then welcome to the world of pseudo-knowledge.

Meanwhile, I continue to maintain that you and I know basically nothing about Honduras if you are an average Westerner. However, we can get bits and pieces of information if we want to. Here, for instance, is a bit of information from a fine young Catholic woman who is living there and doing mission work. It’s not the definitive story of course. But it has the great advantage of subsidiarity (i.e. it’s written by somebody who is actually there) and it has the further advantage of being written by somebody with no particular ideological dog in the fight.

God protect her, the poor, the weak and the vulnerable from being trampled as the elephants jockey and fight for power. Father, hear and answer our prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen.