Pacifist Jesuit Verses Georgetown Universtity

Fr. John Dear, S.J.

Last week, some of us learned that Georgetown University appointed the former president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, to a teaching post at its Walsh School of Foreign Service. Uribe, who is linked to paramilitaries that slaughtered thousands of innocents and who befriended drug traffickers, bringing them into the political mainstream, is being named Georgetown’s “Distinguished Scholar in the Practice of Global Leadership.” He began, Sept. 8.

Apparently neither the university president nor the faculty nor the Jesuits have been apprised that lawyers are working to bring charges against Uribe at The Hague for human rights violations. 

Georgetown might just as well have invited the Philippines’ Marcos, Nicaragua’s Somoza or Liberia’s Charles Taylor to teach. I shouldn’t be surprised. Georgetown in particular has a long history of supporting U.S. warmaking. It has taken millions from the Pentagon, trained thousands of young Catholics in its ROTC program, hired Henry Kissinger, welcomed the person who ordered the assassination of Romero, and supported warmakers from the Shah of Iran to Ronald Reagan.

Link (here) to the full post by Fr. John Dear, S.J. at the blog entitled, Jesus Radicals.