There is so much we could say about our precious Ernesto Cardenal. One is his influence on so many people. Jewish liberation theologian Marc Ellissays of the influence of liberation theologians and Cardenal:
“As a Jew, after Auschwitz and as I began to understand what Israel has done and is doing to the Palestinian people, my encounter with Christian theologies of liberation was a God-send. It was less its Christian focus; I encountered there a human hope, that through struggle, I, with others, could become a sign of hope in the world… On the day Cardenal died, decades after I first read the Gospel in Solentiname – just by chance? – I finished reading the correspondence between Cardenal and his mentor, Thomas Merton. Their correspondence ended in 1968, just before his travel to Asia and his death, with Merton’s appeal to the Pope to allow him to teach and live in Solentiname. The letters between them are wonderful and intimate and they reminded me again of the possibility of new beginnings within the struggle for justice. Though I never met Cardenal, I feel like he has accompanied me on my Jewish journey, at the end of ethical Jewish history. Here I experience an interfaith solidarity that may bear fruit in the future. Perhaps even now.”
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