Dorothy Stang
Born: June 7, 1931
Died: February 12, 2005
Dorothy Stang, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, was killed on February 12, 2005, by two unknown gunmen. She had spent years in Brazil resisting efforts to clear the Amazon, working on sustainable development projects with poor farmers against powerful interests. And she was evidently good at it.
She let God’s grace shine through her so much that the reign of God was threatening to break through, that the poor were going to have good news proclaimed to them, that the oppressed were going to go free. In her, God was going to cast down the proud and lift up the lowly, just as Mary promised in her gospel song.
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God, make me like Sister Dorothy Stang
The death of a nun and activist reminds us that the gospel is a cause worth living for.
The heroic life of Sister Dorothy Stang
Even unto death, Dorothy Stang had no fear in her fight for the poor and the rain forest, and her example inspires us to join the battle.
Image: Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil, CC BY 3.0 br, via Wikimedia Commons
