The murder in 2005 of an American nun, Sister Dorothy Stang,
focused the world's attention on the plight of poor farmers in the
Brazilian Amazon and their struggles against rapacious developers.
Sister Dorothy had worked in Brazil for forty years. From a
conventional nun in the pre-Vatican II era, she had developed a
keen social conscience and, increasingly, a deep, mystical
commitment to the integrity of Creation. These ideals combined in
her advocacy for the rights of the poor and her defense of the
imperiled rain forest. They also earned her the enmity of
land-grabbing ranchers who repeatedly threatened her. "All I ask,"
she wrote, "is God's grace to help me keep on this journey,
fighting for the people to have a more egalitarian life and that we
learn to respect God's creation."
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