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Four Liberals in a Profound Moment<\/p><\/div>\n

The Winona Daily News reports <\/a>Minnesota St. Mary’s University Trustees have presented Pope Francis with an award.<\/p>\n

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An Argentinian pope has joined a Guatemalan bishop as the second recipient of the Signum Fidei Award from Saint Mary\u2019s University \u2014 created in memory of an SMU alumni martyred in Central America.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Was this alumnus martyred for the Faith or because he ‘loved the poor?’\u00a0 Oh, right! Same thing.<\/p>\n

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SMU President William Mann, along with SMU trustees Mary Burrichter and Sandra Simon, presented Pope Francis \u2014 personally \u2014 with the award following the pope\u2019s weekly general audience in St. Peter\u2019s Square April 15.<\/p>\n

The Signum Fidei \u2014 Sign of the Faith \u2014 Award is bestowed in recognition of extraordinary service to the vulnerable and marginalized members of society and work that promotes human solidarity. The award presented to the pope is in the form of a bronze bust of Brother James Miller, a SMU alumni and member of the Christian Brothers who in 1982, while serving as a missionary in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, was gunned down by three unidentified gunmen while repairing a wall at the mission school.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They never know who did it, but they always know why.<\/p>\n

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Miller met his death serving the poor, the marginalized, the forgotten, Mann said. \u201cThis pope seems to be \u2014 in a major way \u2014 reaching out to those populations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What is a marginalized population anyway?\u00a0 Doesn’t it just mean liberal?\u00a0 And if some people are forgotten, why do they get remembered so much?<\/p>\n

When is the pope going to reach out to a Catholic?<\/p>\n

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Mann said that as he explained to the pope who James Miller was and what he had done, Francis reached out to touch the bronze and blessed it \u2014 the Latin American pope very aware of the situation at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an incredible experience,\u201d Burrichter said of her meeting with Pope Francis. \u201cHe came up to us,\u201d she said, \u201c Brother William spoke to him in Spanish … He held my right hand. He gave us his blessing, then said to us in English, \u2018Pray for me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe seemed to be a very gentle, a very kind man.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Really?\u00a0 What about this<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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  The Winona Daily News reports Minnesota St. Mary’s University Trustees have presented Pope Francis with an award. An Argentinian pope has joined a Guatemalan bishop as the second recipient of the Signum Fidei Award from Saint Mary\u2019s University \u2014 created in memory of an SMU alumni martyred in Central America. Was this alumnus martyred …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[242,243,244,241,81,240],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brother-james-miller","tag-guatemala","tag-liberals","tag-marginalized","tag-pope-benedict","tag-st-marys-university"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}