Mystic of liberation: A portrait of Pedro Casaldaliga

This report of Cabestrero's interviews with the good Bishop was first published in the seventies in Spanish and then published by the excellent and courageous and prophetic Catholic Printing House Orbis Books in 1981. Please pursue subsequent events in the life of this humble, holy and unjustly persecuted Bishop in the Orbis collection of his writings entitled In Pursuit of the Kingdom. This present volume, Mystic of Liberation (originally entitled less gloriously in Spanish Dialogues in Mato Grosso with Pedro Casaldaliga), presents the full promise and hope of that earlier time. The photographs which truly illustrate the words are spectacular. I regret the images I uploaded here have mixed the back cover with the front cover; it must be a phenomenom of alphabetized file names. Yet on the cover you find the classic photo of the good and holy Bishop bearing his peasant's straw hat in place of his miter. The prefatory poem by Father Ernesto Cardenal is especially revelatory of the violent oppression of the poor in those days and places, an oppression which continues now in Fallujah and New Orleans and so many places around the globe at the ends of wealthy arms-owners. Read this book for courage, consolation, comfort, hope and peace. And at this price you cannot afford NOT to have this book. There are no more excuses left.