For me and most of my college peers, those conflicts were remote and hard to understand. I learned about conflicts taking place in Central America. I was a college student in Durham, North Carolina, and learning at last about the world we inhabited, pushing back the boundaries so that more and more of this very real world was revealed to me. Our parents, who shared our ambivalence, did not insist.Ī few years later, the boundaries of my world had expanded significantly. Once we had advanced to high school, we saw little reason to continue going to Mass. The arcana of theology were of course completely beyond us. Perhaps the priests made too little effort, or felt little need to make the effort, to address people our age more likely, we made too little effort ourselves. It meant sitting through homilies-often boring ones, I’m sorry to say, and almost always remote from our experience. To me, and to my siblings, church was a place one went to fulfill obligations to parents and grandparents: First Communion, Confirmation, high holy days. In 1971, when Gustavo Gutiérrez published A Theology of Liberation, I was eleven years old and living in small-town Florida. Reimagining Accompaniment: A Doctor's Tribute to In the following chapter, Farmer tells us about his introduction to Gutiérrez and how his writing came to provide the intellectual framework for PIH’s work. The two men have co-authored a book, In the Company of the Poor, in which they discuss their shared commitment to a “theology of accompaniment”-a lifelong practice of not only walking with people who are poor, but working to change the conditions that keep them poor. The phrase-which means to make an option for poor people and to work on their behalf-is articulated in the liberation theology of Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest and longtime mentor and friend to PIH co-founder Dr. Partners In Health’s mission is to provide a “preferential option for the poor” in health care.
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