Jesuits Remain in Mexican Mountains After Priests’ Killings

AP ^ | 9/5/22 | Fabiola Sanchez

[marshmallow]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two months after a pair of Jesuit priests were killed in a remote mountain community in northern Mexico, the suspected killer remains on the loose and townspeople are frightened, but the religious order says it is not leaving.

The killings of Javier Campos and Joaquín Mora, as well as a tourism guide they tried to shelter, stirred anger in Mexico and the Roman Catholic Church. Frustration has grown with failure to capture the suspect, the alleged leader of a local drug gang, José Portillo Gil, alias “El Chueco,” or “The Crooked One.”

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Killing Jesuits? It seems to me that El Chueco is a defender of the Faith, blazing a trail toward sainthood.

[Songcraft]

Wait a minute -- El Chucky -- that ain't that new King Charley 3, is it?

[allendale]

Sadly the Jesuit order has devolved into an unspeakable cabal. Suffice it to say Father Martin will not be sent to replace those slain Jesuits. Nevertheless those men died a noble death engaging and ministering people in a place that very few would ever consider going. There was decency and courage at their core.