PEPPER PIKE, Ohio - Thirty-five years ago, four churchwoman were abducted, raped and murdered in El Salvador for aiding Salvadorans who had fled their homes in the midst of civil war. The Sisters of ...

Sister Dorothy Kazel was 41 years old when she was abducted, raped and murdered by soldiers in El Salvador 30 years ago today. Her crimes: Working with the poor and defying death threats. Raised ...

Judy Ress won't forget Dorothy Kazel. After Archbishop Oscar Romero was killed in El Salvador by Salvadoran death squads suspected of ties with the government in March 1980, Ress and Kazel saw one ...

CLEVELAND _ Bishop Anthony Pilla’s first official act as spiritual leader of the Diocese of Cleveland was to meet the body of slain missionary Dorothy Kazel at the Cleveland airport on Dec. 6, 1980.

On Dec. 2, 1980, Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU., Jean Donovan, Sr. Maura Clarke, MM, and Sr. Ita Ford, MM were beaten, raped, and murdered by five members of the National Guard of El Salvador. For anyone ...

Like many Catholics, I applauded the news this week that Pope Francis had formally declared Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero a martyr, paving the way for his beatification, the final step before ...

Today is the 30th anniversary of the martyrdom of four American churchwomen who worked among the poor in El Salvador: Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, two Maryknoll Sisters; Dorothy Kazel, an Ursuline ...

One does not have to be a labor economist to know that finding a job that speaks to the very depth of one’s soul is something to be treasured. I found myself thinking of this recently as Ursuline ...

On the night of December 2, 1980, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Kazel, Catholic missionaries from the United States, were kidnapped, beaten, raped, and murdered by a U.S.-backed ...

For years, the families of social worker Jean Donovan and sisters Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel have pressed Salvadoran and U.S. officials to probe deeper into the killings, sure that ...

In the pallid light of dawn on December 3, 1980, a dairyman named Guadalupe Gómez trudged down a lonely dirt road near the village of Santiago Nonualco, El Salvador, off to milk his employer’s cows. A ...

December 2nd was the 28th anniversary of the murder of four American churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980. The best known of these is Jean Donovan, a lay missionary from the Cleveland, Ohio diocese.