Maryknoll Catholic Mission in Peru, 1943-1989: Transnational Faith and Transformations

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book has taken a long time and benefited from the help of many people. The project began when I was a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where Eric Van Young was an outstanding mentor. His knowledge and critiques made me push the boundaries of a narrowly focused study by encouraging me to contextualize Maryknoll’s experience in Peru in an examination of the missionaries ’ U.S. origins. Richard Madsen inspired me and reminded me that I should try to tell a good story. George Lipsitz introduced me to the history of American culture and ethnicity and the Great Depression ’s defining role in immigrants’ lives. Michael Bernstein, Dain Borges, Christine Hunefeldt, Misha Kokotovic, and Ken Serbin provided insights and critiques. I was fortunate to be part of an outstanding cohort of graduate students at UCSD, who became interlocutors and friends. A writing group with Eric Boime, Christina Jimenez, Alberto Loza, Luis Murillo , Javier Villa Flores, and Greg Rodriguez introduced me to new literature and broadened the scope of my research. Roderick Ferguson, Gabriela Soto-Laveaga, Adam Warren, Sarah Shrank,Tamera Marko, and Angela Vergara helped in different ways during the years that this project was “in process.” Special thanks to my close friend, Christina Jimenez, who listened to me work through ideas and struggled with me as I wrote. Maryknoll Catholic missionaries made this work possible in every way. Despite uncertainty about my research and conclusions, Maryknoll as an institution and its current and former missionaries shared time, knowledge, and documentation with me. Sister Mary Grace ix Krieger, director of the Maryknoll mission archive in 1995 when I started the research, literally opened the sisters’ home to me. She arranged for me to stay at the convent, introducing me to convent culture and to some of the extraordinary women of Maryknoll. Sister Mary Grace’s example and friendship remain among the nicest benefits I have received through my research. Father William D. McCarthy, Maryknoll historian and missioner to Peru, was among the first people with whom Sister Mary Grace put me in contact. Father McCarthy shared enthusiasm, a breadth of knowledge, extensive documentation, and mission interviews. I am saddened by his passing but will remember his generosity and quiet sense of humor. Ellen Pierce, current director of the Maryknoll archive, and Jennifer Halloran, photo archivist, have responded immediately to my questions and been consistently helpful. Maryknoll missionaries also opened their centers in Peru to me, sometimes giving me a place to stay. Many clergy and lay missionaries shared with me their mission ideals, their first experiences, and their current outlook. Fathers Robert Hoffman, Michael Briggs, Curt Cadorette , Charlie Cappel, Raymond Finch, Steve Judd, James Madden, and Gerard McCrane and Sisters Rose Dominic, Rose Timothy, Patricia Ryan, and Aurelia Atencio provided special insights into Maryknoll in Peru. Inocente Salazar, a former missionary, generously shared with me his unpublished manuscript describing his mission in Puno. Lay missionaries Deidre Savino and Ed Mauer provided friendship and support. Diego Irarrázaval of the Instituto de Estudios Aymaras (IDEA) granted access to the institute’s extensive collection of work on Puno. Irarrázaval also arranged for me to study Aymara at IDEA with Santiago Mendoza and Juan Mejilla, who graciously shared their knowledge of language, culture, and local politics with me. Juan Mejilla allowed me to rent his home in the Aymara community of Cutini Capilla. Although it is not described in this book, my experience in Cutini Capilla defined my interpretation of my interviews and archival materials . It also led me to reinterpret my life. I will always be grateful to this community for allowing me to stay with them for a time and for introducing me to some of the beauty and pain of life in the Andes. In Lima, studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú introduced me to scholarship by Peruvian intellectuals. Jeffrey Klaiber, x Acknowledgments S.J., introduced me to Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, where a small supportive staff granted me access to a wealth of sources about the Catholic Church in Peru. Catalina Romero de Iguiñiz shared her time and extensive knowledge of the Catholic Church and its contribution to promoting social justice in Peru. Manuel Glave introduced me to the extensive literature by Peruvian scholars on Andean peasants . Finally, the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), where I was an affiliated...