Fr Larry Rosebaugh, an Oblate priest, was shot and killed on May 18 2009 by masked gunmen in Guatemala. He had spent his life among people on the margins. Imprisoned for 20 months for destroying draft files in Milwaukee. He lived among the homeless, scrounging in dumpsters for
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his daily bread, scarcely distinguishable from those he served. Arrested in Brazil while ministering to street people. Imprisoned again for broadcasting tapes of Romero to Salvadoran troops training at Ft Benning’s School of the Americas.
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He spent his last years in Guatemala ministering to young people battling AIDS, when his superior told him it was time to come home. He never made it.
