Publisher's Synopsis
Spanish version of the authors' Mercy without Borders. The lives of Mark and Louise Zwick were turned around by their experience in El Salvador where they had traveled with their young children. As the war and repression began, the witness of Archbishop Oscar Romero in responding to the violence suffered by the people and the witness of the people themselves saved them from despair. Arriving back in the United States, the Zwicks were faced with Central American refugees pouring into the busy streets of Houston. Inspired by Dorothy Day and the mysterious presence of the Lord in the poor, they opened a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality for homeless refugees. They named the house for Juan Diego, to whom Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared. They were not seeking arrest (although this was a real possibility), but understood their work as doing the Works of Mercy, even if this meant resistance to unjust structures-caring eventually for thousands of undocumented immigrants, including the sick and wounded, those who lost their legs under the wheels of the train, and the paralyzed who fell from scaffolds working in Houston. In the Catholic Worker tradition, the Zwicks publish a newspaper, the Houston Catholic Worker, where they share the stories of immigrants, the inspiration of Dorothy Day and Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the political and economic forces which drive people to immigrate. This book is the Zwicks's story, a Catholic Worker story, interwoven with the stories, the joys, hopes, and tragedies of immigrants who have come to Houston. †
