Description
In September 1973 a CIA-assisted coup overthrew the democratically-elected president of Chile, ushering in the Pinochet dictatorship. In 1975, Kathleen Osberger, a recent graduate and lay volunteer from Notre Dame, left for Santiago to teach in a Catholic grade school. Upon arrival, she was told a secret: the religious women she would live with sheltered dissidents in the cross-hairs of Pinochet's secret police. Given the ever-tightening vise over the citizenry, brave and prophetic people reached out to protect the dissidents' lives in a world without due process and where detention, torture, disappearance, and death reigned. Soon, Osberger is handed a blindfold, a warrant, and must go on the run.
I Surrender depicts the solidarity of the Chilean people and the transformational role of nuns and priests dedicated to serving the poor, while highlighting the changing and challenged Catholic Church.
Author: Kathleen M. Osberger
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 08/18/2023
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.11w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9781626985476
ISBN10: 1626985472
BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America | South America
- Biography & Autobiography | General
About the Author
Kathleen Osberger earned her BA at the University of Notre Dame, a MA from Maryknoll School of Theology, and an AM from the University of Chicago-School of Social Work Administration. Her life was shaped by volunteer experiences from 1974-76 when she lived in San Miguelito, Panamá; Santiago, Chile; and Chimbote, Perú. In 1987 she began a 17-year relationship with the Maryknoll Lay Missioners as an Instructor in their Orientation to Mission Program. In 1993 she joined the University of Chicago Hospitals--Department of Psychiatry. Her work as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist centered on the issues of trauma and torture. She continues as pro bono therapist at the Marjorie Kovler Center for the Survivors of Torture.