October 26, 2023 — Decades before Virginia Senator Tim Kaine ran for vice president in 2016, he spent a year ministering alongside Jesuits in the country of Honduras. This experience changed his life forever.
Even though Senator Kaine was in Honduras in 1980 and 1981, he still talks about his time there as if he had just returned yesterday. It was the experience in Honduras that exposed him to the horrors of poverty and led him to pursue a career in public interest law and then politics. Host Mike Jordan Laskey asked Senator Kaine about his time in Honduras and how his faith influences his public service.
After the conversation with Senator Kaine, stick around for more context on the Jesuits and Honduras. Harrison Hanvey, who works in the Jesuit Conference’s Office of Justice and Ecology, has just returned from a trip to Honduras, where he was part of a delegation marking the 40th anniversary of the disappearance and death of the Jesuit missionary American, Father Guadalupe Carney. Harrison’s stories provide useful context for Senator Kaine’s experience.
Discover Senator Kaine’s stay in Honduras.
Learn more about Fr. Guadalupe Carney, SJ.
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