He’d Never Learn

Our main source was The Shepherd Who Didn’t Run by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda. Note that this story takes place at the height of the confusion following the Second Vatican Council, so not everything that happens is necessarily in line with the practice of the Church. Bl. Stanley Rother is on the road to canonization because he was a man of personal holiness who knew that his first duty (after his duty to God) was to his flock.

The Indians he served were the Tz’utujil people.

Clearly for the movie you would cast Charlton Heston

Fr. Stanley Francis Rother (Padre Francisco to his parishioners) baptizing a child in Guatemala

Bl. Rother with children at the mission