“They killed our priest,” the elderly woman sobbed, on her knees and absorbed in grief. “He was my priest, our priest. . . . He spoke our language.” The people of the remote Guatemalan village of Santiago Atitlan had come out to their church as soon as they heard the news. Armed gunmen had entered the rectory in the middle of the night, where they had beaten their missionary priest, Fr. Stanley Rother, and shot him dead.