Madison bishop named to military school board

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Madison Bishop Robert Morlino has been appointed to the advisory board of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly known as the School of the Americas (SOA).

The school, based at Fort Benning in Georgia, trains soldiers, police and government officials. SOA Watch, which monitors the institution, alleges some of the school's alumni were involved in a string of human rights abuses in the 1980s and still exploit the people of Latin America.

Defense officials have disputed the group's claims, but SOA Watch stages annual protests at Fort Benning over the school, saying graduates commit civil rights abuses and murders.

Such a rule of institutional responsiblility for alums' actions would have interesting implications for seminaries.

(via Ut Unum Sint)