title: Woman-Killing in Juarez: Theodicy at the Border
author: Rafael Luevano
description: Rafael Luvano is a diocesan priest of Orange County, California, and an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Chapman University in Orange. Formerly rector of Saint John s Seminary College in Camarillo, he also served as the Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs Officer for the Diocese of Orange. He is currently the Catholic chaplain at Chapman University. He is the author of Endless Transforming Love: An Interpretation of the Mystical Doctrine of Saint John of the Cross (Institum Carmelitanum in Rome, 1989) and many articles and book chapters in both Spanish and English.
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  # **Chapter 34**
  
  Sanchez arrived the next morning. After he was ushered into the salon in the
  embassy where Sharon had decided she would meet him alone, she took some time
  to study him. Sanchez underwent the scrutiny patiently. He simply stood before
  her where she sat on a chaise, saying nothing. Patience? she wondered. Or was
  it simply fatalism?
  
  Abruptly, she spoke. "Did you have anything to do with it, Ruy?"
  
  Sanchez began to stiffen. Suddenly angry, Sharon slapped her hands on her
  thighs. "Stop it, Ruy! This is _me._ I don't care about your damned hidalgo
  honor and your solemn vows and your so-called oaths." It was all she could do
  not to grit her teeth. "I've never seen where any of that precious crapand
  that's what it is, craphas kept any of you from butchering anyone you felt
  like. Or committing every other crime in the book."
  
  She lifted her head. "So tell it to _me,_ this time. Just st