Frederica mathewes-Green on torture in Romanian prisons

While most of the world is reeling at the ugliness perpetrated by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib, I have had the feeling I have seen it all before.

Rather, I have heard it – from a white-haired Romanian priest who suffered in the dread Pitesti prison outside Bucharest. Father George Calciu now is pastor of a small white-clapboard church in northern Virginia and my spiritual father.