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Carlos X. Colorado

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  • Romero centennial prompts us to look at 100 years that marked the Church

    Romero centennial prompts us to look at 100 years that marked the Church

    Romero’s centennial coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions at Fatima, and it is useful to take Fatima as a guidepost to situate Romero’s life in the life of the Church.  Indeed, the major thematic set points in the Fatima message – the world’s wars and the church’s sufferings in these conflicts – would define Romero’s life. 

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  • Meet the New Martyrs—same as the Old Martyrs?

    Meet the New Martyrs—same as the Old Martyrs?

    Is the juxtaposition of “the new martyrs” vs. “the old martyrs” in the Church really fair? It suggests that while martyrs used to be killed for hatred of the faith, they now die for “odium amoris” and other formulations of the canon law requirements for martyrdom. It may simply be that the “New Martyrs” seem “new” to us because of the novelty that their martyrdoms happened in the cultural context of our modern times.

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