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El Salvador’s gangs promise to stop killing during Romero beatification (gee, thanks)
- Church
- Apr 25, 2015
ROME — As El Salvador prepares to celebrate the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero, the criminal gangs that terrorize the country have agreed to a sort of truce: As a gift to the martyr, they’ve promised to suspend killing police and military officers, judges, politicians, and the poor. Romero, who
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In El Salvador, the Church debates whether to make a deal with the devil
- Church
- Apr 9, 2015
Deciding whether to make a deal with the devil is always a dilemma born of desperation, and it seems to be the grim choice facing the Central American nation of El Salvador and its Catholic leadership today. Citing figures from the country’s National Civil Police, media outlets reported on Monday
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A Maryknoll priest recounts Oscar Romero’s path to sainthood
- Church
- Mar 24, 2015
TROY, N.Y. — How many people can say they lived and worked among a saint? Literally. The Rev. John Spain, a Troy native and Maryknoll priest in El Salvador, may soon be one who can. With Tuesday’s anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero on March 24, 1980,
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Oscar Romero will be beatified by August, officials say

Feb 4, 2015

ROME — Beatification of the late Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador will happen “as soon as possible,” a Vatican official said Wednesday, while a former aide to the slain prelate said it will fall between March 24, the anniversary of Romero’s death, and Aug. 15, the feast of the

Pope declares Oscar Romero, hero to liberation theology, a martyr

Church

Feb 3, 2015

ROME — Marking an end to one of the most divisive debates in Catholicism in the past 35 years, Pope Francis has officially declared the late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero a martyr, clearing the way for eventually proclaiming him a saint. A hero to the progressive liberation theology movement in

Vatican panel says Oscar Romero was a martyr

Church

Jan 9, 2015

ROME — A panel of Vatican theologians has ruled that Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, the great hero of Latin America’s progressive liberation theology movement who was shot to death while saying Mass in 1980, is a martyr. The finding removes a major hurdle to declaring Romero a saint,