Oscar Romero Archives

Italian judge latest example of Church’s new test for ‘martyrdom’

Dec 23, 2020

Rosario Livatino, 37 at the time of his death, will become the first Italian anti-mafia judge to be beatified, following in the footsteps of Father Giuseppe “Pino” Puglisi, the country’s best known anti-mafia priest, who was killed in 1993 and beatified shortly after Pope Francis’s election in 2013.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Romero expert says if anybody needs walls, it’s El Salvador

Mar 27, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump has often complained about an “invasion” of migrant caravans acting as a front for criminal groups from Central America, however, one expert has suggested that since many gang members were deported to El Salvador, the home of St Oscar Romero, from the United States, it is they who are in need of Trump’s infamous border wall.

By Elise Harris

Pope urges Central American bishops to embrace Oscar Romero’s legacy

Jan 24, 2019

Speaking to the bishops of Central America in Panama on Thursday, Pope Francis lifted up St. Oscar Romero as a model bishop.

By Inés San Martín

After sainthood for Romero, Salvadorans turn to Rutilio Grande

Oct 20, 2018

Now that St. Oscar Romero has been canonized, Salvadorans have their sights set on sainthood for Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande.

By Christopher White

Pope hails Romero, Paul VI as icons of ‘outward-looking’ Church

Oct 14, 2018

Pope Francis on Sunday hailed new saints Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI as saints vitally engaged with the world who still led lives of radical holiness.

By Christopher White

Romero an icon of pope’s dream of a ‘poor Church for the poor’

Oct 13, 2018

Nearly four decades after her was brutally martyred while celebrating Mass, Pope Francis will canonize El Salvador’s Oscar Romero on Sunday.

By Christopher White

Sunday’s other new saints show holiness isn’t just for celebrities

Oct 11, 2018

If there’s one thing the new crop of saints who will be canonized this weekend have to say about holiness, it’s that being virtuous is not just for heroic, celebrity-like personalities such as Blesseds Oscar Romero or Pope Paul VI, but it is something that everyone, religious and lay alike, can attain.

By Elise Harris

Romero relics to be part of religious freedom Mass in L.A.

Jun 30, 2016

Martyred while saying Mass in 1980 and politically controversial in his day, Blessed Oscar Romero is one of 14 “witnesses to freedom” in the U.S. bishops’ “Fortnight for Freedom” campaign this year, and his relics will be on display July 1 in Los Angeles.

By Rhina Guidos