Oscar Romero by
People of God is a brand new series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men have known challenges and weaknesses familiar to most of us, but responded to them in ways that call us to our own forms of heroism. Each of them offers a credible and concrete witness of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day. With the cause for his beatification reportedly moving along rapidly now at the Vatican, this biography of a people's saint traces the events leading up to the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero at a chapel altar in San Salvador and the reverberations of that day in El Salvador and beyond. This in-depth look at Archbishop Romero, the pastor-defender of the poor and great witness of the faith, offers a prism through which to view a Catholic understanding of liberation and how to be a church of the poor, for the poor, as Pope Francis calls us to be.
Romero by
It is twenty-five years since Oscar Romero, the prophetic archibishop of San Salvador, was assassinated while celebrating Mass. In death he joined tens of thousands of his fellow Salvadorans, killed in the conflict that engulfed his small Central American nation. In the years since then, his reputation and significance have only grown. Today the very name Romero invokes the church's costly option for the poor, the gospel challenge to confront injustice, the Christian call to discipleship in a world of conflict, and a new face of holiness for our time. First published in 1989, James Brockman's biography remains the definitive portrait of the modern hero and martyr who became a voice of the voiceless.
The Martyr of el Salvador by
The Martyr of El Salvador: The Assassination of #65533;scar Romero#65533;scar Romero, a respected Catholic priest, called on soldiers, as Christians, to put down their arms and stop carrying out the governments order to strip citizens of the most basic human rights...for this he was assassinated. For over 30 years, his murder has gone unsolved.Who would murder a priest who only wanted to stop the injustice? And more importantly, why is it that, with substantial evidence naming the murderers involved, was nothing done to convict those guilty of murdering the country's beloved archbishop?
Romero House Named after Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador who was murdered for protecting the poor and oppressed.
He has been declared a Servant of God (on the way to Sainthood). He is honored in other Christian traditions (Anglican and Lutheran). He has strong links with the Jesuits. His Archbishop’s motto is Sentire cum Ecclesia (“to feel with the Church”), which comes from Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises—a possible House motto.
There are lots of images of him—both photographic and more artistic—which are both graphic and inspiring.
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez
15 August 1917 - 24 March 1980
Feast Day - 24 March
