Romero, Oscar

Remembering Oscar Romero in a Time of War

March 23, 2011
Remembering Oscar Romero in a Time of War

By Scott Wright On March 24, we commemorate the anniversary of the martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero. One day before, President Barack Obama will visit Romero’s tomb in the cathedral of San Salvador, to conclude his first visit to Latin America and El Salvador. It is an occasion that lends itself to reflection –...
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Let Us Not Be Disheartened!

December 19, 2010
Let Us Not Be Disheartened!

Christmas: With Christ, God has injected himself into history. With the birth of Christ, God’s reign is now inaugurated in human time. On this night, as every year for twenty centuries, we recall that God’s reign is now in this world and that Christ has inaugurated the fullness of time. His birth attests that...
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Lenten Vigil to Commemorate the Martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero

February 23, 2009

The great need today is for Christians who are active and critical, who don’t accept situations without analyzing them inwardly and deeply. We no longer want masses of people like those who have been trifled with for so long. We want persons like fruitful fig trees, who can say yes to justice and no...
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Archbishop Oscar Romero: Lenten Words

October 17, 2008

Archbishop Oscar Romero Let us not think that our dead have gone away from us. Their heaven, their eternal reward, makes them perfect in love; they keep on loving the same causes for which they died. Thus, in El Salvador the force of liberation involves not only those who remain alive, but also all...
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