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On February 3, 2015, Pope Francis declared Archbishop Oscar Romero a martyr of the
Church, and recently, on October 14, 2018, the Pope canonized Archbishop Oscar
Romero.
Last year in August, a group of professors from General Theological Seminary (GTS)
visited the chapel, La Divina Providencia, the place where Oscar Romero was
I recall saying to the group visiting the place: This is the chapel where Archbishop Oscar
Romero of the Americas was killed, and a nun there corrected me by saying: “No, the
Recuerdo haberle dicho al grupo que visitaba el lugar: esta es la capilla donde
Indeed, St. Oscar Romero has touched many people all around the world.
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First, as the defender of the poor. Second, as defender of human rights, and third as
Primero, como defensor de los pobres. Segundo, como defensor de los derechos
San Romero fue la voz profética que hablaba la verdad ante el poder.
the Rev. Dr. Juan Vicente Chopin, states that Oscar “Romero was killed for his love of
justice and his deep love for the weakest. His defense of human rights is not simply
el reverendo Dr. Juan Vicente Chopin, dice que Oscar “Romero fue asesinado por
su amor a la justicia y su profundo amor por los más débiles. Su defensa de los
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Just to make a point, in the recent presidential elections campaign in El Salvador, the
candidate of ARENA, Mr. Carlos Calleja put to the question the reports made by the
and the finding of the Vatican that accused the founder of the ARENA party, Roberto
It appears that the canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero did not sit well with some
Note that the ARENA party lost its bid for the presidency of the country.
Parece que la canonización del Arzobispo Oscar Romero no se sentó bien con
The reality in El Salvador has not changed significantly since Archbishop Oscar
Romero’s assassination in 1980. Currently, there is a Social War in which poor people
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Arzobispo Oscar Romero en 1980. Actualmente, hay una Guerra Social en la que
St. Oscar Romero’s voice is still needed today to accompany the poor and
Todavía se necesita la voz de San Oscar Romero para acompañar a los pobres y
Brothers, you are from our own people, you kill your own peasant brothers and before
an order to kill that a man gives, the Law of God must prevail that says: DO NOT KILL
... No soldier is obliged to obey an order against the Law of God ... An immoral law,
nobody has to fulfill it ... It is time for you to recover your conscience and to obey your
conscience rather than the order of sin ... The Church, defender of the rights of God, of
the Law of God, of human dignity, of the person, can not remain silent before so much
abomination. We want the Government to take seriously that the reforms are useless if
they are dyed with so much blood ... In the name of God, then, and in the name of this
suffering people whose cries rise to the heavens every day more tumultuous, I ask you,
I beg you, I order you in the name of God: Stop the repression ...!
Ley de Dios que dice: NO MATAR… Ningún soldado está obligado a obedecer
una orden contra la Ley de Dios… Una ley inmoral, nadie tiene que cumplirla… Ya
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serio que de nada sirven las reformas si van teñidas con tanta sangre… En
nombre de Dios, pues, y en nombre de este sufrido pueblo cuyos lamentos suben
hasta el cielo cada día más tumultuosos, les suplico, les ruego, les ordeno en
Before his death, Romero is believed to have said to the Mexican newspaper Excelsior:
“I have often been threatened with death. I must tell you, as a Christian, I do not believe
in a death without resurrection. If am killed, I shall arise again in the Salvadoran
people...
“Muchas veces me han amenazado de muerte. Debo decirles que, como cristiano,
salvadoreño ...
Brothers and sisters, St. Oscar Romero is a Christian example for us to follow to
emulate Jesus.