U.N. DECLARES MARCH 24 CONMEMMORATION

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The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution declaring March 24 as International Day of the Right to Truth, in relation to serious violations of Human Rights and Dignity of Victims, in honor of Monseñor Romero. The resolution, proposed by El Salvador, was cosponsored by 45 countries, including all five Central American countries, and others that include Italy, Greece, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and India. The Salvadoran foreign ministry touted the resolution as a fitting tribute to Archbishop Romero, a tireless defender of human rights until his assassination on March 24, 1980.

The U.N. resolution is the latest of various conmemorations of the Romero assassination, which include:

• The Roman Catholic Church's conmemoration of March 24 as Missionary Martyrs' Day. In March 2007, Pope Benedict recognized that the Anniversary of Romero's martyrdom was the reason that the March 24 date was chosen for fasting and prayer for all missionaries who have given their lives for the faith.

• The Church of England recognizes March 24 as the Feast of Óscar Romero and the Martyrs of El Salvador, a recognition that is tantamount to the Roman Catholic process of canonization.

• The Salvadoran congress has declared March 24, National Óscar A. Romero Day, as have many cities around the world, including the City of Los Angeles, in California (USA).

This year, which marks the 30th anniversary of the Romero martyrdom anniversary, the Archbishop has received a number of posthumous tributes, including the Order of the Great Cross from the Central American Parliament. The anniversary itself, earlier in March, was marked by countless liturgical celebrations, including eloquent conmemorations by leading clerics in Britain.

BENEDICTO, VEN

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Cuando el nuevo embajador de El Salvador al Vaticano Manuel Roberto López Barrera, presentó sus credenciales ante el papa en octubre del 2010, el diplomático salvadoreño invitó al pontífice en nombre del presidente Mauricio Funes y de su gobierno a visitar El Salvador. (Il Papa esorta a promuovere la comprensione in Centroamerica [El papa exhorta a promover la comprensión en Centroamérica], Zenit.org, 18 de octubre del 2010.) Aunque el pontífice no dio respuesta inmediatamente a la invitación, ya se está planificando un viaje de Benedicto XVI a la América Latina en el 2011. (El papa Benedicto XVI visitará la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico en 2011, Informe21.com, 30 de septiembre del 2010.) Una visita del papa a El Salvador sería de mucha ventaja para el proceso de beatificación de Mons. Romero.

En primer lugar, una visita del Santo Padre a la tierra de Mons. Romero agilizaría el estudio de la causa para posibilitar que el mismo papa presida sobre la ceremonia de beatificación durante su visita. Si bien es cierto que Benedicto ha hecho su política pastoral no participar personalmente en las beatificaciones, si lo ha hecho cuando se trata de un caso importante como el Cardenal Newman a quien el papa beatificó personalmente durante su recorrido por Gran Bretaña. Como escribe un ilustre comentador católico: “Entre los íconos populares del catolicismo del siglo XX, ningún santo-en-espera se perfila más prominentemente que Óscar Romero.” (John L. Allen, Jr., Romero's sainthood cause [La causa de la santidad de Romero], National Catholic Reporter, 17 de octubre del 2003.) El mismo Benedicto se ha referido a Mons. Romero más que a cualquier otro santo potencial que esté siendo considerado para la canonización por el Vaticano. La visita del papa a la República Dominicana y Puerto Rico está siendo programada para el 11 de agosto, y con el cumpleaños de Mons. Romero el 15 de agosto, la fecha podría ser muy oportuna para el caso.

Aún si la visita del papa no resulta en la beatificación de Romero, el peregrinaje de un segundo pontífice a la Tumba de Mons. Romero sería un gran aval para el obispo mártir y daría un tremendo aporte al buen caminar de la causa. Las visitas de Juan Pablo II a la tumba, fueron “decisivas” para impulsar el proceso, según el teólogo Jon Sobrino: “La fotografía de Karol Woijtila ... rezando ante la tumba de Monseñor Romero ... [es] un testimonio personal entrañable,” y “La postura del Papa nos parece que ha sido decisiva como condición sine qua non para que se inicie y prosiga el proceso”. (Jon Sobrino, El proceso de canonización de Monseñor Romero, Revista ECA, No. 593, marzo de 1998.) Podemos imaginarnos que la figura de Ratzinger postrado ante la Tumba de Romero sería como una afirmación a la feligresía que el proceso de beatificación está seguro y que solo es cosa de esperar el momento oportuno para recibir la noticia que todos esperan.

La memoria de Romero prestaría un buen trasfondo para el gran reto que Benedicto XVI hace al mundo en su carta encíclica CARITAS IN VERITATE (2009). No es un hecho que haya sido ampliamente publicitado, pero el Papa Benedicto tiene palabras tan duras como las de Mons. Romero para los poderosos aferrados a su poder. Recién dijo a los obispos del medio oriente: “Pensemos en las grandes potencias de la historia de hoy”. Luego puntualizó: “pensemos en los capitales anónimos que esclavizan al hombre, que ya no son cosa del hombre, sino un poder anónimo al que sirven los hombres, por el que los hombres son atormentados e incluso asesinados”. Y para no dejar dudas, finalizó denunciando: “Son un poder destructivo, que amenaza al mundo”. (Intervención del Papa durante la primera Congregación General En el Sínodo de los Obispos para Oriente Medio, 11 de octubre de 2010.)

Esta disponibilidad del papa a hablar verdades fuertes con palabras claras se ha ganado la buena escucha de toda la Iglesia. “No hay duda de que las palabras de Benedicto XVI tocan los problemas centrales de nuestra sociedad y apuntan a los caminos adecuados de solución”, dice el jesuita José María Tojeira, rector de la Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (“la UCA”). (José M. Tojeira, El Salvador y Benedicto XVI, DIARIO CO LATINO, 26 de Octubre de 2010.) “El fuerte contenido moral y propositivo de su ... discurso nos invita a citarlo, comentarlo y reflexionarlo”, asevera el religioso y académico. (Id.) “El cristiano, insiste Benedicto XVI, no puede mirar con indiferencia cuando se debilitan exigencias tan primordiales como la equitativa distribución de la riqueza, la honradez en el desempeño de las funciones públicas o la independencia de los tribunales de justicia”. (Id.)

Cuando Benedicto fue mostrado la estatua de Mons. Romero en la Abadía de Westminster en septiembre del 2010, cuentan que preguntó cuando la estatua había sido instalada por la Iglesia Anglicana (respuesta: 1998). Esto deja claro que el papa está consciente del compás del tiempo, y cuando fue preguntado en el 2007 sobre el estado del caso Mons. Romero, respondió diciendo estar a la espera del informe de la comisión correspondiente. Una visita a la tierra del santo sería una buena forma de acortar el plazo de esa espera.

ROMERO’S ‘HOSPITALITO’

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Few places in all of El Salvador are a greater testament to Óscar Romero than the Divine Providence Hospital, known affectionately to Salvadorans as “el Hospitalito” (‘the Little Hospital’). Hospitalito has become “the most venerated site” for pilgrims coming to El Salvador to honor El Salvador’s martyrs. (James Hodge, Sacred Sites: Spiritual pilgrims flock to the places in El Salvador where modern-day martyrs were slain, THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, December 26, 2001.) It was here that Archbishop Romero was martyred, saying Mass in the hospital chapel on March 24, 1980, and it was here that he lived, in a humble shack across the driveway from the chapel, during the time he was Archbishop of San Salvador. Romero’s living quarters now are a museum, where visitors can get an intimate sense of the everyday life of this martyr and saint. “His rooms contain many personal possessions, such as clothing, books, official and unofficial papers, photographs and most importantly, the vestments and clothes he was wearing when he was shot.” (Stonyhurst Curator visits San Salvador to help conserve martyr's relics, Stonyhurst College Website, October 2007.)

Archbishop Romero lived on the grounds of Hospitalito from the start of his archbishopric, and he started to live in the small shack seen today since his 60th birthday, August 15, 1977, when he ordered the Archbishop’s Palace to be turned into a cafeteria for priests. The hospital had been instituted for the care of impoverished cancer patients who would otherwise be left on the street. (Divine Providence Web Site.) It has a capacity for 120 patients. Romero maintained a friendship with the hospital from its foundation in 1966, when he was a priest in San Miguel. From time to time, he would come say Mass for the patients and the nuns who ran the hospital. When he was ordained a bishop in 1970, he arranged for the collection from his ordination mass to be donated to the Hospitalito. When he was Bishop of Santiago de Maria (1974-1977), he began to be lodged at Hospitalito whenever he visited the capital. At this time, he assumed the role of chaplain to the nuns, and he visited them to dine and pray with them. (John A. Donaghy, Romero’s Legacy in Context, unpublished paper, abstract available at AAR Abstracts, November 19-22, 2005.)

Romero himself christened the Chapel at the hospital. “On July, 16 1974, in a solemn ceremony,” Sister Luz Isabel Cueva recalled, “Monsignor Romero consecrated the Expiatory Temple of the Divine Providence Hospital with oil -- and on March 24, 1980, he consecrated that same temple ... with his own blood, which he offered to God to defend his people, whom he loved so much.” (Las hermanas del Hospitalito recuerdan a Monseñor [The Sisters of Hospitalito Remember Monseñor], Carta a las Iglesias, Year XX, Nº.443-444, February 1-29, 2000.) After Romero was appointed archbishop, the nuns had the small house built for him so that he could be more comfortable there. They gave him the keys as a birthday present for his 60th birthday, with all the staff and patients looking on. They turned down his intentions to pay them, but from time to time he gave them money. When he won a peace prize in 1980, he gave the entire award of $10,000 to the nuns for the hospital, that they used to start an orphanage for the children of the cancer patients. (Josué Parada, El último legado de Monseñor Romero [Archbishop Romero’s final legacy], DIARIO CO-LATINO, March 24, 2010.)

While he lived there, Romero regularly observed a “Holy Hour” in the Hospital Chapel, “which he did with a lot of fervor, eloquence and profundity,” according to Sister Luz Isabel Cueva, who was the Superior of the nuns. “He had the gift of the Word,” said Sister Luz Isabel, “that is why many people would come to hear him with joy.” (Cartas, supra.) Sister Luz Isabel recalled that, after or before the Holy Hour, Romero would go visit the patients and he would say to them, “You are the Suffering Christ and your bed is the Cross.” (Id.) Among the few guests whom Archbishop Romero entertained at Hospitalito was Cardinal Aloíso Lorscheider of Brazil, who turned down lodging with a wealthy Catholic patron to stay with Romero.

After his martyrdom, the nuns hoped that Archbishop Romero would be buried in the hospital grounds, but it was decided that he belonged to the entire nation and that it would be better to inter him in the Metropolitan Cathedral. A plaque near the spot where he was felled reads, “Archbishop Romero sacrificed his life to God for his people at this Altar.” In 1996, the miraculous testimonies left on his Cathedral grave by the faithful were set on a wall of Archbishop Romero’s shack as testimonies to his sainthood. Among the thousands of visitors to Hospitalito, there have been cardinals and statesmen and other luminaries, including Pres. Fernando Lugo of Paraguay and Mother Teresa. The Hospital and its Chapel have become monuments to Romero’s solidarity with the poor, which he expressed by choosing such a modest residence; of his martyrdom, because he died there; and of his intense spirituality, which he practiced there.

MONS. ROMERO EN BARCELONA

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En mayo de 1979, Mons. Romero pasó 52 horas en España, pasando por los sitios nativos del Padre Francisco Coll y Guitart después de su beatificación en Roma por el Papa Juan Pablo II, a la cual Romero asistió por invitación de las Dominicas de la Anunciata, orden religiosa fundada por el P. Coll. Entre el 9 y el 11 de mayo, Mons. Romero pasó por Barcelona, visitó el municipio de Vic, fue al monasterio de Montserrat, y luego se trasladó a Madrid para salir de regreso a El Salvador.

El día en que Mons. Romero llegó a Barcelona había estado en Roma, visitando las criptas de los papas. “Junto a la tumba de San Pío X, oré intensamente,” escribe en su diario, “teniendo en cuenta todos los intercesores que significan para mí, sobre todo, los sepulcros de San Pedro y de los últimos papas.” (Su Diario, Miércoles 9 de mayo de 1979.) Todo el recorrido sería un peregrinaje. El Papa Benedicto XVI, visitando Barcelona en el 2010 explica la peregrinación diciendo que, “En ocasiones hay que salir de la vida cotidiana, del mundo de lo útil, del utilitarismo, para ponerse verdaderamente en camino hacia la trascendencia, trascenderse a sí mismo y la vida cotidiana.” (Respuestas de Benedicto XVI a los periodistas.)

Para Romero en 1979, habían elementos de esta separación de “la vida cotidiana”, y de la realidad intensa que estaba viviendo. Al mismo tiempo, Mons. Romero no tenía un refugio para olvidar sus deberes, y las grandes responsabilidades de su ministerio. Antes de aterrizar en Barcelona, había sido notificado de la Masacre de la Catedral, como ahora se conoce el incidente en que 24 personas fueron acribilladas en las gradas de la Catedral Metropolitana de San Salvador mientras Romero se encontraba afuera del país. (Ver video informe.) Durante su peregrinaje por España, Mons. Romero trataría de poner en equilibrio su búsqueda de la “trascendencia” y la reflexión con la necesidad de estar a costas de la realidad de su país lejano.

Mons. Romero comenzó en Barcelona: “me condujeron con un taxi ... por todas las calles principales de Barcelona, principalmente, junto a la iglesia de la Sagrada Familia.” (Diario, Id.) El siguiente día, Mons. Romero visitó la Catedral de Vic. “Después tuve la dicha de ir a visitar la tumba del padre Antonio María Claret, fundador de los claretianos.” (Diario, jueves 10 de mayo.) “Para mí significa mucho esta población de Vich”, comentaba en su Diario, “ya que aquí están los orígenes del padre Claret, cuyos misioneros inspiraron mis primeros años de seminario”. (Id.) En la tumba, Mons. Romero se encontró con una imagen del P. Claret y sus compañeros: “nombres que yo conocí desde mis primeros años de seminario”. (Id.)

La siguiente parada en el peregrinaje sería Gombrèn, el pueblo donde nació el padre Francisco Coll, el mismo que recién había sido beatificado. “Fui también a visitar la iglesia donde fue bautizado”, indica en su Diario, “y al regresar, celebré la misa en la capillita que abarca la casita primitiva del padre Coll, junto con cuatro religiosas”. (Id.) Pero era imposible no pensar en la grave situación de su rebaño: “tuve una Eucaristía muy íntima evocando las grandes necesidades de mi país”. (Id.) Debe haber sido una plegaria muy singular: “Con las religiosas hemos pedido mucho para que nuestra vida de la Iglesia y del país encuentren una solución conforme al corazón de Dios”. (Id.)

El siguiente día, Mons. Romero vuelve a celebrar una misa con las monjas que le daban hospedaje: “en la capilla de las hermanas ancianitas y enfermas, donde les invité a unirse en oración con las necesidades de la Iglesia y que eran una fuerza muy grande para la Iglesia universal”. (Id.) Después de esa misa, seguía el recorrido: “pasamos muy cerca de la cueva de Manresa donde San Ignacio hizo sus ejercicios espirituales y escribió el libro famoso de los ejercicios”. (Id.) Otra vez, Mons. Romero pasaba por un lugar con significado importante para su propia espiritualidad. Los ejercicios espirituales de San Ignacio habían sido parte de su devoción y su lema episcopal, “Sentir Con La Iglesia”, se deriva de los ejercicios.

La última estación de su peregrinaje por Cataluña sería el monasterio de Montserrat, ubicado en las alturas de una montaña rocosa donde ha existido una comunidad monástica desde el año 1011. “Era la hora en que los monjes benedictinos se preparaban para cantar su misa de la abadía, en catalán, pero con una piedad y un ritmo gregoriano verdaderamente emocionantes”. (Id.) En el santuario, ubicado con vistas espectaculares de los precipicios de la montaña se custodia una importante imagen, la Virgen de Montserrat. Afuera del templo hay altares con miles de velas que celebran los títulos de la Virgen: Reina de los Ángeles, Reina de todos los Santos, Reina de los Mártires, Reina de la Paz, etc. Mons. Romero se detuvo a rezarle un Rosario.

En su exhortación final, Mons. Romero instó a España a vivir su “gran misión de Iglesia” y a luchar contra la “indiferencia” o el “desconocimiento” sobre los problemas de América Latina. (Id.) Afortunadamente, su súplica fue atendida: desde 1983 funciona en Barcelona un Comité Óscar Romero, y decenas de otros comités existen en varias otras ciudades españolas, inspirados en valores de justicia, solidaridad y fraternidad cristiana. Segun el sitio web de los Comites, “Organizan viajes solidarios a Latinoamérica y Jornadas de Reflexión sobre temas específicos. Publican libros y otros materiales en apoyo a su labor”. En fin, atienden al llamamiento que hizo Mons. Romero de llevar “misión de Iglesia”.

ROMERO IN ART

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Over the years, Archbishop Romero has inspired artists to produce works of art that pay tribute to Romero's life, commitment to the poor, and martyrdom. These works, in turn, can help us to appreciate dimensions of Romero's legacy and gain insights into Romero as only art can orient emotion and intellect. The ten artworks selected here do that very well.

 

1. Romero, the 1989 film. Written by John Sacret Young (The West Wing), directed by John Duigan (Wide Sargasso Sea) and starring Raul Julia (Kiss of the Spider Woman) as Archbishop Romero. Released within a decade of Romero's death, this first major motion picture financed by the Catholic Church brought (and continues to bring) the story of Romero to a worldwide audience. It is a great tool to build a Romero discussion around. Watch the trailer here.

 

2. Statue of Óscar Romero in the West Facade of Westminster Abbey, London. Sculptor: John Roberts. Unveiled in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1998, the statue fills a niche that had been empty since it was created during an addition to the Abbey in 1745 (the Abbey itself dates back to the year 960). Members of Romero's family were invited to the unveiling. Romero was one of 10 martyrs of the 20th Century selected for inclusion, along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Maximilian Kolbe, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and others. Romero occupies a central place and was singled out to Pope Benedict XVI during his 2010 visit. You can read about it at the Abbey's web site.

 

3. Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga's poem "San Romero de América" ("Saint Romero of the Americas"). The title itself became a slogan promoting Romero as a popular hero-saint among the masses, and the pick-up-and-go portability of the poem make it easy to propagate, especially in the era of emails, list-servs, and socially conscious groups and chat rooms. Casaldáliga opens with an allusion to the Angelus, ("On the eve, the Angel of the Lord announced" -- also a reference to the fact that Romero was assassinated on the Eve of the Feast of the Annunciation) and he closes with the line, "Saint Romero of America, our pastor and martyr/No one will silence your final homily!" Read an English translation of the poem here. Hear a dramatic reading of the Spanish verse here.

 

4. The Catafalque over Romero's Tomb in the Crypt of the Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador. Sculptor: Paolo Borghi. Unveiled in March 2005 for the 25th Anniversary of Romero's martyrdom, it was clearly intended to coincide with Romero's beatification, which was thought to be imminent at the time. When the catalque was made public, Romero's grave was moved to a point immediately beneath the Cathedral's main altar and dome. The bronze sculpture was donated by the community of San Egidio in Italy and sculpted by Italian artist Paolo Borghi. It shows Romero guarded by the Four Evangelists as he "sleeps the sleep of the just." Read more about the Tomb of Archbishop Romero here.

 

5. Icon of Óscar Romero by Brother Robert Lentz (OFM). Like Casaldáliga's calling him "San Romero," Brother Robert's irreverent halo cut a striking figure in the public imagination, and the substitution of military helicopters for the customary angels behind this modern saint also commingled traditional spirituality with a gritty, modern reality -- a bit like Leonardo DiCaprio's Romeo + Juliet (1996). Created in 1987, Brother Robert's icon harkens back to the ancient hagiography of Byzantine art. Read more about Brother Robert and his icon here.

 

6. The song "Homenaje a Monseñor Romero" by Alvar Castillo, of Yolocamba I Ta. Like poems, songs are made for the masses, and a saint that appeals to the masses also has inspired plenty of popular songs, especially in El Salvador. The best of these proclaims: "Monseñor, today you live in the heart of the People who loved you so well." But, in a prickly turn, the lyric goes on, "Monseñor, your truth compels us march to the final victory." The lyric reads like a battle hymn, and it unabashedly refers to Romero as a "symbol of rebellion." Like the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," this campaign ballad captures a spirit of resistance -- this one, inspired by Archbishop Romero's principled stands and makes Romero accessible to the youth. You can hear a recording of the song in this video slide show. You can find the lyrics on the Yolocamba I Ta web site.

 

7. Statue of Óscar Romero at San Salvador's Plaza de las Américas. Sculptor: Napoleón Alberto Romualdo.  Small by comparison to the nearby landmark Divino Salvador del Mundo (Divine Savior of the World) monument, the Romero statute in West San Salvador is the principal Romero monument in the martyr's native country. Although the monument is modest in scale, there is something culturally audacious about a Romero statue in San Salvador's most affluent district, Colonia Escalón, adjacent to the most iconic Salvadoran monument, the Divine Savior. In addition to the candlelight procession honoring Romero every year, many political marches originate here, keeping Archbishop Romero as much in the center of national spectacle as he was when he was living. See a night time view of the statue with the Divine Savior in the background, here.

 

8. Icon of the Martyrs and witnesses to Faith of the twentieth century at the Basilica of St. Bartholomew in Rome. The icon was commissioned by an ecumenical commission appointed by Pope John Paul II after the year 2000 Jubilee, and is styled based on motifs from the book of Revelation. Like the statues at Westminster Abbey, the icon depicts martyrs from different Christian denominations. Archbishop Romero is depicted in the bottom right hand corner, standing over a Eucharistic table while soldiers prepare to fire at him. At this time, the painting is the only authorized iconic depiction of Romero in a Catholic church. Pope Benedict paid tribute during a visit in 2008. You can see an image of the icon here.

 

9. Romero, The Musical, by George Daly and Liam Bauress. Created in 1982, Romero, The Musical predates Romero, the movie, and most of the other Romero-inspired artworks you likely will find. The London première in September 2009 sold out. Today, Romero, The Musical is up to date, with a web site through which the creators want to transmit their work to the next generation, providing their librettos and "everything you need to put on a performance of Romero" to schools and theater groups all over the world. You can find the libretto, the director's script, the vocal score and even a DVD of the show at The Musical's web site.

 

10. The 'Giant Painting' of Archbishop Romero (PHOTO). This is a great piece (literally), with a great story behind it. In 2005, a group of Salvadoran youths set out to paint the largest painting of Archbishop Romero in the world. They delivered, producing a 60 foot wide and 90 foot tall image of Romero that covered the entire facade of the San Salvador Metropolitan Cathedral when it hung there for the 25th Anniversary of Romero's martyrdom. The kids were so pleased with their work that they wanted to ship it to Cologne, Germany, for the Church's annual World Youth Day. Red tape and budget limitations conspired against them, and today the largest Romero painting is somewhere about 5 miles away from Cologne, the closest it got to world Youth Day, folded up and waiting to be rescued. You can read about the Giant Painting, and about how to help to salvage it at the artists' web site (Spanish).

 

See also:

• San Salvador Mural
• Duane W. Krohnke's blog has entries on Romero in art, Romero in books and Romero on film.
• Catalog of Romero paintings from March 2011 exhibit

CREDITS FOR SOME IMAGES POSTED IN «SUPER MARTYRIO» INVOKING THE FAIR USE DOCTRINE:

Sunday, December 29, 2013:
“Archbishop Romero and the volcano,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit to: Mike Clemente, http://mikeclementte.tumblr.com/

Friday, December 27, 2013:
“Top 10 stories about Óscar Romero in 2013,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit to: RomeReports.com.

Friday, December 20, 2013
“Christmas with the poor,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit to: Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas", Cartas a las Iglesias.

Saturday, December 07, 2013
“Waiting for Godot … ’s canonization,” credit to come.

Monday, December 02, 2013
“Abp. Romero and the Angelus,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit to: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

Friday, November 29, 2013
“The Pope is not a Marxist,” credit: Papists http://www.flickr.com/photos/26114656@N08/sets/72157633013053257/with/8564061683/

Monday, November 25, 2013
“From Archbishop Romero’s last pastoral letter to «Evangelii Gaudium»,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit to: Servicios Pastorales, http://www.scribd.com/salvacham

Saturday, November 23, 2013
“Óscar Romero statue unveiled in L.A.,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit to come.

Friday, November 22, 2013
“Clear path for Archbishop Romero at the CCS,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, features a photo, credit to come.

Monday, November 18, 2013
“Targeting the Faith,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, features images, credit to come.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
“Defending Maradiaga,” credit to come.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013
“Turning the tables on Wojtyla & Romero,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit: Oficina de Canonización de la Arquidiócesis de San Salvador.

Monday, November 11, 2013
“The ‘Frankies’,” credit: Catholic Spirituality Blogs Network .

Wednesday, November 06, 2013
“Quiz: Ratzinger or Romero?,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit to come.

Saturday, November 02, 2013
“El día de los muertos,” credit: EL FARO/Blanche Petrich.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013
“Archbishop Romero & All The Saints,” credit: Frederick Meza/EL FARO.
“Mons. Romero y Todos los Santos,” credit: Diario Colatino, Mar 21, 2011.
“Mons. Romero e Tutti i Santi,” credit: Frederick Meza/EL FARO.

Saturday, October 26, 2013
“El Pdte. Funes y Mons. Romero (Opinión),” credit to come.

Friday, October 25, 2013
“Irish president visits Archb. Romero’s grave,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit: Simon Carswell and the Office of the President of Ireland.

Thursday, October 24, 2013
“Answering a critic,” credit to come.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013
“Francis: Romero beatification “is on the right path”,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit: President of the Central American Parliament and Diario CoLatino.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013
“Archb. Romero in the Peripheries,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit: Fundación Romero.

Thursday, October 17, 2013
“The Church As Tree,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit: Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America.

Thursday, October 10, 2013
“Overcomplicating Óscar Romero,” credit: www.newmancentre.org
“Vincenzo Paglia in the crosshairs,” credit to come.
“Mons. Paglia en las miras,” credit to come.
“Paglia nel mirino,” credit to come.

Thursday, October 03, 2013
“The Apostle of Human Rights,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit to come.

Monday, September 30, 2013
“Roncalli & Wojtyla,” credit to come.

Saturday, September 21, 2013
“London Cathedral inaugurates “Romero Space”,” and its Spanish/Italian counterparts, credit: Southwark Archdiocese Flickr account.

Friday, September 20, 2013
“The Week In Review,” and its Spanish counterpart, credit: Vatican Radio.
“La rassegna settimanale,” credit: the Archbishop Romero Trust.
“The Hermeneutic of Mercy,” credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images.

Sunday, September 15, 2013
“Romero in the Exaltation of the Cross,” credit: the Archbishop Romero Trust.
“Romero en la Exaltación de la Cruz,” credit to come.
“Romero nella Esaltazione della Croce,” credit Roberto Valencia, CAFOD (http://cafodwestminster.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/romero.png).