Pope Francis told the President of the Central American Parliament
(Parlacen), Leonel Bucaro, that the cause of beatification for Archbishop Óscar A. Romero “is on the right path” according to a (Spanish language) press release issued by
the Central American parliamentarian (of Salvadoran nationality) after a conversation
with the pontiff during his general audience in St. Peter's Square on
Wednesday, October 23, 2013.
“During the encounter,
President Bucaro took the opportunity to ask his Holiness Pope Francis to
expedite the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero,” the
statement said. The Pope “told him that it
is on the right path.” The meeting was the latest of several occasions in which the Holy Father has been lobbied about the Romero case after the
ambassador and the First Lady of El Salvador did so on March 19, the Anglican
Bishop John Sentamu on March 20, Argentine Nobel laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel
on March 21 and June 24, and the President of El Salvador on May 23—among others.
In recent statements,
the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop
Gerhard Ludwig Müller indicated that there are no doctrinal reservations
against the beatification and that he expected it would be forthcoming.
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